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Family owned since 1959 and still run by the same family 67 years later, by its own count, the Hampton Maid takes a deliberately small number of events a year. That is the hotel's own framing and it shapes everything else. This is a Hampton Bays inn built for elopements and small weddings, with an indoor room that seats 70 and a garden that seats 125. Catering and alcohol are in house only. The hotel publishes no prices at all, so every figure below comes from Here Comes The Guide.
Every price here is marketplace. The hotel's own brochure sits behind a download and its events page publishes no figure we could read. The $110 per person brunch package, the $45 meals, the $2,000 rental and the $500 ceremony fee all come from Here Comes The Guide, and nothing on the hotel's site confirms any of them.
We read the hotel's homepage and events page, the Here Comes The Guide and The Knot listings, and a September 2026 James Lane Post item on fall private events, 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.
No price on this page is first party, and the indoor seated capacity of 70 is roughly half the outdoor figure of 125, which is a real rain date constraint.
Here Comes The Guide splits the capacity into indoor and outdoor, and the two halves do not match. Outdoors: 125 seated for a ceremony, 125 for cocktails, 125 seated for a reception. Indoors the figures are 100 for cocktails and 70 seated for a reception.
Read that again with rain in mind. A garden wedding for 100 guests has no indoor equivalent on this property, because the indoor seated number is 70. The hotel publishes no rain plan, no tent policy and no contingency language of any kind, and its own site publishes no capacity at all, so the constraint only appears if you go looking at a marketplace listing.
For a wedding of 60 or 70 people this is not a constraint, which is the size the inn is built for. Above 70 seated, the question is what happens on a wet Saturday, and the answer needs to come from the hotel in writing before a deposit moves.
The events page publishes no rates. It routes couples to a downloadable Wedding & Events brochure and to an events address at the hotel. We could not read a first party figure anywhere on the domain.
Here Comes The Guide publishes several. Packages start at $110 per person for brunch weddings, with meals priced separately from $45 per person. The rental fee starts at $2,000 and is described as varying by day, time, season, space, guest count, duration and package. A ceremony fee starts at $500. The listing describes a five hour reception and ceremony including an event coordinator, ceremony seating, a room for the couple, garden access for photographs and day-of coordination, all of it unconfirmed by the hotel.
A brunch wedding at $110 per person is a genuinely different entry point for the Hamptons, and it is also the kind of figure that moves fastest between seasons. Treat it as the shape of the offer rather than as a quote.
The hotel states on its homepage that it has composted on site since 1972 and that some of its suites are LEED certified. For a 1959 roadside inn, that is an unusual thing to have been doing for that long. It is also the kind of detail that tends to be real when a family says it about their own property rather than a marketing department saying it about a portfolio.
The restaurant on site is R.AIRE. The gardens are the ceremony setting and the photograph setting, and garden access for photographs is listed as part of the package on the marketplace listing.
A September 2026 trade item describes the hotel offering a complimentary signature cocktail for fall 2026 private events. Small, but it tells you the events side is being actively worked this season rather than coasting on an old page.
This is not a private estate you take over. The Hampton Maid rents rooms and runs a public restaurant while your wedding happens, unless you negotiate otherwise. The hotel says it takes a limited number of events per year so each one gets attention, which is a real commitment and is also not the same thing as one wedding at a time or an exclusive buyout. Nothing published guarantees either.
Guest rooms on site are the practical upside. Hampton Bays in season is a hard place to move 80 people between a ceremony and a bed, and a wedding party that sleeps where it danced avoids the whole problem.
Here Comes The Guide lists wheelchair access as limited. If anyone in your party needs step free routes between the garden, the indoor room and a bathroom, that is a site visit question rather than an email question.
The restaurant matters for one more reason. R.AIRE has its own bookings on your Saturday, so ask early whether it closes for a wedding, whether your guests can eat there the night before, and where its diners leave their cars.
Catering is in house. Alcohol is in house. Amplified music is allowed indoors with restrictions outdoors, all per Here Comes The Guide, and the hotel's own site calls itself an all-inclusive venue without spelling the policy out in those words.
So there is no outside caterer conversation to have and no bar you can supply yourself. What is missing from the record is the money that usually attaches to in house service: no food and beverage minimum is published, no guest minimum, no service charge percentage, no administrative fee and no tax handling.
There is also no published end time. The package is described as five hours by the marketplace listing, and the outdoor music restriction implies a practical cut off outdoors, but no clock time appears anywhere. Ask for the end time and the outdoor music rule in the same sentence, because in Hampton Bays they are the same rule.
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