1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge Wedding Guide (2027): Cost, Capacity & Everything to Know

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge stands at the foot of Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, on the strip of waterfront where Brooklyn Heights meets DUMBO. It opened in February 2017 as the first hotel the 1 Hotels brand built from the ground up, and the materials tell you where you are: heart-pine beams salvaged from the Domino Sugar refinery, granite from the quarry that supplied the Brooklyn Bridge and a 25-foot wall of living plants in the lobby.

What you are buying is a waterfront wedding where nobody needs a shuttle. Guests get ready upstairs, the ceremony and dinner happen at park level in the Meadow Rue ballroom, the after-party is on the 10th floor and bed is an elevator ride away.

One thing to know before you tour: the skyline in the photographs is upstairs, at Harriet’s. The ballroom looks onto the park.

For 2027, the three packages are $475, $550 and $650 per guest, which comes to about $650, $755 and $890 once the hotel’s fees and sales tax are added. A complete wedding for 150 lands between $150,000 and $210,000.

• Location: 60 Furman Street, Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, between DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights
• Venue type: Contemporary 195-room waterfront hotel with a park-level ballroom, a 10th-floor lounge and a rooftop
• 2027 packages: $475, $550 or $650 per guest. About $650, $755 or $890 with fees and tax
• Ceremony fee: $3,500
• Fees: 17% gratuity, 9% administration fee, 8.875% sales tax
• Dinner capacity: Meadow Rue seats 400, or about 300 with a dance floor
• Sweet spot: 150 to 200 guests
• Rain plan: Built in. The whole wedding runs indoors at park level
• Rooms: 195 rooms and suites. One night for the couple is included
• Catering: The hotel’s own kitchen. Five-hour bar, three-course plated dinner and a Ron Ben-Israel cake in every package
• Typical total budget: $150,000 to $210,000 for 150 guests*
• Closest airport: LaGuardia, 35 to 70 minutes by car
• Best for: Couples who want the Brooklyn waterfront, a real hotel upstairs and no weather risk
• Main consideration: The ballroom faces the park. For the skyline, add the rooftop or the lounge

*RoamRecs planning estimate. 

This is the easiest wedding to host on the Brooklyn waterfront, and the ease is the point. The lofts and warehouses nearby give you a shell and a list of things to rent. Here the kitchen, the bar, the cake, the staff and 195 bedrooms come with the building. Your guests arrive at one address on Friday and do not need a car again until they leave.

The hotel feels like the park came indoors: reclaimed timber, raw stone, plants on every surface and glass walls that slide open. It photographs warm and green, closer to a Hudson Valley lodge than a hotel ballroom. Couples who want chandeliers and gilt should look in Manhattan.

Be clear about the geography before you fall for the pictures. Meadow Rue, where you will eat and dance, is on the park level, with trees and lawn through the glass. The bridge and the Manhattan skyline are at Harriet’s Lounge on the 10th floor and Harriet’s Rooftop on the 11th. The best weddings here use both: vows or cocktails upstairs at golden hour, dinner downstairs, then back up to the lounge for the after-party.

The sweet spot is 150 to 200 guests. That fills Meadow Rue with tables and still leaves a proper dance floor. Under 100, look at Blue Wood Aster, the smaller room with a balcony over the water, before paying for a ballroom you will only half use.

On money, book the entry package. All three include the same five-hour bar and plated dinner, and the $475 tier already comes with the cake and a night upstairs. Spend the difference on the rooftop and the band.

Best for: a guest list flying in, a couple who would rather choose a menu than manage ten suppliers, and anyone who does not want to watch a forecast.

Think twice if: you want skyline views from your dinner table, your own caterer, or a wedding under $100,000.

The hotel sells weddings as three per-guest packages, and these are the 2027 prices. Each covers the cocktail hour, a three-course plated dinner, a five-hour bar, the cake and a night upstairs for the two of you.

• Sprouting Love: $475 per guest, about $650 all in
• Blooming Love: $550 per guest, about $755 all in
• Blossom Love: $650 per guest, about $890 all in

The menu price carries a “++”. That means a 17% gratuity, a 9% administration fee and 8.875% sales tax go on top, which adds roughly 37%. The all-in figures above include them. An on-site ceremony is $3,500, or about $4,800 with the same charges.

