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Seated with a dance floor, this hotel takes 130 guests. Standing, it takes 200. That gap is the most useful pair of numbers on the page, because the figure people quote is the standing one, and a seated wedding here is a mid size event. Sound View is a mid century motel on County Road 48 that was bought in 2016 and rebuilt, with 55 rooms that all face the water and the Halyard restaurant added during the renovation. Nobody publishes a price for it: not the hotel, not The Knot, not Eventective.
This is the rare venue where the capacity is first party and the price does not exist at all. The hotel publishes three capacity figures, and the only one most people repeat is the 200. Nothing carries a dollar sign on the hotel's site, on The Knot or on Eventective, so the RFP is the only route to a number and your format needs to be in it.
We read soundviewgreenport.com and its weddings page, the The Knot and Eventective listings and the owner investor's project page for the renovation, all 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.
The seated capacity of 130 is well below the 200 figure that listings and search results repeat, so confirm your format before you build a guest list.
The hotel publishes all three numbers itself. Maximum 200 guests total. Seated weddings with a dance floor up to 130. Cocktail style receptions up to 200. First party, on its own weddings page.
That 70 guest difference is not a technicality. It is the difference between a seated dinner and a standing reception, and it is the sort of thing a couple discovers three months into planning if the headline number is all they read.
The marketplaces make it worse rather than better. The Knot bands the venue at 101 to 150 guests. Eventective lists 200 maximum. Neither explains which format it is describing. Use the hotel's own three numbers and ignore the bands.
The Halyard is the hotel's restaurant and its primary event space. Ceremonies happen on the private beach on Long Island Sound or in the garden. The Library is offered for small celebrations.
That is a specific and slightly unusual arrangement: your reception is in a working restaurant rather than a purpose built ballroom. Ask what happens to the restaurant's own service on your date, and whether the space is yours exclusively.
Ceremony capacity on the private beach is not published separately. If the beach is the reason you are here, ask how many chairs fit above the tide line in September, and ask who sets them. A private beach on the Sound is a genuine asset and it is also a variable one, because the usable width changes with the tide and the season.
The hotel's weddings page describes custom menus for every part of the day and prices none of them. Pricing runs through a request for proposal form or email. That is the whole of the venue's public position on money.
The Knot listing carries no starting price, no average spend and no per person figure. It offers a Request Quote button and nothing else. Eventective publishes no dollar figures either.
So there is no number for this page to label, and no marketplace estimate to argue with. Submit the RFP with your date, your headcount and your format, seated or standing, because the seated cap will change the answer.
The hotel's own site gives 58775 County Road 48, Greenport. An Eventective listing prints 57185 Route 48, Greenport. County Road 48 and Route 48 are the same road, and the two street numbers are not the same address.
We trust the hotel's own figure. It is worth flagging because directory data for North Fork properties is loose in general, and a guest following a listing rather than an invitation can end up in the wrong driveway.
Put 58775 County Road 48 on the invitations and on the shuttle brief. Confirm it once with the hotel, since it is a free thing to check and an expensive thing to get wrong.
The renovation is documented on the owner investor's project page rather than the hotel's. It records a mid century motel acquired in 2016 and reworked, with cedar and natural materials in the rooms and the Halyard introduced as part of the work. All 55 rooms have water views.
Wedding blocks are offered, including one and two bedroom suites. Rates are not published. On the North Fork in summer that is the second largest number in your budget after the food, so ask for it early and ask how many rooms the block has to hold.
The original build year of the motel is not published in any source we read. If a mid century building matters to your story, the hotel is not the place that will document it for you.
No outside caterer policy and no preferred vendor list is published. The hotel provides its own menus and dedicated wedding coordinators, which points to in house catering, and it never says so in a sentence you could hold anyone to.
No end time or curfew is published. No food and beverage minimum or guest minimum is published. No service charge, administrative fee or tax handling is published.
No rain plan is published either, which is the sharpest gap on this page. Both ceremony settings offered, the private beach and the garden, are outdoors. The Halyard and the Library are indoors and neither is described as a ceremony fallback. Ask how a beach ceremony moves indoors and how late the call can be made.
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