Need Wedding Venues nyc

ELOPING? Need ? WINTER WEDDINGS: INDOOR/OUTDOOR

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• Grand Central Terminal (no permit necessary as long as it’s low-key; by far the most popular because it’s beautiful)
• Rockefeller Center (if you go to the concourse level by center Starbucks, you’ll see an illuminated, transluscent backdrop that might be kind of cool)
• Staten Island Ferry
• Ellis Island (entrance fee)
• Old Pachyderm Building, Bronx Zoo
• Steps of Church / pew of a church
• *Museum of Natural History (donation entrance fee)
• *Metropolitan Museum of Art (donation entrance fee)
• Museum of Modern Art (a surprisingly common place for elopements, but entrance fee is high)
• Trump Tower Atrium (725 Fifth Avenue): totally kitschy
• Winter Garden at World Financial Center: 225 Liberty Street
• Public Atrium: 60 Wall Street at William Street by the Finance Museum (it really is a rather cool space)
• Top of the Rock (with entrance fee)
• Your Hotel Lobby or Suite—Examples: Roosevelt Hotel Lobby and Crosby Hotel Parlor
• Restaurant where you will share celebratory meal: most are fine with low-key ceremonies
• SPRING-SUMMER-AUTUMN: OUTDOOR SPACES
• A $25 permit for public park weddings is mandatory when gatherings are twenty or more OR if you
• want to definitely reserve the site and be able to chase others away.
• Central Park – some spots to consider
• Ladies Pavilion (covering) / Hernshead
• Ramble/Bow Bridge
• Belvedere Castle Plaza: with covered gazebos
• Turtle Pond (better view of Castle)
• Shakespeare Garden
• Bethesda Terrace / Angel of Waters’ Fountain (covering)
• Wagner’s Cove
• “The Mall” or Poet’s Walk
• Dene Shelter
• Gapstow Bridge
• Cop Cot
• Reservoir
• Harlem Meer
• Thompkins Square Park in historic EV, has small covered “altar” area
• Irish Hunger Memorial (290 Vesey St. at North End Ave) cool structure by water
• *Battery Park
• British Garden at Hanover Square
• High Line, West Village to Chelsea: renovated freight tracks
• Elevated Acre: 55 Water Street
• Bryant Park/New York Public Library (steps only)
• Prospect Park: Grecian Peristyle (covered); Boathouse Area; Vale; et cetera
• Fort Tryon Park Upper Manhattan; near Cloisters & overlooks Hudson
• The Little Red Lighthouse (upper Manhattan)
• Riverside Park (overlooks water, Upper West Side)
• East River Park, LES/EV
• *Greenacre Park (217 E. 51st) and Paley Park (E. 53rd + Madison)
• Tudor City Park – East 41st & 43rd at 1st Avenue
• Brooklyn Bridge
• City Hall Park
• Old Brooklyn Bridge Park (complete with mini beach,but crowded & loud)
• New Brooklyn Bridge Park (by the Bargemusic and Pier)
• Gantry State Park, LIC
• Astoria Park
• Hudson River Park
• Baisley Pond Park complete with a garden in which sits a gazebo with seating for sixteen near E off Sutphin in Queens
• Alley Pond Park lovely, very natural setting take Q46 at E/F Union Turnpike stop to about 198th Street and Union Turnpike in Queens
• Kissena Park (lovely pond at about Rose and Oak Avenues)
• Fort Totten (overlooks LI Sound, has gazebo & public pool, in Bayside, Northern Queens)
• Flushing Meadows Corona Park
• Brighton Beach only recommended in the morning around 9 or 10 AM – offers some covering
• Long Beach –walkable from LIRR station
• Fire Island (wickedly beautiful)
• Orchard Beach, Bronx
• *Pepsico Sculpture Garden, Westchester—small, guerrilla wedding ceremony only; photography okay
• *New York Botanical Gardens
• *Snug Harbor Cultural Center
• *Beautiful Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
• Govenor’s Island
• Lighthouse, Roosevelt Island
• Renwick Ruins, Roosevelt Island