What every package includes

• A cocktail hour with passed canapés and food stations
• A three-course plated dinner with a choice of two entrées and a vegetarian option
• Wine poured at the table and a five-hour open bar
• A wedding cake by Ron Ben-Israel, one of New York’s best-known cake designers
• A menu tasting for two
• One night in a room with a bridge or skyline view

Think of it as the full food-and-drink side of the wedding, handled. Flowers, music, photography, lighting and a planner are yours to bring.

Which package to book

Sprouting Love is the one we would book. It has six canapés, two stations and the Deluxe bar, and nobody at your wedding will feel shortchanged.

Blooming Love adds two more canapés and a third station. Dinner and the bar stay the same. At 150 guests that is about $15,000 more for a fuller cocktail hour, which is hard to justify unless the cocktail hour is your favorite part of a wedding.

Blossom Love is a real step up: the Premium bar, ten canapés, a raw bar or sushi station, late-night snacks and a studio suite for the night. It costs about $36,000 more than Sprouting at 150 guests. Choose it if top-shelf spirits and a raw bar matter to your crowd. If it is the suite you want, upgrade the room on its own.

What the hotel bill comes to

Package plus ceremony, with gratuity, administration fee and tax included:

• 100 guests: Sprouting $70,000. Blooming $80,000. Blossom $94,000.
• 150 guests: Sprouting $103,000. Blooming $118,000. Blossom $139,000.
• 200 guests: Sprouting $135,000. Blooming $156,000. Blossom $183,000.

For a wedding under 100, ask the hotel to quote Blue Wood Aster alongside Meadow Rue before you settle on a room.

Extras worth knowing

• An extra hour of bar: $20 per guest on the Deluxe bar, $30 on Premium. For 150 guests, about $4,300 all in for the hour.
• Late-night food: fries $40 per guest, sliders $49, Brooklyn flatbreads or bao $52, a pizza, pretzel and hot dog station $63, cookies and cannoli $35.
• Extra dinner choices: $15 for a second starter, $25 for a third entrée, $12 for a second dessert, per guest.

The late-night stations are priced per head and add up fast. Fries for 150 pass $8,000 with fees. Order for the number who will still be dancing at 11 p.m., and remember that Blossom already includes a late-night snack.

A well-produced wedding here in May, June or September 2027 lands in these ranges. They are RoamRecs planning estimates for an on-site ceremony and a five-hour reception on the Sprouting Love package.

• 100 guests: $115,000 to $165,000
• 150 guests: $150,000 to $210,000
• 200 guests: $190,000 to $255,000

Here is where the money goes at 150 guests:

• Hotel: package, ceremony, fees and tax: $103,000
• Planner: $8,000 to $15,000
• Photography and video: $12,000 to $20,000
• Flowers and design: $12,000 to $25,000
• Lighting, rentals and sound: $6,000 to $15,000
• Band or DJ: $5,000 to $12,000
• Guest transport, officiant, stationery: $3,500 to $8,000

Add a 10% cushion on everything except the hotel and you arrive at the range above.

Three things move the total. The package: Blooming adds about $15,000 at this size and Blossom about $36,000. The rooftop: vows or cocktails at Harriet’s are booked on top of the ballroom. Ambition: these figures buy a handsome, well-run wedding. A 12-piece band or a ceiling of flowers will take you past them.

The ranges leave out a welcome party, the after-party, a farewell brunch and guests’ hotel rooms.

Meadow Rue seats 400 for dinner with tables wall to wall, and about 300 once you add a dance floor and a band. It is at its most comfortable with 150 to 200.

• Meadow Rue (park level): Dinner and dancing. 5,545 sq. ft., 400 seated, 450 standing. Divides into two rooms.
• Social Spaces (park level): Cocktails. Two lounges of 2,786 and 1,985 sq. ft. between the ballroom and the park, with their own bar.
• Blue Wood Aster: Smaller weddings and rehearsal dinners. 1,903 sq. ft., 150 for a ceremony, 200 standing, with a balcony over the waterfront.
• Harriet’s Lounge (10th floor): After-party or welcome drinks. 2,800 sq. ft., 100 to 150 standing, bridge and skyline through the glass.
• Harriet’s Rooftop (11th floor): Ceremony or cocktails in good weather. Open air, the full Lower Manhattan panorama.
• Barbuto: Rehearsal dinner or farewell brunch. Jonathan Waxman’s Italian restaurant, with windows onto the park.

