Kosher Wedding venue on a budget w/ outdoor chuppah
any suggestions for a nice place in NY area that has an outdoor chuppah and decent food for under $70/pp? Large wedding, 300-350 and we will not go to Williamsburgh halls or a Satmar yeshiva basement. Thanks!
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Is your ruling-out of Williamsburg and Satmar limited only to those, or does it extend to similar facilities in Crown Heights, Borough Park, etc.? In other words is it the "haimish" scene that doesn't work for you, or is it just some doctrinal problem with those specific people, and you'd accept the same sort of thing with different people?
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re: BrokerTov
I feel like a spoil sport, I've lived in California too, but you're not in California any more.
Outdoor weddings in the northeast can be disasters. The heat can be punishing. Guests are not happy when forced to stand outside in the broiling sun thinking - do I ruin my makeup and silk gown with sunscreen or just stand here and endure a painful sunburn?
A day or two of rain can mean mud - even if you have tents set up the ground under them can be saturated, as in: the wooden dance floor sinks and tilts, beautiful turf turns into a marsh, and mud spurts out from the sides of wooden walkways when you guests step on them. And even if the rain is just a cloudburst - it can hammer on the tent so hard that you can't hear the band.
I have seen brides in mud-spattered wedding gowns dragged down by soaking wet hems - it isn't pretty.
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Crest Hollow. I got married there and really enjoyed it. I had to push sometimes to get things that I wanted which were different from the norm. They know their business and do it well.
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re: CloggieGirl
queenscook
Jan 23, 2013 05:50 PM
One warning about an outdoor chuppah at Crest Hollow . . .
Crest Hollow's chuppah area was really far from their building. The heat was stifling, truly close to unbearable, and having the shmorg and the chuppah outside was brutal. It meant being outside in the heat for close to 2 1/2 hours, far from restroom facilities, no place to splash some cool water on my face without walking so far that by the time I would have gotten back to the shmorg or chuppah, I'd be all sweated up again. Obviously not a consideration for certain times of the year, but late spring, all of summer, and a lot of the fall are all potential times for very hot days. I don't know how late one can switch from outdoors to indoors, if at all.Some elderly and disabled guests had to be shuttled back to the hall itself in a golf cart, but I can't imagine that it was pleasant for them in that heat, even with the ride.
The full post is here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/736596
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re: CloggieGirl
queenscook
Jan 23, 2013 06:35 PM
Wasn't my wedding; I was just a guest. But I can't imagine that the simcha was all that comfortable for many of the guests, including some of the elderly relatives of the couple.
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