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Twelve weddings a year is the cap Sannino Vineyard sets for itself, and 125 guests is the ceiling on each one. The Cutchogue winery also does something rare on the North Fork, which is print its rate card. Venue rental is $5,000 from 1 December to 31 March, $7,000 from 1 April to 31 May, and $9,000 from 1 June to 30 November, before New York State sales tax. Hold the ceremony on site and a further 10 percent of the site fee is added. Catering is not included at any of those prices.
This is the clearest published pricing in the batch and it is all first party. The trap is reading the site fee as the cost of the wedding, when catering, rentals and any tent sit entirely outside it. Price a caterer for 125 people before you decide what $9,000 in September really represents.
We read the winery's wedding page, its policies and prices page, its private gatherings page and its The Knot listing, on 10 September 2026. 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.
Only twelve wedding dates are released a year, and the bed and breakfast does not accept children under 16, which matters if guests plan to stay on site.
Three seasonal tiers sit on the winery's own wedding page. Winter dates from 1 December to 31 March are $5,000. Spring dates from 1 April to 31 May are $7,000. Summer and fall dates from 1 June to 30 November are $9,000. Add 10 percent of that fee if you also hold the ceremony on the property, and sales tax sits on top of everything.
That is the rental only. Catering, rentals, any tent and every vendor are yours to arrange and pay for separately. A $9,000 September Saturday is therefore the beginning of the number and not the end of it.
The winery says it offers special pricing on weekdays and on selected holidays without publishing the amounts. Worth an email if your date is movable, because a weekday rate that exists and is never printed is exactly the sort of thing that goes unasked for.
Wine must be Sannino's and must be bought through the winery. Bottles come at 20 percent off, or 30 percent off for wine club members. That is a real discount and it is also a closed market, so build the wine cost into your comparison rather than assuming a case price from somewhere else.
Any outside alcohol requires your caterer to hold a liquor license and liability insurance. Every vendor needs pre approval from the winery, and music requires pre approval too.
Read together, those rules say the venue is open about who cooks and closed about what is poured. For a couple who care more about their caterer than their wine list, that is a good trade. For the reverse, it is not.
A reception without a ceremony runs 6pm to 11pm, which is five hours. With a ceremony it runs 5pm to 11pm, which is six. Thirty minutes of setup before and breakdown after are included in both.
Those are published times, not guidelines, and they set your whole timeline. An 11pm end on the North Fork is generous by local standards. A 5pm start, on the other hand, means photographs happen in whatever light June or October gives you that day.
Thirty minutes of breakdown is tight for a full outside caterer with rentals. Ask what a late strike costs and whether the crew can return the following morning.
The rental is the full venue: the Tasting House, the Members Lounges and the Outdoor Gardens. Maximum is 125 guests. The winery holds only twelve weddings a year in total, which is both the reason it can promise exclusive use and the reason dates go early.
No food and beverage minimum is published, because there is no house catering to apply one to. No service charge or administrative fee is published either. The site fee is stated to exclude New York State sales tax, and that is the only tax note given.
No rain plan is published, and tents are not included in the rental. With a 125 guest cap and a tasting house on site, the indoor fallback is more plausible here than at most outdoor venues, but the winery does not commit to it in writing. Get that commitment.
There are five Tuscan themed guest rooms plus a private bridal suite on the property, and the winery publishes its 2026 accommodation rates on a policies page that was current when we read it on 10 September 2026.
One rule catches people out. The bed and breakfast does not accept children under 16. If cousins with toddlers were planning to stay where the wedding is, they cannot, and that is worth knowing before you send a save the date with a lodging block attached.
The wine club exists, but it only affects the bottle discount. Membership has nothing to do with the right to book this venue. Anyone can.
The gap between a winter date and a summer or fall one is the difference between $5,000 and $9,000, and the winery publishes both ends of it. A January wedding is charged at the $5,000 tier. The same wedding in September falls in the $9,000 tier, plus another 10 percent if the ceremony is on site.
On the North Fork the winter option is genuinely usable. The Tasting House is indoors, the cap is 125 people, and a date between December and March is the cheapest first party venue price anywhere in this batch.
The catch is what the season does to everything else. Outside caterers, tents and rentals are not automatically cheaper in January, and an outdoor garden in February is a different product from the same garden in June, whatever the rate card says.
So compare like for like. Take the site fee, add the ceremony charge if you want to marry on the property, add sales tax, then add a caterer's quote for your guest count. Set that total against a per head price somewhere with its own kitchen, and only then decide which is expensive.
A Southold house dating to roughly 1765 with a 60 seat restaurant buyout at one end and a 225 person lawn reception at the other.
A 16 room East Hampton hotel whose biggest wedding space is an outdoor garden seating 110, with 48 seated indoors if the weather turns.
A 1959 inn that seats 70 indoors and 125 in the garden, with brunch wedding packages listed from $110 per person on Here Comes The Guide.
A Great Neck hotel that takes weddings from 10 guests up to 200, with 85 rooms upstairs and no per person rate published anywhere.
Five weddings a year, a mandatory 13 room buyout for two nights, and 150 ceremony chairs included, with no published price on either of the inn's two sites.