How we would use the hotel

Vows on Harriet’s Rooftop an hour before sunset, cocktails up there while the light goes gold on the skyline, then everyone down to Meadow Rue for dinner and dancing. After the last song, the party moves to Harriet’s Lounge. That sequence gives you the view, the dinner and the late night, and no guest ever leaves the building.

If the rooftop is not in the budget, hold the ceremony in one half of Meadow Rue and cocktails in the Social Spaces with the doors toward the park. The staff turn the ballroom for dinner while guests have a drink in their hands.

Meadow Rue is a long room, roughly 110 feet by 50. Put the band and the dance floor in the middle of the long wall with tables on either side. Set at one end, half your guests are watching the party from a distance.

Blue Wood Aster is the pick for 60 to 100 guests. It has floor-to-ceiling glass and a balcony over the water, and a wedding that size feels like it owns the place.

The lobby, the pool deck and the park lawn stay public. Keep the party in the rooms you have booked, and clear any lobby or pool-deck portraits with the hotel in advance.

The rain plan is the plan. Ceremony, cocktails, dinner and dancing all happen indoors at park level, so a wet Saturday changes your portraits and nothing else. This is the strongest practical argument for the hotel over the open-air venues along the same waterfront.

The one part exposed to weather is the rooftop. If you book it for the ceremony or cocktails, reserve the indoor fallback in the same contract: Harriet’s Lounge one floor down for a smaller group, or Meadow Rue and the Social Spaces for a full guest list. Agree who makes the call and by what hour on the day.

Wind matters as much as rain up there. The roof is eleven floors above an open harbor, so skip tall arrangements and unweighted programs, and tell anyone with a veil.

For wet-weather portraits, ask the hotel for ten minutes at the lobby’s green wall, or take umbrellas to the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, about ten minutes on foot.

Yes. The hotel has 195 rooms and suites, enough for most of a wedding to sleep under one roof. Standard kings sleep two. Some two-bed rooms and the studio suites sleep four, which suits families and groups of friends.

The rooms are the hotel’s best feature after the location. Each has a floor-to-ceiling window that slides open, and the river side looks at the bridge, the skyline or the Statue of Liberty. Your included night comes with one of those views.

Booking the block

Group rates start at eight rooms. Three things to settle when you negotiate:

• The amenity fee. The hotel adds $49 per room per night to the rate. Ask for it to be waived for your block. On 40 rooms over two nights it is nearly $4,000 of your guests’ money.
• The night before. Check-in is 4 p.m. and checkout is noon, and the package covers the wedding night only. Book a suite from the day before so hair and makeup can start at 9 a.m. in your own room.
• The release date. Find out when unsold rooms go back to the hotel and whether you owe anything for them.

Tell guests the full nightly cost, fee and tax included, so nobody is surprised at checkout. The hotel also holds $250 a day on each guest’s card for incidentals.

Where should the other guests stay?

Rooms here are among the most expensive in Brooklyn, so give guests a second option. Keep it in Downtown Brooklyn, 10 to 20 minutes away by car, and name one hotel so a shuttle has a single pickup.

New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams Street. The practical block: a large full-service hotel that can take a big group. Warn guests about the name. It is inland, and people do book it thinking it is the wedding hotel.

Hilton Brooklyn New York, 140 Schermerhorn Street. A newer, smaller alternative on a quieter street, close to the restaurants of Boerum Hill.

Hampton Inn Brooklyn/Downtown, 125 Flatbush Avenue Extension. The value choice for friends on a budget.

Guests who want Manhattan for sightseeing will be fine. Suggest the Financial District or the Lower East Side, which are one bridge away, over Midtown.

The food

Catering is the hotel’s own, and it is a strength. The kitchen cooks to the season and buys from farms around the region, and the menus include vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes as a matter of course. Pass on allergies early.

The cocktail hour runs one hour and dinner about two, both inside the five-hour bar. Keep speeches to the gap between courses so the kitchen can hold its timing.

If you need a kosher or South Asian caterer, or want to bring a family member’s wine, raise it in your first conversation with the hotel.

Hire a planner

The hotel’s events team runs the room, the kitchen and the staff. Your planner runs everything else: the florist, the band’s load-in, the timeline, the rooftop weather call and the move between floors. With a ceremony, a ballroom and an after-party on three levels, it is money well spent.

Suppliers will need insurance certificates and a delivery slot at the hotel’s loading entrance. Choose a florist, band and lighting team who have worked a New York hotel before.

