A $150 starting price is an hour; a $1,500 one is a shuttle day
Only one operator we checked publishes anything on its own site, and it is a discount rather than a rate. Tran-Star Executive Transportation quotes hourly rates by phone and takes 10% off the base rate for online booking. Its rate includes everything except parking and tolls. M&V Limousines in Commack shows rates only through a separate showroom link. Everyone else is a WeddingWire figure. Sir Oliver Limousine in Bohemia and Gold Star Limousine in West Babylon both start at $150 there. Smart Choice Transportation in Port Jefferson Station starts at $395 and NY Global in Valley Stream at $350. Winston Transportation in Medford shows $500, while Camelot Specialty Limos in Lindenhurst and Azure Limousine in Saint James both show $750. Hamptons Leisure Limo in Southampton is $900 and PJ Luxury Rentals is $1,000. Hampton Jitney, the East End guest shuttle standard, starts at $1,500. LI VINO TOURS in Babylon shows $75, and its listed specialty is winery tours.
For context, The Knot's 2026 study puts the national transportation average at $1,100, and The Wedding Report's 75 guest Long Island estimate puts it at $626 to $765. Neither number tells you the hours. Ask every operator for the total for your schedule, then compare.
The exact vehicle in writing, with the DOT number to match
A good company writes the year, make and seated capacity of the exact vehicle into the contract, where a bad one writes 'a stretch limo' and nothing else. Sir Oliver lists a 1940 Cadillac Fleetwood, a 1960 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, a 14 passenger Sprinter and shuttles from 32 to 47 passengers. Camelot Specialty Limos runs a 1938 Cadillac and a Rolls-Royce Phantom. Tran-Star goes from a 3 passenger sedan to a 54 passenger coach and keeps a 1960 Bentley S2. All Star Limousine, founded 1982, replaces its 100 plus vehicle fleet annually and runs GPS and DriveCam in the cars from a 40,000 square foot Lindenhurst facility. Ask to see the car.
Then ask for the DOT number and the TLC or DMV license, and get a copy of the commercial insurance certificate. Long Island has a specific and painful limousine safety history, and the paperwork is the only thing that separates a licensed carrier from a man with a van. A good dispatcher also plans the route and stages the vehicle early, with a buffer built into the schedule. A bad one quotes a low hourly and bills from the moment the car leaves the depot.
Garage to garage billing and the 18 to 20% added at signing
Saturday bookings typically carry a 4 to 5 hour minimum. Many contracts bill garage to garage, so the clock can start when the car leaves the depot rather than when it reaches your door. An automatic gratuity of 18 to 20% is near universal and usually appears at contract, after the quote. Fuel surcharge, tolls and parking are extra; Tran-Star says so on its own site. Overtime is often billed at a higher rate than the base hour, so get that number in writing. Confirm that capacity means seated capacity, because party bus math sometimes counts standing room. Trolleys and vintage cars have no air conditioning and no heat and break down more often, so ask what the backup vehicle is before you book M&V's 29 passenger trolley or anyone's 1938 Cadillac.
Saturday on the LIE and the East End shuttle problem
The real risk to a Long Island wedding timeline is traffic. Saturday afternoons on the LIE and Sunrise Highway, and summer weekends east of Riverhead, eat buffers. Guest shuttles are the smartest money in this category and the item couples forget until a month out. Hampton Jitney's $1,500 WeddingWire starting price is the East End reference point. North Country Limousine in Selden runs a 32 passenger party bus with 24 hour dispatch and lists East End wine tours as a specialty.
Sir Oliver names eight Long Island venues that recommend it, including Watermill Caterers and Crest Hollow Country Club, and All Star names Oheka Castle and Westbury Manor among the venues it serves. East Hampton Town's special event code requires residential permit applications to state anticipated vehicle counts and off site parking locations, so a shuttle plan is part of the paperwork out there. The Town also charges a traffic control fee when the Chief of Police decides officers are needed.
What does a wedding limo cost on Long Island?
On WeddingWire, Long Island starting prices run $75 to $1,500, but most are hourly rates with a 4 to 5 hour Saturday minimum. The Knot shows no prices for its 57 Long Island transportation listings. Ask for the total for your hours, then add the automatic gratuity of 18 to 20%, tolls and parking.
Do I need a guest shuttle?
You probably do if the ceremony and reception are in different places, or if the venue is east of Riverhead. Hampton Jitney starts at $1,500 on WeddingWire and is the East End standard. North Country in Selden and Sir Oliver in Bohemia run 32 to 47 passenger buses, and East Hampton Town's permit application asks for your vehicle counts and off site parking plan.
What should the contract say about the vehicle?
It should name the year, the make and the seated capacity, plus a backup vehicle. Sir Oliver, Camelot and Tran-Star all publish specific vintage cars, which is a good sign. Vintage cars and trolleys have no air conditioning or heat and break down more often, so the backup matters more than the photo.
How is garage to garage billing different?
The clock starts when the car leaves the depot, not when it arrives at your house. On a Saturday from Lindenhurst to Manhasset that can add real time. Tran-Star states its rate includes everything except parking and tolls; ask every other operator where their clock starts and what overtime costs.
Facts read from each vendor’s own site and, where noted, its The Knot or WeddingWire listing, on 3 September 2026. Prices marked “on their site” are first party; anything marked “on The Knot” or “on WeddingWire” is marketplace sourced and may have changed. Run a Long Island transportation company business? Claim or correct a listing, free.
