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Mansion events at the Village Club of Sands Point are restricted to members. The Village of Sands Point, which owns and governs the club, said so on 9 April 2025, when it announced that The Mansion was resuming private events after an extended closure and that bookings would stay exclusive to members. If nobody in your family is a member, this is not a venue you can book, and the volume of older wedding coverage online does not change that. We are publishing the page anyway, because the 1916 Guggenheim house keeps turning up on Long Island venue lists.
There are no numbers to give you here, and for a members only club that is the honest answer rather than a research failure. The Village said it adjusted pricing during the closure and published none of it. Unless you are booking through a member, the pricing question does not arise.
We read the club's home, membership, event contact and wedding tour pages, the Village of Sands Point announcement of 9 April 2025, the KemperSports property page and a local chamber listing, 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.
Mansion events are members only under the Village of Sands Point notice of 9 April 2025, so a couple without a membership cannot book this venue.
The announcement sits on sandspoint.gov rather than on a wedding blog. It says The Mansion is resuming private events after a long closure, and that Mansion event bookings continue to be exclusive to members, with inquiries directed to Rachel Burke.
The same notice describes a planned renovation of the Grille: a new bar section, bathrooms, finishes and an outdoor bar are all named in it. Jon Cheshire is named as Interim General Manager in the same announcement. It also says the Village used the closure to refine the types of events it hosts and to adjust pricing. No prices were published alongside that statement.
Read as a whole, that is a municipality restarting a members' amenity carefully. It is not a venue reopening to the public.
Search this venue and you will find photographer galleries, wedding blogs and directory listings that present The Mansion as a bookable public wedding venue. Many of them predate the closure. None of them carries the membership caveat the Village published in April 2025.
That is how couples end up spending a Saturday driving to Sands Point for a tour they cannot convert into a booking. Where a third party listing shows this club as available with no membership note, the listing is the thing that is wrong.
We found no marketplace starting price for the club that we would repeat. If you see one, check its date against the April 2025 announcement before you believe it.
Isaac Guggenheim built the mansion in 1916 in Italian Renaissance style. The property later ran as the IBM Country Club. The Village of Sands Point bought it in 1994, which is how a Gold Coast estate became a municipal club.
The grounds run to roughly 210 acres on Long Island Sound. The golf course is a Tom Doak design, eighteen holes, par 71, 6,584 yards. KemperSports manages the property.
All of that is why the place stays on venue lists. It is a genuine Gold Coast estate with water, acreage and a serious golf pedigree, sitting fifteen minutes from Port Washington.
The club's own site names The Mansion as its event venue and shows a ceremony location and an event space on a wedding virtual tour page. It gives no room names, no square footage, no capacities.
There is no per person rate, no site fee, no food and beverage minimum, no service charge, no vendor policy, no end time and no rain plan published on villageclub.org. We checked the home page, the membership page, the event contact page and the wedding tour page on 10 September 2026.
For a members only venue that is normal. Clubs price events for members through the office, and there is nothing to publish because there is nothing being marketed.
Start by confirming the current rule with the club office rather than with a member, because the April 2025 notice describes a policy that was recently reset and pricing that was recently adjusted.
Then settle what sponsorship means in practice at this club. Ask who signs the contract, whether the member has to attend, and whether the member's account carries the deposit. Those three answers change the whole shape of the planning.
Ask where the Grille renovation stands relative to your date, since the Village flagged that work in the same announcement. And ask for capacities in writing, because none exist in public and you will otherwise be planning a guest list against a number somebody said on a tour.
We publish this page for one reason. The Village Club keeps turning up on Long Island venue lists, and none of those lists carries the membership rule. A couple who finds the mansion on a photographer's blog has no way of knowing that the Village restricted Mansion events to members in April 2025.
Policies at municipal clubs also move. This one closed to private events, reopened under a restriction, and was described in the same notice as having had its event types and its pricing reviewed. A rule set in April 2025 is not a rule set forever, and the place to check it is sandspoint.gov rather than a wedding directory.
If the Village ever opens Mansion events to non members, it will announce that in the same channel it used to close them. Until it does, the honest answer to the question people actually ask is no, unless you know a member well enough to have this conversation with them.
One adjacent point. The club sits on the North Shore among other Gold Coast estates, several of which do take public bookings and publish their terms. If the 1916 house was the draw, the era and the water are available within a few miles of Thayer Lane.
A 120 acre Lessing's estate in Woodbury whose wedding menu publishes a 22% administrative fee, one of the few on Long Island that prints the number.
A 1918 Roslyn Heights mansion restored to its 1920s look, with a 150 guest minimum and a peak season starting price of $35,000 on WeddingWire.
The former Sans Souci house above Long Island Sound, one event at a time, a 205 seat ballroom, and $155 to $225 a head published on their own site.
A 1910 Charles A. Platt house on 55 acres with 186 hotel rooms, a 220 seat ballroom indoors and a tent published for 700 outside.
A 1923 Tudor Revival house on 86 acres above Long Island Sound, rented as a venue only for a flat fee, with a caterer you hire yourself.
A 1916 Delano & Aldrich manor that says it books members and non members alike, with a $2,000 ceremony fee on WeddingWire and no per person rate anywhere.