Music, and the party after the party

The rooftop has a 60-decibel sound limit, about the level of conversation. That suits vows, a string trio and cocktails. Dancing belongs downstairs in Meadow Rue, where a full band is at home.

A five-hour bar that opens with a 6 p.m. cocktail hour closes at 11 p.m. The hotel’s own suggestion for what comes next is Harriet’s Lounge on the 10th floor, with the bridge lit up outside. Book it as a separate event with its own bar, and tell guests in advance so they pace themselves.

An early bus or a line of cars at 10 p.m. is a kindness to grandparents staying elsewhere.

The simplest ceremony is in the hotel, in Meadow Rue or Blue Wood Aster. It adds $3,500 to the package, keeps the day in one building and needs no weather plan.

The rooftop is the upgrade. The skyline is directly behind you, the sun sets over the harbor and guests walk straight into cocktails.

Brooklyn Bridge Park is the third option, and it is a different kind of ceremony. The park issues permits for three spots: Pier 1’s Granite Prospect, the Empire Fulton Ferry boardwalk and Pebble Beach at Main Street. The permit is $426. The limits are 100 guests, 90 minutes, ten folding chairs and no amplified sound, with the public walking past. Applications for the following year open on December 1. It works for a short, standing ceremony with a small group. For 150 seated guests, stay at the hotel.

For the legal side, a New York City marriage license costs $35 and must be issued at least 24 hours before the ceremony. A friend can officiate with a one-day license from the City Clerk for $25.

Tell guests to fly into LaGuardia if they have the choice. It is the closest of the three airports, and all of them work.

• LaGuardia (LGA): 35 to 70 minutes by car
• JFK: 45 to 90 minutes by car
• Newark (EWR): 45 to 90 minutes by car

Put the full name and “60 Furman Street” on the invitation and the wedding website. Drivers hear “the Brooklyn Bridge hotel” and head for the Marriott on Adams Street, inland in Downtown Brooklyn.

By subway, the closest stops are High Street on the A and C, 10 to 15 minutes on foot, and York Street on the F, 15 to 20 minutes. The walk from High Street drops down through the park and is the prettier of the two.

The insider arrival is by water. The NYC Ferry’s East River route stops at DUMBO/Fulton Ferry, a few minutes’ walk from the hotel, and connects to Wall Street, Midtown and Williamsburg. Suggest it for the welcome drinks, when nobody is in heels or in a hurry.

Do wedding guests need a car?

No. Guests staying at the hotel walk everywhere all weekend. Guests in Downtown Brooklyn are a 10-minute cab ride away, and for a large group there a shuttle on the wedding night is worth booking. The hotel’s electric house car is a nice touch for a short hop, and it is not a shuttle.

Anyone who does drive will pay for valet: $44 for up to three hours, $54 for up to six and $90 overnight. Ask about a hosted rate if many guests are driving in from Long Island or New Jersey.

Early June is our pick, then September, then late May.

• May: average high 71°F, low 55°F
• June: average high 80°F, low 64°F
• July: average high 85°F, low 70°F
• August: average high 83°F, low 69°F
• September: average high 76°F, low 62°F
• October: average high 65°F, low 51°F

National Weather Service averages for Central Park. The waterfront runs a few degrees cooler and breezier.

June gives you the longest evenings. Sunset is around 8:30 p.m., so a 7 p.m. rooftop ceremony finishes in golden light and cocktails run into dusk with the skyline switching on.

September has the clearest air and the most reliable warmth. Sunset moves to about 7 p.m. by mid-month, so start the ceremony at 5:30.

May is green and fresh and can be cool on the roof after dark. Have wraps on hand.

July and August are hot and humid. Keep any rooftop time short and late, and lean on the air-conditioned ballroom.

October means a 6 p.m. sunset and a jacket on the roof. Plan portraits before the ceremony.

Winter suits this hotel better than most. The whole wedding is indoors anyway, the timber-and-stone interiors come into their own and January to March is when New York room rates are lowest.

With everyone under one roof, a three-day weekend plans itself.

Friday. Welcome drinks at Harriet’s Lounge at sunset, then let people scatter for pizza under the bridge. Keep it loose. The view does the hosting.

Saturday. A slow morning: the rooftop pool for hotel guests, the Bamford spa for the wedding party, a walk in the park for everyone else. Ceremony in the early evening, dinner in Meadow Rue, then upstairs to the lounge.

