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The clubhouse went up in 1916 as an English Georgian manor for James Abercrombie Burden Jr. and Florence Adele Vanderbilt Sloane, designed by William Adams Delano of Delano & Aldrich on what had been the Lewis Dairy Farm. The living room paneling, molding and doors came out of old English castles. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt visited, and so did the Prince of Wales in 1924. All of that is the club's own account, on its estate history page. What the club does not print, anywhere, is a price.
The club publishes history in detail and pricing not at all. Every dollar figure on this page is marketplace, and the only one worth carrying is the $2,000 ceremony fee that The Knot and WeddingWire both list. The Knot's $35,600 average is an estimate the platform generates, not a rate the club quoted. Ask for the current wedding menus by email and ask what edition they are.
We read woodsideclub.com, its estate history page and its catered events page, then the club's listings on The Knot and WeddingWire, 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 club is a private membership golf club, so its availability to outside couples rests on one marketing sentence rather than a stated booking policy; confirm it at inquiry.
Woodside sells memberships and runs a golf course, so the first question is whether a couple with no connection to the club can book the ballroom. The club answers it in its own words on its home page and again on its catered events page: it caters to members and non members alike.
That is a marketing line rather than a formal booking policy, and it is not backed by a rules page or an FAQ. It is still first party, and it is more than most Gold Coast clubs put in writing. We take it at face value and suggest you confirm it at the first inquiry.
There is no member sponsorship language anywhere on the site. Events go through a Director of Special Events on 516-802-2900 extension 216, which is a staffed events desk rather than a member portal.
The estate history page is unusually detailed for a club site. It gives the build year, 1916, the architect, William Adams Delano, the firm, Delano & Aldrich, and the original owners, the Burden and Vanderbilt Sloane family. It names the prior use of the land, the Lewis Dairy Farm.
It also records the imported castle paneling in the living room and the guest list of the 1920s, including the Prince of Wales in 1924. If the reason you are looking at this venue is the building, the club has done the work of telling you what the building is.
The event rooms themselves are less documented. The club names a renovated grand ballroom with chandeliers, and marketplace listings add an outdoor ceremony area by the pool, a terrace and a landscaped lawn. No room names and no per room capacities are published.
This is rarer than it sounds. Most Nassau clubs at least surface a starting rate on The Knot. Woodside does not, and neither does WeddingWire. The catered events page directs couples to email the Director of Special Events for current wedding menus.
A Gold Buffet Wedding Package PDF is referenced on that page, but current menus are only sent on request. If you want a document you can compare against other clubs, you will have to ask for it and then ask what edition it is.
What the marketplaces do carry is a ceremony figure. WeddingWire lists a $2,000 starting ceremony fee and says no site fee applies to receptions. The Knot lists the same $2,000 ceremony starting price alongside a $35,600 average, which is a platform estimate rather than a club rate. Do not carry that average into a meeting as a quote.
WeddingWire's list for that fee runs to bridal suite, chairs, china, set up, clean up, event planning, flatware, glassware, linens, parking and tables. That is a broad inclusion list for a ceremony charge, and it is not confirmed on the club's own site.
Treat it as a checklist to verify rather than a promise. Read it back to the events office line by line and ask which items are actually in the ceremony fee at this club, today, at your headcount.
Nothing is published about a food and beverage minimum, a guest minimum, a service charge, a maitre d' fee or an administrative fee. On Long Island those charges are usually where the difference between a quoted number and a final invoice lives, so they belong on the first call, not the third.
The Knot states the venue hosts only one wedding per weekend with exclusive use of the property. That is a genuinely useful claim if it is true, and it is a claim the club itself does not repeat anywhere we could read.
Exclusive use of a working golf club is a specific arrangement, and it usually comes with conditions about play, the grill room and member access. Ask what exclusive use covers on a Saturday in June and what it costs, if anything.
No end time, curfew or rain contingency is published either, though an indoor ballroom sits alongside the poolside ceremony area, the terrace and the lawn. Capacity is a third open question: WeddingWire says 125 to 265 and The Knot bands it at 201 to 250, which are not the same claim.
The club sits at 225 Muttontown Eastwoods Road, in Muttontown. WeddingWire files the venue under Syosset, and several directories follow. It is the same property either way, and the mismatch still matters when you are searching listings or checking a guest's drive time.
Search the club by Muttontown and the listings by Syosset. Give guests the street address rather than the town name, because the two do not agree across every mapping tool.
Poppy's Place, the club's a la carte dining room, is named on the site alongside the ballroom. What is missing everywhere is a room list. The tour is where you find out how much of the manor a wedding actually gets.
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