Nassau is the close-in county, the western half, dense and suburban and a short hop from the city without ever going into it. If your people are mostly in Nassau or over the line in Queens, this is how you keep everybody near home.
The county with the halls, the mansions and the traffic. Facts first, no paid rankings. Claim your listing free.
Marble, chandeliers, and a Great Neck name every Long Island family knows.
All-inclusive Woodbury mainstay with an inn on the property for the out-of-towners.
Country club name, catering hall machine, with grounds built for photos.
Package-and-production fixture with a serious sweet 16 game.
Baldwin hall overlooking Milburn Pond, a South Shore family staple.
Massapequa mansion with the bay at the back door.
Manor house on Jericho Turnpike with gardens that do half the decorating.
Colonial-era inn and village that has hosted every kind of family party for generations.
White-glove hotel wedding in the middle of Garden City.
Restored New Hyde Park landmark with ballrooms that photograph like a mansion.
Gold Coast event house on the old du Pont estate, run like a luxury hall.
The old Guggenheim castles on the Sound, booked park-style with approved caterers.
State arboretum with a Tudor hall in the middle, permits and caterers required.
Westbury House and its famous gardens, the raw-estate route with the biggest payoff.
Old-line private club on a Gold Coast estate; ask about sponsorship on the first call.
Private Sound beach in Bayville, ceremony on the sand and cocktail hour up the steps.
Planes and rockets over the cocktail hour in Garden City.
A restored 19th-century village, barns, greens, and all.
It goes town by town, and each one has its own reputation. Great Neck, where Leonard's has been throwing grand weddings since your grandparents' day. Baldwin, home of the Coral House on the water. Massapequa for the Riviera Waterfront Mansion. Old Westbury, where De Seversky sits on the old du Pont estate, now the NYIT campus. Then Glen Cove, Roslyn, Westbury, and Woodbury, towns that have been marrying off families for generations, and it shows in the rooms.
Nassau runs a little richer than the mid-Suffolk halls, and part of the bill is just the address. For half the families in the county that trade is worth making. Grandma's ten minutes from the party, and everyone sleeps in their own bed.
Run the guest list before you run the venue list. If half your people are coming from Queens, Brooklyn, or the city, Nassau turns their night into a forty-minute drive instead of a road trip. Nobody negotiates a hotel block, and the older relatives who fade at ten get home while the dance floor is still going. When the list skews old or young or both, keeping the wedding close is the kindest decision on the whole planning sheet.
The Nassau move: every legacy hall keeps a list of dates it's worried about filling this year, so ask for it straight out on the first call. Leonard's and the Coral House would rather cut you a real number than go dark on a Sunday, and that quote beats anything you'll get haggling over a June Saturday. The newer renovated rooms play the same game harder, because they're competing with names your parents recognize, and the discount is how they buy their way into the family story.
Westbury Manor is the lowest: $85 to $171 per guest on Zola, and $95 off peak (January to April) or $118 peak on WeddingWire. The Crescent Beach Club in Bayville is $100 off peak and $125 peak on WeddingWire, or $124 with a $12,500 minimum spend on Zola. The Cradle of Aviation is $110 starting on WeddingWire. The Inn at New Hyde Park has three numbers that disagree: $120 to $130 on WeddingWire and $135 to $165 on Zola, while Wedding Spot has $140 for an off peak Saturday and a $5,000 refundable security deposit.
Jericho Terrace is $129 per guest as a PartySlate estimate with a $13,000 minimum spend; its own 2026 pricing guide sits behind a lead form. Crest Hollow is $100 to $180 on Here Comes The Guide, and the club's FAQ says only that pricing varies. The Muttontown Club is $175 off peak and $225 peak on WeddingWire and $125 off peak on Zola.
The rest are event totals or nothing. Leonard's Palazzo is $12,000 starting on The Knot, WeddingWire and Zola against $14,740 for 100 guests on Wedding Spot. Riviera is $35,000 off peak and $44,000 peak on WeddingWire, before fees and tax, with a 150 guest minimum on its own homepage. The Garden City Hotel is $30,000 reception and $5,000 ceremony starting, and the listing does not say whether that is a room fee or a minimum. The Coral House prints menus without prices, and no marketplace prints a figure for it.
