Brooklyn venue guide
Updated
Brooklyn weddings happen in restaurants, bars, lofts, converted warehouses, historic halls, and gardens, mostly for a hundred or so guests who'll head home or to a hotel at the end of the night. Two things move the bill more than the room does: which day you pick, and whether the venue offers catering or hands you an empty space.
We've gathered details on 52 Brooklyn venues. Pick a starting point and Sage will rank them for your day, with cost estimates wherever the venue publishes its prices.
What should you budget?
Use − and + to reprice every figure below.
$48k
Typical estimate
The median cost for Brooklyn venues that include their own catering.
$20k–$73k
Typical range
A small restaurant and a full warehouse buyout are both Brooklyn weddings, which is why this is so wide.
These are our estimates, not quotes from the venues. Many Brooklyn venues quote a food and drink minimum rather than a flat price, so what you actually pay depends on your guest count and what everyone eats and drinks. Service charges and tax get added on top.
Every filled dot is one Brooklyn venue that can host 100 guests, shaded by its own estimate on the same scale as the New Yorkguide's map; grey ones don't publish a venue-with-catering price. Outlined dots are venues in neighbouring regions.
Narrow it down
See which Brooklyn venues fit your guest count and budget, and why
Guests
By budget and guest count
How many Brooklyn venues come in under common budgets for the venue and food, at the guest counts couples plan for most. Each row counts the venues that can host that many guests and publish a full price for the venue and the food, so the list gets shorter as it grows.
| Guests | Typical venue and food | Under $15,000 | Under $25,000 | Under $35,000 | Under $50,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 guests | $37k | 3 of 15 | 5 of 15 | 7 of 15 | 11 of 15 |
| 100 guests | $48k | 1 of 11 | 2 of 11 | 2 of 11 | 6 of 11 |
| 150 guests | $61k | 1 of 9 | 1 of 9 | 1 of 9 | 2 of 9 |
| 200 guests | $71k | 0 of 6 | 0 of 6 | 1 of 6 | 1 of 6 |
Our estimates for the venue and food, including service charges and tax where the venue lists them, on a Saturday in peak season. Not quotes. A typical figure is shown only where at least five venues publish a price. On their cheapest published date, usually a weekday or a winter month, 4 more venues come in under $50,000 for 100 guests.
How venues price weddings
Pick one to see what its price contains, what it leaves for you to buy, and what it typically comes to.
You pay for the space and their kitchen
Venues publish their price in two ways: as a site fee plus a per-guest menu price, or as a bundled package (venue + food).
$48k
typical for venues with catering
$20k–$73k
where 80% of these 11 venues land
And then you still buy
don’t want to worry about sourcing a caterer or any outside catering fees.
What you’d still need to find out
Whether drinks are inside the menu price or billed separately, and what the service charge and tax add at the end.
You buy the space, then the food
You hire and pay a caterer yourself. Any fee the venue charges for letting an outside kitchen in is already in this figure.
$9.5k
typical for the venue rental
$7k–$28k
where 80% of these 10 venues land
And then you still buy
want a specific cuisine, a caterer you already love, or real control of the food budget.
What you’d still need to find out
What your caterer will quote, and whether rentals, staff and the bar come through them or the venue.
You buy the space and the drinks
Mostly wineries and event spaces that serve no food of their own. The price covers the space and drinks from their bar, and you hire a caterer for the meal.
$23k
typical for the venue and bar
$17k–$48k
where 80% of these 5 venues land
And then you still buy
want your own caterer but would rather not run a bar yourself.
What you’d still need to find out
Whether they have a minimum beverage spend and what your caterer will quote for the food.
The day you pick changes the price more than the room does. Moving the same wedding, at the same venue, off a Saturday costs you nothing to do, and Brooklyn rewards it more than the rest of New York does. It can save you more than switching to a cheaper venue would. After the date, the question is who makes dinner: a restaurant or bar quotes you a minimum to spend on food and drink, while a loft hands you the keys and you hire a caterer.
Monday to Thursday against the same venue on a Saturday, next to 20% across New York. A Friday or Sunday lands in between.
Compare weekday pricesOf the venues that say either way, compared with 31% across New York. The rest offer their own catering.
See venues that allow your catererAround a third of the venues that publish a capacity seat 200 or more. Past that, the list gets short quickly.
See venues that fit your guest countAlmost everyone goes home or to a hotel, against 33% with rooms across New York.
See venues with rooms on siteWhat kind of place
They handle the catering, the bar, and the staff, and you commit to spending a certain amount on food and drink. It's the least to organize, and the kitchen is theirs rather than someone you hire. Ask whether you get the whole place or one room, what the minimum is on your date, and how long you have it before the next service.
An empty room, usually yours alone, where you bring the caterer, the bar, and the furniture. Ask what's in the building: a kitchen your caterer can work in, a freight elevator, heating and air conditioning, and enough power. Ask what you can put on the walls, too. Of the rules Brooklyn venues publish about sparklers, open flame, confetti, and décor, 79% either say no or set conditions, and attaching décor is the most restricted of the four.
Clubs, museums, and gardens with a room worth the photos and usually a list of caterers they work with. Ask whether the list is a rule or a suggestion, what the fee actually covers, and, for anything outdoors, where the ceremony moves if it rains.
10 of 52 venues here
Find venues like theseThe same wedding costs different amounts at a barn and at a hotel — and so does the shape of the bill. Four ways to look at it, for 100 guests.
The venue rental across every venue that charges one as its own line — whether or not they also sell you the food. Just the room, nothing else.
Every venue that itemises a rental, including the ones that cater. Venues quoting a single package over the room and the meal never name a room price, so they aren’t here — and this is a part of a bill, not a whole one, so it can’t be subtracted from the next chart.
