Gurney's Montauk

Gurney’s turns 100 in 2026, and it is still the only Montauk resort where the dinner tables and the surf sit at roughly the same elevation. The drive out Old Montauk Highway is the price of admission, past the point where the road stops pretending to be flat. What you get at the end of it is 2,000 feet of private beach and a room block deep enough that nobody has to leave.

Six rooms, and which one is actually the wedding room

Gurney’s publishes a capacity sheet for every event space, which is more than most of Montauk bothers to do. The Spa Deck is the big one: 420 on banquet rounds, 500 for cocktails, four seating areas divided by pergolas, and their own note that it can be tented and heated. The Great Hall does 225 on rounds indoors and 210 for cocktails. Top Deck seats 170. The Beach Club takes 200, and the resort’s copy calls it “the only on-the-beach, beside-the-ocean dining experience in the Hamptons.” Those capacity figures are theirs, on their own weddings pages.

The Dune Lounge is the one to read twice. Gurney’s own chart gives it 80 on banquet rounds against a 130 maximum. That is a cocktail-hour and rehearsal-dinner room, not a reception room, and the ceiling number tells you why before anyone has to say it out loud.

What the 2026 package actually says

Gurney’s hosts a 2026 Montauk wedding package PDF on its own server, and it is worth reading before anyone quotes you anything. The reception is four hours. Cocktail hour is one, with six passed hors d’oeuvres and two stations. Dinner is a plated appetizer, a choice of three entrées, and a plated dessert. A five-hour deluxe open bar is included, with named pours rather than a vague “premium” line: Tito’s, Botanist, Mount Gay, Espolón, Maker’s Mark, Johnnie Walker Black.

The two real prices in the document are the bar extensions. Additional hours run “$20 per person for each additional hour.” Moving up to the luxury bar is “$20 per person to upgrade to this package for 5 hours,” then “$15 per person for each additional hour.” The package also carries the bridal suite from 8am until midnight and a complimentary oceanfront king room for the wedding night.

What the PDF does not carry is a per-head number or a food-and-beverage minimum. It hands you a named catering contact for “pricing inquiries and date availability” instead. So the minimum is a conversation, and the conversation moves with the month. Ask for the minimum in writing before you ask about menus, and run it through our cost calculator with tax and service charge on top.

A hundred years of this

Maude Gurney opened a 20-room inn on this land in 1926, bought from Carl Fisher’s Montauk Beach Development Corporation. Nick Monte bought it from her in 1956 for $200,000 and added the seawater spa in 1979. The property went co-op in 1982 and was bought by investor George Filopoulos in 2013. Those figures come from Social Life Magazine’s centennial history, not from the resort.

Today it is 158 rooms, suites and beachfront cottages, and a 30,000 square foot spa, at 290 Old Montauk Highway. The seawater pool the whole place was built around is still the reason a lot of guests book the extra night.

Two things to sort out early

Everyone stays over. That is the real math of a Montauk wedding and the part couples consistently underestimate. Get the room-block terms and the attrition clause at the same time you get the food minimum, because a 120-guest wedding out here is also a 120-guest hotel booking, in a market where a summer Saturday room is not cheap.

And confirm which Gurney’s you are on the phone with. The brand also runs a Newport, Rhode Island property, and directory listings, review sites and even some vendor pages mix the two constantly. Everything on this page is Montauk.