Catskills venue guide
Updated
The Catskills are two to three hours north of New York City, and a wedding here often turns into a weekend away. Most venues are barns, farms, retreats, and inns in the mountains, and nearly all of them have rooms where your guests can stay. The tradeoff is that you'll usually hire more of your own vendors, like the caterer, rentals, and music.
We've gathered details on 13 Catskills 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.
$35k
Typical estimate
The median cost for the Catskills venues that include their own catering.
$30k–$96k
Typical range
Venues toward the top of the range usually include the food, and some include the rooms too.
These are estimates, not quotes from the venues. Many Catskills venues quote only the cost of the space, so a price well below this range probably doesn't include food yet. Your date, guest count, bar, rentals, staff, rooms, service charges, and taxes will all change the final total.
Every filled dot is one the Catskills 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 the Catskills venues fit your guest count and budget, and why
Guests
By budget and guest count
How many Catskills 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 | $35k | 0 of 6 | 3 of 6 | 3 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
| 100 guests | $35k | 0 of 6 | 0 of 6 | 3 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
| 150 guests | — | 0 of 4 | 0 of 4 | 0 of 4 | 3 of 4 |
| 200 guests | — | 0 of 4 | 0 of 4 | 0 of 4 | 2 of 4 |
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, 1 more venue comes in under $25,000 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).
$35k
typical for venues with catering
$30k–$96k
where 80% of these 6 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.
$16k
typical for the venue rental
$15k–$22k
where 80% of these 6 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.
$12k
typical for the venue and bar
$12k–$12k
where 80% of these 1 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.
Your guests can stay the weekend, but you'll hire more of the team yourself. Most venues here are somewhere to stay as well as somewhere to get married, and many give you the whole property for your event. What they usually don't provide is the vendors. Rentals, music, and often a planner are up to you, many let you bring your own caterer, and some have requirements you'll need to meet before you can book. That means more freedom to make the day your own, and more to organize.
Right on the property, compared with 33% across New York.
See venues with rooms on siteOf music, rentals, décor, planning, and photography. You'll book the rest yourself, often from the venue's list.
See what each venue includesOf the venues that say either way, compared with 31% across New York.
See venues that allow your catererMost often a licensed planner, a refundable damage deposit and event insurance. These cost extra and won't show up in a quote.
See each venue's rulesWhat kind of place
Open land, a barn, and often cabins or a farmhouse, usually yours alone for the event. The price typically covers the property but not the food, so plan to hire a caterer, rentals, and a bar separately. Ask what the kitchen and electricity can handle.
6 of 13 venues here
Find venues like theseRooms and food in one place, so there are fewer separate vendors to book. Ask how many of your guests the rooms can sleep, and whether you'll have the whole place to yourselves or share it with other visitors.
7 of 13 venues here
Find venues like theseYour guests book their own rooms, and there's a restaurant or banquet kitchen on site. Ask about reserving a block of rooms, any minimum-night stay, and how much you need to spend on food and drinks.
3 of 13 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. Two 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.
What changes the shortlist here
Having rooms on site doesn't mean everyone can stay. Ask how many people the property sleeps, whether there's a minimum stay or a set number of rooms you have to book, and where everyone else will sleep. Then think about how those guests get to and from the venue on dark country roads.
See venues with rooms on siteBefore comparing two venues, list what each one leaves to you: caterer, bar, tables and linens, a planner. Then ask what the venue requires. Some insist on a licensed planner, event insurance, or a refundable damage deposit. These aren't optional, and they won't be in the quote.
See what each venue includesWith guests staying over, you could add a welcome dinner, an after-party, or a farewell brunch. Ask which of these your booking covers, when the music has to stop and whether people can keep hanging out quietly afterward, and how check-in and check-out times work with setup and cleanup.
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of venues that publish a cutoff (5 here)
a planner, insurance, security or similar, of all venues (13 here)
What affects the cost of your wedding
Wedding venue pricing is seasonal. 2 of the 13 Catskills venues we track charge differently depending on the day, and 6 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.
What gets added at the end
Every pricing model carries them. At the 6 Catskills venues that publish their fees, the middle result is 19%, with most landing between 13% and 32%.
Administrative fee4 venues
22%
Charged instead of, or alongside, a service charge — and usually taxed as well.
Sales tax4 venues
8%
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 examples include barns, retreats, inns, and resorts, priced in different ways. Open a venue to see its pricing, capacity, spaces, vendor policies, and other planning details.
Saugerties · Up to 200 guests
Planning, rentals, and décor come with the venue
$15–20k · Venue Fee Only
See pricing and policies
Hillsdale · Up to 330 guests
You can bring your own caterer
Under $15k · Venue + Bar Est.
See pricing and policies
Kenoza Lake · Up to 200 guests
Guests can stay on site, and the whole property is yours
$75k+ · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Catskill · Up to 250 guests
Outdoor ceremony, with an indoor space if it rains
$15–20k · Venue Fee Only
See pricing and policies
Mount Tremper · Up to 120 guests
Includes a day-of coordinator
$25–35k · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Roxbury · Up to 350 guests
Planning, rentals, and décor come with the venue
$35–50k · Venue Fee + Catering
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. 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.
