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This is a great thread! I"ll add on with some places that I looked at as well :) I was looking for a Friday or Saturday night in September or October:
Tribeca Rooftop: GORGEOUS space, very large, and if it's nice weather and within warmer months, you can have the ceremony on the rooftop, which is lovely, and then guests move downstairs to the cocktail hour, and then to a different part of the room for the reception. They include a TON--I believe sushi bar and martini bar is included, cake is included, and the space itself is gorgeous but not overwhelming, which makes it easy to add just a few touches of decor. It is expensive though--$190 per person for a Friday night (and I think the minimum is 165, although I could be wrong) and I believe it was $225 for a Saturday night (with a minimum of 200, I think). So very expensive BUT--you get a WHOLE lot that's included in that price, which at another place you might have to upgrade for.
Central Park Boathouse: (warning, I'm getting married here so might be a bit biased 
). Gorgeous location--middle of Central Park, doesn't get much better! $165 per person for Friday or Saturday, minimum of 125 for a Friday and 165 for a Saturday. Four course dinner and passed hor d's are included, cake is NOT included. There is a $650 fee to have the ceremony there as well. Very garden-y feel, kind of old NY feeling as well. One of the bummers is that the restaurant is in operation during the wedding, even though the wedding room is separate and you can't really hear the restaurant. The wedding room has an English Garden attached to it and it abutts the lake; if you go out on the deck by the lake, you can see the restaurant diners/be seen by them. Also, the rocks/park areas on the other side of the Boathose and in the back are open to the public, so you could potentially have people chilling on the rocks around the lake, looking at you. The room is pretty huge, and has lovely french doors/huge floor to ceiling windows. It does get dark at night, and there's a lot of dark wood in the decor. Food--we haven't had our tasting yet, but based on the restaurant food, it's good but not out of this world. People go here for the location/ambiance, not the food.
Bryant Park Grill: has three areas, the outdoor rooftop, the garden area, and the restaurant. The rooftop would have been where we had our ceremony and, weather permitting, we could have had cocktail hour in the garden. 3 course dinner included, and a bridal suite at the bryant park hotel. We did not like that the garden area was SO open to the public--like there could be random people leaning on the wall of the garden, looking over (it's a very low wall). I also didn't love the indoor restaurant, where the reception would have been. It has booths along the wall that would have stayed there, which I thought a bit strange, and the acoustics didn't seem to be great. I didn't like the decor ( seemed a bit 80's/Art Deco (but not in a good way)). We also had dinner there when we went for a tour and I was not impressed with the food at all. Minimum of 100 and max of 160, $175 for Fri/Sat wedding, $160 for Sunday. Then a ceremony fee and bar fee of $900 combined.
Hi,
I would recommend to brides as a wedding planner:
Brooklyn:
- Brooklyn Bridge Park for ceremonies
- Dumbo Loft
-Rebar restaurant
Queens:
- Douglaston Manor
- Dante's
Long Island:
- Coyote Grill
- Chateau Briand
-Jericho Terrace
@heather25: no, sorry, we didn't look there--it's a restaurant right? I would check indiebride.com's forum (it's called kvetch), I feel like I've seen that name pop up there before
@hilsy85: can i ask how early you had to book the boathouse for sept/oct 2010? i'm looking at possibly that time in 2011 and wasn't sure if i'd be locked out of the boathouse because i'm sure it fills up fast.
@lauren810c: excellent idea! thanks for sharing girls, this is SO helpful (it is so hard to find pricing anywhere on ny venues)!
@hilsy85: Yeh its a restaurant on 53rd. Beautiful atrium. I will check out Indie and report back if I find anything! TKS.
@esqbee: I went to tour the boathouse in early August and put a "soft hold" on our date. We didn't put down our deposit and sign the contract til early Sept, and he didn't mention anything about anyone asking after our date. However, we did do a Friday, which might have been less popular than a Saturday. I will say that I started touring venues really early--like 15 months out--just because I wanted to pick a place and have a date solidified.
I highly recommend Guastavino's! We had a great experience with the venue and all of their staff. Prices vary by season, they include service in their quote unlike most venues so make sure you're comparing apples to apples. Range for 200 guests was $195 to $235 for a Sat night. No ceremony fee.
