One Seating
No partition wall. No adjoining room. No guests who spend the night with a pillar between them and the head table. Whatever your headcount, the room holds it whole.
Serving Queens, NY
Book an Exclusive Wedding Venue for Queens, NY
A Queens guest list does not fit everywhere. It fits here, in one seating, with every plate leaving the same kitchen at the same time. One wedding a day, twenty minutes past the county line.
1
Seating, no overflow
150
Guest minimum
4
Private acres
1
Wedding a day
Why Queens Couples Book an Exclusive Wedding Venue Outside the Borough
Ask any Queens couple who has toured six halls and they will describe the same afternoon. A ballroom that seats 220, and a guest list at 280. A manager suggesting the adjoining room, with a partition, and a promise nobody will notice. A cocktail hour scheduled for 6:00 because the party before you runs until 5:30.
Franklin Square is a twenty to thirty-five minute drive from most of Queens, and the arithmetic changes when you get here. One wedding a day means no partition, no second seating, no waiting on somebody else's timeline. The gates close behind your first car and open after your last.
Forest Hills, Astoria, Bayside, Jamaica Estates, Whitestone. They all make the same drive for the same reason.
The Ballroom
Wedding Reception Venue Queens Guest Lists Actually Fit
The Grand Ballroom is one room, and it stays one room. Stone pillars, chandeliers overhead, and a dance floor that does not shrink when the tables go in.
Service That Scales
One server per table, however many tables there are. Two Maître Ds on the floor. A three-hundred-person entrée service lands together, hot, in a single pass. That is a staffing decision, not a promise.
Included, Not Quoted
Uplighting around the room. Smoke for the first dance. An ice sculpture at cocktail hour. Linens. Full house sound. None of it appears as a line item after you sign.
Packages
Exclusive Wedding Packages
Everything below is in the price. The list is short because there is nothing underneath it.
Before
Two bridal suites, private buffet, mini bar, safe, dedicated attendants
Arrival
Rolls-Royce for the couple
Ceremony
Gazebo or Atrium, full setup either way
Cocktail Hour
Open bar, stations, passed hors d'oeuvres, ice sculpture
Reception
Plated dinner, one server per table, wedding cake, dessert stations
The Room
Uplighting, smoke effects, linens, house sound
The Property
Four private acres, exclusive, all day
Three package tiers. Minimum 150 guests. Exclusive use of the property on every tier.
The Kitchen
Wedding Event Catering Services Cooked in the Building
Most halls this size run a hall and hire a kitchen. Chef John Arenth cooks on the property, for your wedding, and for nothing else that day. No warming truck in the lot. No entrée that was plated an hour ago.
Your Family's Food, Not a Banquet Template
Queens does not eat one cuisine, and a Queens wedding menu should not pretend otherwise. Kosher, halal, vegan, and gluten-free are standard here, not accommodations. Bring the dish your grandmother makes and the kitchen will work from her method, not a substitute.
Cocktail Hour
Carving stations, raw bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, and a top-shelf open bar that stays top-shelf after the first hour. The ice sculpture gets photographed before anybody touches it.
Tastings
You taste the menu before you sign it. Bring your parents. They will have opinions, and the kitchen would rather hear them in March than in September.
Ceremony
Ceremony Ground on Four Private Acres
Two ceremony locations, both on the property, both yours. You do not pick between them until the week of, and the weather does not get a vote.
The Gazebo, the Pond, the Waterfall
A grand staircase down into landscaped gardens. A gazebo beside water. Your processional walks past a waterfall, and your wedding photographers will ask for another hour here after the ceremony. Give it to them.
The Four Season Glass Atrium
Glass on every side, climate controlled, gardens visible behind the altar. Every indoor ceremony at Sand Castle happens in this room. In January it is warm and the gardens are still there. In August it is cool and the light is the same. A February date books with the same confidence as a June one.
Cultural and Religious Ceremonies
Space for a mandap, a chuppah, a tea ceremony, a nikah. Room for processions and performances. Thirty years in Nassau County means the staff has set most of them before and will ask what your officiant needs rather than guess.
The Suites
The Suites, and the Monitors Nobody Expects
Two suites, one for each side of the wedding. Private buffet, mini bar, a safe for the rings and the envelopes. Attendants who restock without being asked.
And a live feed. Closed-circuit monitors in both suites showing your cocktail hour as it happens. You will spend the hour before your entrance watching three hundred people you love find each other in a room. Couples mention this more than the Rolls-Royce.
Directions
Getting Here from Queens
505 Franklin Ave, Franklin Square, NY 11010
| From | Route | Typical Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Jamaica, Hollis | Hillside Ave east | 15 minutes |
| Bayside, Whitestone | Cross Island south | 20 minutes |
| Forest Hills, Rego Park | Grand Central to Cross Island | 25 minutes |
| Flushing | Whitestone to Cross Island | 25 minutes |
| Astoria, Long Island City | LIE east | 35 minutes |
Parking and Arrival
Ground-level lot, on the property, no attendant and no garage. Room for a full guest list plus a limousine line at the door. Nobody circles Franklin Avenue looking for a spot.
Areas We Serve
- Queens
- Brooklyn
- Nassau County
- Suffolk County
- The Bronx
- Garden City
- Franklin Square
Questions
FAQs
No. Franklin Square is in Nassau County, just over the border. Most of Queens reaches us in twenty to thirty-five minutes. What the borough cannot offer you is four private acres and a venue that hosts one wedding a day. That is the whole trade, and it is why couples drive.
The minimum is 150. Above that, the room seats a full Queens guest list in one seating with no partition and no second service. Bring your headcount to the tour and we will walk the floor with the number in hand.
No. The kitchen is in-house and it is the reason the food arrives the way it does. Kosher, halal, vegan, gluten-free, and family recipes are all handled here. If your ceremony requires a certifying authority present, tell us early and we will arrange it.
Yes. Four acres, one couple, gate to gate. Never two.
Yes, and you decide the week of. The Atrium is set either way. There is no rain plan because there is no plan that depends on rain.
Saturdays from May through October go 12 to 18 months out. Fridays, Sundays, and winter dates open closer to six. Send a date and we will tell you honestly what is left.
No. Weddings only. It is why the calendar has room for one a day.
Walked through at your tour, in plain terms, before anything is signed.
Book a Tour
Come at four. Tours run Tuesday through Sunday and we schedule them late on purpose. The Atrium glass does something at that hour that no photograph of it has managed. Send your date and headcount, and we will confirm within one business day.