Sunday. Brunch at Barbuto, with its doors toward the park. Make it drop-in, from 10 a.m. to noon, so guests with flights can eat and go.

For guests with a free afternoon

Put these on the wedding website. All of them are a walk from the hotel.

• The Brooklyn Bridge, early. The walkway is at its best before 9 a.m. Cross to Manhattan on foot and come back on the ferry.
• Brooklyn Bridge Park. Pier 1’s lawns start at the hotel door. Jane’s Carousel, a restored 1922 merry-go-round in a glass pavilion, is ten minutes north along the water.
• Washington Street. The famous view of the Manhattan Bridge framed by brick warehouses. Go before 10 a.m. to have it to yourself.
• Brooklyn Heights. Take the footbridge from the park up to the Promenade and wander the brownstone blocks behind it.
• Pizza on Old Fulton Street. Juliana’s and Grimaldi’s sit side by side under the bridge and the argument over which is better is part of the fun.
• Empire Stores. The old coffee warehouses on the waterfront, now home to Time Out Market and a public roof terrace.

A note for the portraits: the park allows wedding photography without a permit for groups of 20 or fewer with handheld equipment. Pebble Beach and the Pier 1 lawn at golden hour are the two places to go.

Best for

• Weddings of 150 to 200 guests
• Guest lists with a lot of people flying in
• Couples who want the food, bar and cake handled by one team
• A natural, green, modern look instead of a classic ballroom
• Anyone who wants a weather-proof wedding by the water
• A full weekend in one building: welcome drinks, wedding, after-party, brunch

Things to consider

• The ballroom faces the park, and the skyline views are upstairs
• Fees and tax add about 37% to the package price
• The rooftop and the lounge are booked on top of the ballroom
• Catering is in-house
• Guest rooms are expensive, with a $49 nightly fee on top
• The rooftop is limited to quiet music

These are the questions a good planner would put to the hotel before you sign. The answers shape the contract more than the package price does.

1. What is the food-and-beverage minimum for our date, and do the gratuity, administration fee and tax count toward it?
2. Which rooms are held for us and for which hours, and what time must the music end?
3. What does it cost to add Harriet’s Rooftop for the ceremony or cocktails, and which indoor room is held if the weather turns?
4. How many can Meadow Rue seat with the dance floor and band we have in mind? May we see a floor plan?
5. What does the $3,500 ceremony fee cover: chairs, sound, a rehearsal?
6. Which tables, chairs, linens and lighting are included, and what would we rent?
7. What does Harriet’s Lounge cost for an after-party, and how late can it run?
8. Can late-night stations be ordered for fewer guests than the dinner count?
9. Will you waive the amenity fee for our room block, and what is the release date?
10. Can we have a suite from the night before, or guaranteed early check-in for getting ready?
11. Do you allow an outside kosher or South Asian caterer, our own wine, or a different cake?
12. Are there required suppliers for sound, lighting or power, and what are the load-in times?
13. Can we take portraits in the lobby and on the pool deck?
14. What are the deposit, the payment schedule, the final guest-count date and the cancellation terms?
15. Are the 2027 package prices held for our date once we sign?

Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg. The closest in spirit: another Brooklyn hotel wedding with rooms upstairs, in a converted 1901 factory with brick and timber where 1 Hotel has glass and greenery. It is smaller. The main hall seats 150 from April to November and 120 in winter. Choose it for a guest list under 150 and a more industrial look.

The River Café, DUMBO. Five minutes’ walk away, on a barge under the Brooklyn Bridge, with the skyline at every table. It takes 30 to 100 guests. Choose it if the view from dinner is the whole point and your list is small. Guests sleep elsewhere, and 1 Hotel is the obvious place.

Liberty Warehouse, Red Hook. Choose it for a big guest list and a raw, waterfront loft with the Statue of Liberty off the deck. It seats well over 300. You give up the hotel: Red Hook has few rooms and no subway, so every guest needs a ride.

The RoamRecs New York City Wedding Venues collection maps hotels, lofts, restaurants and landmark venues across the five boroughs, with price, capacity and rooms for each. Save 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, add two or three alternatives and compare them side by side.

The question to carry through your shortlist: how much is it worth to have everyone in one building, by the water, with no weather to worry about? If that is the wedding you have been picturing, a ballroom that looks at trees instead of towers is a fair trade, and the towers are an elevator ride away.