The whole bill — the room, the meal, and the fees on top.
Venues behind each figure in brackets. A venue can be more than one kind of place, so it may appear in more than one row.
Every bar is one whole bill, so what changes across the list is the split. A restaurant earns it back on the menu; a event center charges you for the space.
Only the venues that price the room and the meal separately, with how many in brackets.
The floor, not the bill — what you owe before anyone has chosen a menu. A food and beverage minimum, a bar minimum and a fee for bringing your own caterer are the same move in three costumes, so they are added up per venue and shown together.
Only the venues that state a floor, with how many in brackets; silence is not a zero. A venue that says it has no minimum is counted at zero rather than left out. None charge an explicit outside-catering fee — in this corpus the minimum does that job instead.
What changes the shortlist here
If your date can move, it's the cheapest change you'll ever make here. Ask every venue for its weekday, Friday, and Sunday rates and its quieter months, and compare those instead of the Saturday number on the website. A venue that looked out of reach on a June Saturday can be comfortable in February.
Set your date and compare pricesA food and drink minimum isn't a price. Ask what it is on your date, whether the bar counts toward it, and what happens if you come in under. Then add the rest: +25% typically goes on top in service charges, admin fees, and tax, and a service charge is not a tip to your servers. Ask for the overtime rate per hour past your end time and whether they hold a refundable damage deposit, because both are real money and neither is in the quote.
Compare full estimates for your guest countCity spaces run on a clock. Ask what time you can get in to set up, when everything has to be out, and whether anyone else uses the building that day. Then think about your guests: where they'll stay, how they'll get home late, and whether there's anywhere nearby for people to carry on afterward.
See venues across the regionof venues that say either way (48 here)
at least, of all venues (52 here)
at least, of all venues (52 here)
at least, of all venues (52 here)
of venues that publish a cutoff (5 here)
a planner, insurance, security or similar, of all venues (52 here)
What affects the cost of your wedding
Wedding venue pricing is seasonal. 30 of the 52 Brooklyn venues we track charge differently depending on the day, and 23 charge differently depending on the month. Every figure below compares a venue with itself, so it says what moving your date does — whatever kind of venue you pick, and whatever the size of your wedding.
Day of the week
Months you’d consider
Peak months are selected to start. Tap any month to compare.
Saturday, peak season
The most expensive date most venues sell, and the date almost every published price assumes. Choose a different day or month to see what typically comes off.
Not every line on a quote moves. These are the ones that do, measured at the venues that move them.
The venue rental
What they charge for the space itself.
Their food & beverage minimum
The floor you have to spend with their kitchen. Off-peak the floor itself comes down.
Off-peak, the f&b minimum moves too
Venues with a food and beverage minimum, the floor itself is lower off a peak Saturday — a median 60% less on a weekday. It moves further than the venue rental does, which makes it the biggest thing a date changes at a venue that caters.
18 of the 42 Brooklyn venues that can host 100 guests put a floor under what you spend — a minimum on food and drink, or a headcount they bill for. It is the one charge that feels worse the smaller your wedding is, and it is rarely made clear on other platforms that show venue pricing.
11 of 18
would bill you above what your own 100 guests come to, by about $8.5k typically.
Most of them stop topping up from around 125 guests. Below that, inviting fewer people doesn’t lower the bill at these venues.
Cutting 20 guests takes $0 off the bill, even though they actually cost $4.4k — because of the minimum spend
A venue can set more than one.
What gets added at the end
Every pricing model carries them. At the 16 Brooklyn venues that publish their fees, the middle result is 29%, with most landing between 8% and 36%.
Administrative fee9 venues
18%
Charged instead of, or alongside, a service charge — and usually taxed as well.
Gratuity5 venues
20%
The tip that does reach the staff. Ask whether it replaces the service charge.
Sales tax13 venues
8.9%
Set by the state, and charged on the service charge too at most venues.
Dots are sized by how many venues charge that rate. The gold line is the median rate, and every fee has its own scale: read the spread within a row, not across them.
Places worth a closer look
These include restaurants, lofts, gardens, and a brewery, priced in different ways. Open a venue to see its pricing, capacity, spaces, vendor policies, and other planning details.
Brooklyn · Up to 40 guests
Décor and photography come with the venue
Under $5k · Venue Fee Only
See pricing and policies
Brooklyn
You can bring your own caterer or use theirs
Catering Est.
See pricing and policies
Brooklyn · Up to 200 guests
Guests can stay on site, and the whole property is yours
$50–75k · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Brooklyn · Up to 250 guests
Outdoor ceremony, with an indoor space if it rains
$15–25k · Venue + Bar Est.
See pricing and policies
Brooklyn · Up to 130 guests
Helps you plan the whole wedding
$35–50k · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Brooklyn · Up to 130 guests
Weekdays (Mon–Thu) cost 68% less than a Saturday
$25–35k · Venue + Bar Est.
See pricing and policies
Describe your guest count, your budget, and anything you can’t compromise on. See a ranked list of venues, with why each one fits, trade-offs, and what to double-check.
Sage the Date reads each venue's own published details, including pricing, catering and alcohol rules, music curfews, rain plans, whether you get the whole property, and how many guests each space holds. Every estimate uses your guest count. When a venue doesn't say, we tell you instead of guessing.
Before you book
Sage reads each venue's own published pricing and policies, puts different kinds of quotes on the same footing, and estimates the cost for 100 guests. Date comparisons are measured venue by venue, using only venues that publish both rates. If a venue doesn't say something, we treat it as a question to ask, not a no. Venues can't pay to appear or to rank higher here.
