Monteverde at Oldstone 28 Bear Mountain Bridge Rd • Cortlandt Manor • NY 10567

Packages at Monteverde at Oldstone in Cortlandt Manor start at $320 per person and cover six hours of venue time, your food and your alcohol, poured by Monteverde's licensed bartenders. The tented Pavilion comes with a permanent floor, a parquet dance floor, a tent liner, studio lighting, a vanity restroom trailer and a generator, and staff set up 300 white garden chairs for your ceremony. Valet starts an hour before the ceremony. Extras include a 20% administrative fee, added hours at $3,000 each, chandeliers at $200 each plus tax, a $250 lawn game package and the on-site guest rooms.

Yes, both happen on the estate at Monteverde at Oldstone. Ceremonies take place on the Grand Lawn overlooking the Hudson River, with couples making their entrance down a sweeping stone staircase. Cocktail hour moves to the stone patio for fewer than 150 guests or into the Mansion for larger groups, and receptions are held in the tented Pavilion on the West Lawn, which is up from the first week of April to the first week of November. Mansion events can happen year-round, and its first floor holds up to 150 guests without dancing or 110 with dancing.

Food and drinks at Monteverde at Oldstone come from Monteverde only: outside food and beverages aren't allowed, and its licensed bartenders run the bar. Other vendors, like your florist, cake baker and rental company, need to provide a certificate of insurance and follow Monteverde's vendor instructions. A few items have set suppliers: twinkle or pin lights in the tent must come from Stortz Lighting or LNJ Tech, and dance floor extensions from Event Deck. Monteverde recommends a wedding coordinator who has worked in Westchester before.

Wedding packages at Monteverde at Oldstone in Cortlandt Manor start at $320 per person and include six hours of venue time, food and alcohol. There's a 100-guest minimum on any day, and a 20% administrative fee is added. From there, your total moves with your guest count, any extra time (each additional hour is $3,000, added before your start time) and the extras you choose, such as chandeliers at $200 each or $1,000 for all five plus tax, a $250 lawn game package, a pre-ceremony drinks menu or an after-party package. Swapping the tent dance floor for custom flooring is $1,500, and on-site guest rooms are booked and paid for separately.

Your Monteverde at Oldstone package includes six hours, and all music has to end by 11pm. Need more time? Extra hours are $3,000 each and can be added before your start time. Your getting-ready crew can check in to the Bridal Lounge at 10am, and valet runs from an hour before the ceremony to the end of the reception. Want to keep celebrating? After-parties run up to two hours, must end by 1am and need at least 30 guests, and outdoor music has to stay soft under the town's noise rules.

If it rains at Monteverde at Oldstone in Cortlandt Manor, your ceremony moves off the Grand Lawn and under cover: the backup options are the second tent, the main tented Pavilion, or the Mansion or its terrace. In the rain plan, cocktail hour moves into the Mansion. You'll talk through the rain option with the team the week before, and the final call is due by 1pm on your wedding day, so you can watch the forecast that morning. The Pavilion, with its permanent floor, liner and studio lighting, is up from the first week of April to the first week of November.

Your guests can stay right on the estate at Monteverde at Oldstone. The Mansion has the Van Cortlandt Suite (a king for two), the Ludlow Suite (a king plus trundle for four) and the Hope Latham Guest Room (a queen for two, with a hall bath), and the Garden House has six queen rooms, each for two guests with a private bath. All the rooms must be rented together for the inn to open, and reservations are made by phone and paid in full by credit card. Check-in is 2pm, or 3pm if there's an event the day before, and check-out is 11am. Cots are $50 a night plus tax. There's no in-house restaurant service, and cooking in the rooms isn't allowed.

Monteverde at Oldstone is a restored 18th-century estate built around 1760 by the Van Cortlandt family, on 27 wooded acres above the Hudson River in Cortlandt Manor, less than an hour's drive from Manhattan. It hosts one wedding a day, and your whole day stays on the property: vows on the Grand Lawn, cocktails on the stone patio or in the Mansion, and dinner and dancing in the tented Pavilion. Your guests can stay overnight in nine on-site rooms across the Mansion and Garden House. Packages bundle six hours, food and alcohol from $320 per person, and kosher weddings can have a kosher cocktail hour in the second tent.