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We could not confirm that Sea Cliff Yacht Club accepts weddings from people who are not members. Its own catering and private parties page lists two rooms, their capacities and an invitation to check availability, and it never says whether an outside booking is allowed or whether a member has to sponsor it. The membership page is about joining, and joining requires sponsorship by two current members in good standing. The Knot lists the club publicly with a $175 per person average and a $129 starting price, and carries no membership caveat at all. Call 516-671-7374 before you plan around any of it.
Before any of these figures matters, the membership question has to be settled, and the club does not settle it anywhere on its site. The Knot lists Sea Cliff publicly with a $175 per person average and a $129 starting price and mentions no membership requirement, which is not the same thing as the club stating that outside weddings are accepted. The $129 is a ceremony starting price and should never be read as a catering rate. Ask on the phone whether a member must sponsor the booking.
We read the club's home page, its catering and private parties page, an older dining catering page, its membership page, the Foodies Cafe LI venue page and The Knot listing. 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.
Member access is unresolved: the club publishes rooms and capacities but never states whether a non member may book a wedding or whether a member must sponsor it, so confirm on 516-671-7374 before planning around this venue.
This is the finding, and it is the reason to read the rest carefully. The catering and private parties page does everything a public venue page does. It names two rooms. It gives four capacity configurations for each. It invites you to contact the club to check availability. It never addresses membership.
The membership page addresses membership, but only in the direction of joining. It describes the club as one of Long Island's oldest and friendliest year round clubs. It states that all prospective members must be sponsored by two current members in good standing. It lists access to the club for private parties as a member benefit. That last line is about members using their own club. It is not a statement that outsiders may book.
We checked the club home page, the catering and private parties page, the older dining catering page, the membership page and the Foodies Cafe LI venue page. None resolves it. So the honest answer for this venue is that the policy is not published, and a phone call to 516-671-7374 is the only way to settle it.
Here is the tension. The Knot carries Sea Cliff Yacht Club as a bookable wedding venue, with a $175 per person figure as its stated average couple spend, a $129 starting price and bar service at $40 per person. Nowhere in that listing is there a note that you must be a member or that a member must sponsor you.
PH Event Group also lists the club as a bookable venue on its own site. Neither of those is the club speaking, and a marketplace listing is not a booking policy. Plenty of private clubs appear on The Knot because a caterer or an events agency put them there.
It is still evidence, and it cuts towards outside weddings being accepted. It is not proof, and this page will not treat it as proof. If the club confirms on the phone that non members may book, that changes everything on this page and nothing on The Knot.
The club publishes real capacities, which is more than most venues on this island manage. The Main Dining Room takes 125 seated, 150 for a cocktail reception, 140 theatre style and 120 classroom. The Regatta Room takes 50 seated, 80 cocktail, 75 theatre and 30 classroom.
A 125 seat maximum puts this in a different bracket from a Nassau catering hall. It is a small wedding venue by local standards, and that is the case for it: a harbour, a clubhouse and a guest list that fits in one room. The Knot's 101 to 150 band is consistent with the Main Dining Room.
Outside there are decks, a patio and the club beach. Ceremony capacity on the beach or the decks is not published, and neither is any rain contingency. On the published numbers the indoor fallback for a beach ceremony would be the same 125 seat dining room your reception is in.
The food operation is Foodies Cafe LI, described as the dedicated culinary team at the club, and the club's own dining page names Sea Cliff Yacht Club and Foodies Cafe together. Foodies also carries the club on its own venues page.
For a couple that is a useful distinction. A named small culinary operator running a two room club is a different proposition from a banquet company turning over four weddings a weekend, and it usually means more menu flexibility and less standardisation. It also means two parties to your booking. Ask which of them holds the contract and takes the deposit, and who you call when something goes wrong on the night.
No outside caterer policy, approved vendor list or vendor fee is published anywhere.
A figure of $129 circulates for this club and it is worth being precise about what it is. On The Knot, $129 is the starting price attached to the ceremony. It is not a food and beverage per person rate, and it should not be entered into a budget as one. The Knot's reception pricing for this venue says to contact the venue.
The $175 per person on the same listing is The Knot's stated average couple spend per person, which is a derived figure and not a rate card. Bar service at $40 per person is also The Knot's. The club publishes no pricing of any kind: no per person rate, no site fee, no minimum, no service charge, no end time.
So the whole commercial picture here is a marketplace construction sitting on top of a membership question the club has not answered. That is an unusual amount of uncertainty for a venue with real published room capacities, and it is all resolvable with one phone call.
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