The Snapper Inn

The rate card, package by package

Three packages are published. The Riverside, a buffet, runs $142 per person May through October, $120 on Thursdays and Sundays, and $110 November through April, with top shelf liquor adding $13 in each tier. The Vanderbilt, also a buffet, runs $175 May through October, $145 Thursday and Sunday, and $135 November through April. The Empire, a sit down dinner, runs $195 May through October, $165 Thursday and Sunday, and $135 November through April.

All three are five hour events. All three include open bar with house or top shelf liquor, beer, wine, a signature cocktail and a champagne toast. All three also include a personal maitre d', professional staff, a choice of table linens, a tiered wedding cake, coffee and tea service and dinner rolls. The November through April versions of the Vanderbilt and the Empire include a raw bar. An extra hour of service costs $15 per person. Raw bar, lobster and dessert stations cost extra in the other tiers, and the venue does not publish what.

There is no effective date on the page. We fetched it on 10 September 2026 and treat it as current as fetched, which is the honest way to hold an undated rate card.

The $5,000 line that sits on top of the ceremony fee

The site fee is $1,000. An on site ceremony is another $1,000. Then there is a cocktail hour tent and bar rental at $5,000, and it is required if the ceremony happens on the property. Those three stack.

This is the number people miss, because it is not framed as a ceremony cost and it does not appear in the per person tiers. A couple comparing $110 a head here against a Nassau hall quoting $160 all in is not comparing like with like once $7,000 of fixed fees lands on the Snapper side. Run the arithmetic on your own guest count before you decide this is the cheap option. The site also does not say where that tent goes, what it covers beyond the bar, or whether the $5,000 changes with guest count. Get the itemised version in writing.

May through October decides which room you get

The Inn holds 250 and runs all year. The Pavilion, outdoors and on the water, holds 180 and only operates May through October. The Waterside Tent holds 60 on the same seasonal window. So a February wedding here is an indoor wedding in a 250 seat room, whatever the photographs on the site suggest.

The pricing follows the same logic, with separate tiers for May through October, for Thursdays and Sundays, and for November through April. Greater Long Island has reported the restaurant closing seasonally until March in at least one past year. That does not appear on the venue's own site and it does not mean the winter rates are unavailable, but it does mean a November through April date needs confirming by phone before you plan around the $110 tier.

WeddingWire says $100 and the venue says $110

WeddingWire carries a $100 per person figure for the Snapper Inn. The venue's own published rate card starts at $110, for the Riverside buffet in the November through April window, and runs up to $195. Those do not reconcile and we are not averaging them.

Prefer the venue's page. It is first party, it is itemised by package and season, and it names its inclusions. The marketplace figure has no package attached to it and no season, which is usually the sign of an old starting price that nobody updated. Take the venue's own numbers into the meeting and ask them to date the rate card out loud.

It is a working restaurant, and that shapes the night

The Snapper Inn does not say it runs one wedding at a time, and the pages we read do not address exclusivity at all. It is a restaurant with multiple dining rooms that continues to serve the public, so a private buyout is not implied by anything published.

That is worth resolving early, because the waterside location is the whole appeal and the dock and the river view are not fenced off for you by default. Ask which rooms stay open to walk in diners during your reception, and whether the outdoor ceremony area is screened from the restaurant's own terrace.

No service charge, maitre d' fee, bridal attendant fee or administrative percentage is published anywhere. For a venue that publishes this much, that omission stands out. A personal maitre d' is included in every package, which is unusual and worth confirming means no separate maitre d' fee at signing.