The name on this building has changed twice in eight years, which matters more than it sounds. It is the 1928 resort on Star Island in Lake Montauk, and from 2018 to 2022 it traded as Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina. Same road, different company, and a lot of listings still have it wrong. The harbor is the reason to book it. Boats in every frame, nobody arranging them.
Somewhere between a $38,500 minimum and a $50,000 starting total is a real number, and the club's own July 2026 menu declines to print it. Zola's per person line reads as a data entry error and should not be used. Every marketplace agrees this is one of the most expensive rooms on the East End and none of them agrees on the corkage or vendor rules. Ask what the package minimum covers in guests and hours, and ask whether the peak season starts in May or June, since two listings disagree.
We read the club's weddings page and its July 2026 wedding menu PDF, then The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, PartySlate, Eventective and a 2024 reopening press release. Checked September 2026. First party means the venue’s own site or rate card; marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The resort reopened in June 2024 under Proper Hospitality after a multimillion dollar renovation, and Zola's $38,499 per person line appears to be a data error.
Investors bought the property in 2013 and rebranded it Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina in 2018. Safe Harbor Marinas bought it in July 2022, at a figure Behind the Hedges reported as $149.4 million, and restored the original Montauk Yacht Club name when it reopened after roughly nine months of work. Proper Hospitality took over the hotel operation after that. Three operators in a decade is not a red flag on its own, but it does mean the person who signs your contract may not be the person who runs your day.
The published record also disagrees with itself on the parcel. The East Hampton Press calls it a 35-acre property; Behind the Hedges calls it 16 acres on Star Island. We cannot reconcile those, so we are not carrying an acreage in the fact table at all.
Their own gatherings page puts capacities on most of it. Waterfront Ballroom: “up to 160 for a seated dinner, 200 for ceremonies, or 250 for cocktails.” Sunset Pier, 160. Cottage Lawn, 500. Lighthouse Fire Pits, 140. North Courtyard, 150. Pool Patio and Lighthouse TWO, 60 apiece. There is also a Great Lawn over the marina with no published number on it.
Then the same page says they host weddings of “approximately 50 to 300 guests.” Both statements are theirs. The honest read is that the Cottage Lawn will hold 500 bodies while the operation is staffed and permitted to run 300. Ask which of those two numbers the catering director will actually sign for on your date, and get it before you build a guest list around the lawn.
The hotel side is 106 waterfront rooms and suites plus five 1928 cottages, so an out-of-town crowd sleeps where it drinks, which on Montauk roads at midnight is not a small thing. The marina next door takes wet slips from 12 feet to 300, with a 45-foot maximum beam and 12 feet of draft.
That working dock is the background of your ceremony photos and it is also your traffic. Star Island Road on a July Saturday is busy in both directions. The upside: this is the one Long Island wedding venue where a guest asking to arrive by boat is a routine request rather than a favor.
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