Thanks Hilsy! That is super helpful, as i really can't put a deposit down until i've settled on a budget but it is our top choice and i was worried we'd be closed out already for much of the season. We have a decent number of out of towners, so we're hoping to avoid a friday night, but we'll see. I'm hoping it'll help us that we are not 'married' to any particular date, just looking to get married sometime over the fall 2011.
@esqbee: that's exactly how we felt--we picked our date based on what the boathouse had available. Let me know if you have any question on the boathouse or any of the vendors! :)
Has anyone looked at the foundry as a venue??? Me and my FI dont want to choose a place till about 3 months before the wedding due to money constraints. Whats the latest u would consider booking ur venue at?
A suggestion also, if you are looking for prices for NY venues and catering, New York magazine's website has a whole wedding section with tons of venues, I would say that a majority have prices (I assume price upon request means mucho $$$$)... I am not engaged yet, but it was helpful to get an idea of what the range of city prices are!
@Ambellina13:Thanks! I will try that as well. I just dont know how long I can wait to book the venue. I am also looking at smaller venues like budakan or le souk lounge for a reception. May go the restaurant route. I got a year to plan though.....
A Co-worker of mine looked at the foundry and loved it..It's a pretty popular place so I'm not sure that waiting until 3 months before they will have the date available, but if you are flexible with the actual date, I'm sure you can figure out something!
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So I saw a bunch of places in NYC when I was looking for a venue, so I thought I would post the info I had hopefully helping some brides looking for a wedding venue...I'm not bashing any place (i know alot of bees have gotten married at them)..just offering up some of my own personal thoughts
Plus, my fiance is at his bachelor party so I have some time on my hands..haha
So here goes..prices are based on August which is typically a cheaper month in NYC, but Saturday which is definitely more expensive than Friday..
Bridgewaters (South Street Seaport) - It has 2 main rooms (one typically for smaller weddings and one for larger (300 people can fit at least) weddings. You can actually rent both rooms as well. The smaller room has an outdoor balcony wrapped around with views of the water (very nice). The cake was included in the price. Ambiance in the smaller room was very outdoorsy - there is actually a boat (maybe rowboat) hanging from the ceiling. Price for a Saturday in August $165 (plus tax and tip).
Manhattan Penthouse (14th and 5th ave) - BEAUTIFUL views of the city, but I found the main room to be small - ceilings were not high - very pretty though. There is a site fee on top of the pp fee. Site fee was $4K and then it was $150 pp
Roosevelt Hotel 45th and Madison - I really wanted to like this place - reasonable priced (for ny) at $155 per person.l What I didn't like is the cocktail hour area overlooked the hotel reception area so that it wouldn't be totally private. The rug in the ballroom was a little too much for me though. The cake was included and it was by Syvia Weinstock (sp?)
Battery Gardens - I really though I was going to get married here but it wasn't meant to me - AMAZING views of the water, statue of liberty, awesome outside area of the cocktail hour. The only thing I didn't like was that in the main room the stair case was in a weird spot in the middle of the room and the two sides of the rooms didn't flow as well as I would have liked. Cake not included $185pp
Astra - 59th and east river - Great views, nice outside balcony, but small - it reminded me of a restaurant (would be great for a smaller more intimate wedding). I forget the price on this one
Yale Club - Have 2 different main ballrooms, and a separate cocktail hour with an outside balcony overlooking grand central (major plus), $160 per person - This was one of my final 3 choices, but the decor just wasn't my style - For me the pictures of presidents all over the place just wasn't my thing. I have down $175 for the price, but it could be cheaper than that - I included a sushi bar add on when I got my quote. Cake is included - Another bonus is they have hotel rooms in the Yale Club so all guests can stay there as well.
24 Fifth (9th and 5th) - Nice location by Washington square park - Inside there is a cool sunken in dance floor - could have been cool to put the sweeheart table right on the dance floor- decor looked a little older...believe the price was $145pp
The W Union Square - Like the contemporary feel of W Hotel's in general - at this location they have a grand ballroom with built in uplighting (so you don't have to pay for it separately)..and no ugly carpet...Cake is included (from Carlo's of Cake Boss in Hoboken). No outside area which is a bummer. Food is Todd English cuisine and amazing. $175pp
I wanted to look at Chelsea Piers Lighthouse, Tribeca Rooftop and the Boathouse but I didn't meet the Saturday night minimums
: )