Majestic Gardens

Eventective says $70 to $125 and The Knot says $10,000

Eventective lists menu pricing of $70 to $125 per person and wedding packages of $3,500 to $6,250 for 50 guests. The Knot lists a $10,000 starting price described as all inclusive, covering ceremony, cocktail hour and reception spaces, food and catering, cakes and desserts, bar and drinks, service staff, rentals and equipment and planning, with couples usually spending $18,500.

Both were fetched on 10 September 2026. They cannot both describe the same package. Eventective's top package for 50 guests is $6,250, which sits well under The Knot's $10,000 floor. The Eventective listing is undated and the venue has been trading since 1995, so a stale figure is the likeliest explanation, and we are recording both rather than choosing.

The venue publishes neither. Nothing here is safe to carry into a budget without a written quote.

The pamphlet is behind a form

There is a wedding pricing page on majesticgardens.com. It offers a free Wedding Pricing Pamphlet described as packed with pricing, packages and amenities, and it requires a form submission. No dollar figure appears on the page itself.

That is a common enough arrangement and it has a predictable effect: the only people who know what this venue costs are the ones already in the sales funnel. For a hall that otherwise publishes a lot about itself, including staff names and tenure, the gate is a choice.

Request the pamphlet, then ask for the effective dates on every figure in it. A pamphlet with no date on it has the same problem as the Eventective listing.

Two follow ups are worth putting in the same email. Whether the quoted figure is per person or a package total, and whether service charge and tax sit inside it or on top. On Long Island those two additions routinely move an all in cost by a fifth, and neither appears anywhere on this venue public record.

The same three people have run weddings here since the 1990s

The About page names Olympia Gouvis heading wedding and event operations since 1998, Elizabeth Padrazo as wedding consultant and maitre d' since 1999, and Demetrios Boulukos as event manager since 2005. The venue opened in 1995 and is family owned and operated.

Staff tenure of that length is a real signal at a catering hall, where the maitre d' is the person who actually determines whether your night runs properly and where turnover is usually high. It also means the person selling you the room is likely to be the person in it on the day, which is not true at most volume operations.

Name checking is easy to do and rarely done. Ask which of the three will be on your date.

150 or 300 plus, and the gap is too wide to guess at

The venue publishes no capacity for any room. The Knot says 300 plus guests. Eventective says 150. That is not a rounding difference, and it is the second place where these two listings contradict each other.

A hall that seats 300 and a hall that seats 150 are different businesses with different room sizes, different kitchens and different prices, so the capacity conflict and the pricing conflict are probably the same error viewed twice. Neither source is the venue.

There are three named spaces: the Grand Ballroom, the Atrium with views over the Mediterranean terrace garden, and the Secret Garden used for ceremonies. None carries a published guest count. If your list is anywhere near 200, get a floor plan with a table layout on it before you go further.

The Secret Garden and the Atrium

The outdoor ceremony space is the Secret Garden. The Atrium is indoors and looks onto the terrace gardens, and the Grand Ballroom handles the reception. On paper that is a full ceremony, cocktail hour and reception sequence on one site, which is what most Suffolk couples are looking for.

No rain plan is published for the Secret Garden. The Atrium and the ballroom are the obvious indoor fallback, and nobody has written down whether moving indoors costs anything or how late the decision can be made. That is the standard Long Island gap and it is worth closing in the contract.

The venue also runs an in house design team producing linens, lighting, draping and themed food stations. That reduces the number of outside vendors you hire, and it usually means their prices are not competitive with an outside rental house. Ask what is included in the package and what the design team charges on top of it, because the answer decides whether the all inclusive framing on The Knot means anything.