JW Marriott Essex House is a luxury hotel on Central Park South in Manhattan, offering an opulent wedding experience in the Grand Salon, an ornate ballroom featuring crystal chandeliers, painted ceiling murals, and gold ornamentation. The wedding package includes a ceremony, cocktail hour with luxury open bar and hors d'oeuvres, and a four-hour dinner and dancing reception at $395 per person, along with a wedding cake by Ron Ben-Israel, complimentary hotel suites, and a menu tasting for six.
Pricing
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Guests
Your estimate · Venue Fee + Catering
$70,122
100 guests · taxes & fees included
Assumes 100 guests until you change it.
$45,000 food & beverage minimum
Your food & beverage comes to $39,500. The minimum adds $5,500, so the estimate uses $45,000.
Taxes & fees: A 16.3216% service charge (similar to a gratuity, distributed to service employees) and an 8.6784% administrative fee (not a gratuity, retained by the hotel) apply to all food and beverage and room rental prices, totaling 25%. An 8.875% tax applies to all prices including the service charge and administrative fee. The 25% fee and the 8.875% tax also apply to the $5,000 room rental.
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The property
A luxury hotel located on Central Park South in midtown Manhattan. Weddings are held in the Grand Salon, an ornate ballroom, with the Petit Salon available for cocktail hour and the Grand Salon Foyer for the invitation and arrival.
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