Fox Hollow's FAQ states a 22% facility fee plus sales tax on the per person price, and in the same document says the venue has no service charge. De Seversky Mansion's FAQ states a 21% administrative fee that is not distributed to the service team, with a 100 adult minimum. Leonard's is told two ways: Wedding Spot says service and administrative fees are included in menu packages, and The Knot says starting prices exclude them.
Planting Fields prints ceremonies from $2,500 and receptions from $15,000, catering excluded, with Coe Hall seating 80 for dinner. Old Westbury Gardens prints $1,000 for a ceremony of 50 or fewer in a 9 to 10 AM slot, on a sheet that predates 2026. And Nassau's own count is falling. The state Department of Health recorded 5,748 marriages in 2023, 1,152 fewer than 2022 and flagged provisional, with September the busiest month at 707 ceremonies in 2022.
The administrative fee, as a percentage, and whether any of it reaches the staff. The guest minimum for your day: Fox Hollow's is generally 100 to 120, De Seversky's 100 adults, Riviera's 150, and the Inn at New Hyde Park's is 90 on Wedding Spot and 30 on WeddingWire. How many weddings run at once, because Riviera says one on its own site and Crest Hollow is built for several. The ceremony fee, which runs from $500 at the Cradle to $2,000 at Riviera on WeddingWire. And the end time, since Leonard's goes to 2:30 am on Wedding Spot and the Garden City Hotel publishes none.
The lowest Nassau figure we found: $85 to $171 per guest on Zola and $95 off peak on WeddingWire and The Knot.
WeddingWire $120 to $130, Zola $135 to $165, Wedding Spot $140 for an off peak Saturday, and a $5,000 refundable security deposit.
$100 off peak and $125 peak on WeddingWire, or $124 per person with a $12,500 minimum on Zola.
$110 starting per person and a $750 reception site fee on WeddingWire; the museum names Philip Stone as exclusive caterer.
WeddingWire lists $175 off peak and $225 peak per person against Zola's $125 off peak; the ceremony fee is $1,000 and no membership is required.
Its own FAQ prints the 22% facility fee and a 100 to 120 guest guarantee; WeddingWire and The Knot list $20,000 starting.
First party: a 21% administrative fee and a 100 adult minimum; WeddingWire lists a $7,500 peak reception site fee.
$12,000 starting on The Knot, WeddingWire and Zola against $14,740 for 100 guests on Wedding Spot; the ceremony fee is $1,000.
Four venues, two of them on the Fox Hollow campus, with the 22% facility fee in print.
Leonard’s Palazzo, The Mariner Estate and the Inn at Great Neck, side by side.
A hotel, a private club and an aviation museum. None prints a per person rate.
Of the 164 venues on this site, 29 print a per person rate or a site fee on their own sites. Every figure word for word, in sortable tables.
Ten venues say on their own sites that the caterer is yours to hire. Seven more let you choose from their approved list.
50 venues say it on their own sites, in their own words. 16 more say it only on a marketplace listing.
Eight venues put the rain plan in writing and three include the tent in the fee. Where the indoor room is smaller than the lawn.
Four venues, two of them on the Fox Hollow campus, with the 22% facility fee in print.
Leonard’s Palazzo, The Mariner Estate and the Inn at Great Neck, side by side.
A hotel, a private club and an aviation museum. None prints a per person rate.
Of the 164 venues on this site, 30 print a per person rate or a site fee on their own sites. Every figure word for word, in sortable tables.
Ten venues say on their own sites that the caterer is yours to hire. Seven more let you choose from their approved list.
50 venues say it on their own sites, in their own words. 16 more say it only on a marketplace listing.
Nine venues put the rain plan in writing and three include the tent in the fee. Where the indoor room is smaller than the lawn.