A 1911 White Plains mansion whose ballroom seats 225 with a dance floor, catered exclusively by Caperberry Events.
The Grand Ballroom at CV Rich Mansion seats 225 with a dance floor in the room and 250 without one, under ceilings the caterer measures at 50 feet. That is the first party figure. It is not the only figure. The Woman’s Club of White Plains, which bought the house and four acres for $87,000 in the early 1930s and still owns it, publishes a ballroom capacity of up to 220. Eventective lists 230. The Knot lists a band of 50 to 220. Nobody here is lying to you. There is simply no single authoritative count, and a couple planning for 240 people needs that settled in writing before a deposit moves. Anyone can book the place. The mansion belongs to a private club, but the building is openly offered for outside rental, and The Knot and WeddingWire both list it with starting prices and no membership caveat. The structure worth understanding is the split. The Woman’s Club owns the house. Caperberry Events holds catering exclusivity. A couple serving food and drink signs with the caterer.
Treat every dollar figure on this page as a marketplace listing, because the venue publishes none of its own. The $27 is bar service, not dinner. The $8,000 start and the $17,500 typical spend come from The Knot and exclude service charges, tax and gratuity, which at Westchester catering halls commonly add a fifth again or more. Ask Caperberry for a written quote at your guest count, with the service charge and administrative fee shown as percentages, and ask what the ballroom seats once the dance floor is in.
We read cvrich.com, which now redirects to the caperberryevents.com microsite, plus that site’s ballroom, services and wedding pages. We also read the Woman’s Club of White Plains history and rentals page. On the marketplaces we read The Knot listing for Caperberry Events at CV Rich Mansion and the Eventective listing for the same address. All on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
Capacity is published four different ways, 220, 225, 230 and 250, by the caterer, the building owner and two marketplaces. There is no authoritative number, and the owner also offers half house rentals, so exclusive use of the mansion is not automatic.
The mansion went up in 1911 as a summer house for a stockbroker, in Italian Renaissance Revival style, according to the Woman’s Club of White Plains. In 1916 it was bought by Charles Vanderlip Rich, who lived there with his wife, two children and seven servants. The club acquired the house and four acres of what had been a 41 acre estate for $87,000 in 1931 or 1932, and has held it since.
The venue’s own wedding page tells it differently. There the house is a 1910 Victorian mansion on five acres. We have not reconciled the two, because we cannot. Both descriptions are published by parties with a claim to know, and we print both rather than pick a winner. If the architectural history matters to you, ask the Woman’s Club, which is the owner and the source with the deeper records.
The acreage moves too. The owner says four acres came with the house. The caterer sells five acres of grounds. That gap is small in practice and worth a question anyway, because the grounds are where the ceremony happens and the difference between four acres and five is the difference between a garden and a buffer from the street.
The wedding page names two separate ceremony locations in the gardens on the grounds, plus two bridal suites. Indoors there is the Grand Ballroom, a Sunroom and a Living Room. Custom uplighting is included at no extra charge, which is a small thing that shows up as a line item at plenty of other venues.
What is not published anywhere is what happens when it rains. Two garden ceremony sites are advertised. No indoor backup arrangement is stated, no tent is mentioned, and there is no published cut off time for making the call. Get the wet weather plan into the contract, including who decides and by what hour.
The practical version of that question is narrower than it sounds. If the ceremony moves indoors, it moves into a room that also has to hold dinner. Ask what the turnaround looks like, how long it takes, and where 200 people stand while it happens.
Caperberry Events is described on the venue’s services page as the exclusive catering partner. Service styles offered are plated, buffet and station, and passed plate. There is no published rate card and no menu pricing. The old menus page at cvrich.com returned a 404 when we checked on 11 September 2026.
The owner, separately, lists events without catering as a rental option. So the exclusivity covers food, and the building itself is rentable on other terms. For florists, music and photography the venue publishes no approved list and no outside vendor fee, which usually means those categories are open. It is unstated rather than confirmed. Ask.
This split is the single structural fact to hold onto here. Two organisations have an interest in the building. The Woman’s Club owns it and rents it. Caperberry holds the catering. A wedding with dinner and a bar is a Caperberry contract, and the questions about the house itself may have to travel through them to the owner and back.
The venue publishes no per person price on its site, its services page or its wedding page. The one per person figure we found anywhere is on The Knot: $27 per person, and the listing is explicit that this covers bar service only. Catering itself shows as contact for price.
The same Knot listing carries an $8,000 starting price, a typical spend of $17,500, a $2,000 reception space charge and a $500 ceremony space charge. It notes that starting prices exclude service fees, taxes, gratuity and rental fees. Eventective publishes a different rental figure for the same building, $1,000 to $4,750 per event. Both are marketplace numbers. Neither is the venue’s own rate.
Notice what those two rental figures do to each other. The Knot lists a reception space charge of $2,000 and a ceremony space charge of $500 as separate lines. Eventective lists a single venue rental fee of $1,000 to $4,750 per event. Those are not flatly contradictory, but they are not the same claim either, and nobody has published which of them a wedding actually triggers. Ask Caperberry what the room costs for your date, as a separate line from the food.
No food and beverage minimum is published. No guest minimum is published either. The Knot’s 50 to 220 range is a capacity band and should not be read as a floor you have to hit.
No end time or curfew appears on the venue site or the owner’s rental page. The mansion sits on Ridgeway in a residential part of White Plains, and residential neighbours are the usual reason a curfew exists. Assume there is one and ask what it is.
Exclusive use is also unstated. The Knot’s listing asserts one wedding per day, but the venue itself makes no such promise. The building owner offers half house rentals, which means the house can be divided. If you want the whole mansion for the whole day, that has to be written down.
cvrich.com still resolves, but it now redirects to the Caperberry microsite, and several of the old deep links no longer work. The menus page and the venue page both return 404. If you have an old bookmark, a saved menu or a quote that references a cvrich.com page, that page may not exist any more.
This matters for one practical reason. Anything you were shown or sent more than a year or two ago should be re-confirmed against what Caperberry is selling now, including menu content and what the uplighting covers.
Four things, in this order. Which of the four published ballroom counts, 220, 225, 230 or 250, Caperberry will actually contract to, in writing. The service charge and administrative fee percentages, which nobody publishes. The end time. And whether the building is yours alone that day.
The last one is the sleeper. The owner sells half house rentals, so the mansion is designed to be split. A second event in the other half on a Saturday afternoon would change what your photographs look like and where your guests park, and nothing published rules it out.
Same building, different contract. The Woman’s Club of White Plains owns C.V. Rich Mansion and rents the house itself. Caperberry Events is the catering operation that runs events in it. The two publish different capacities for the same ballroom, 225 against 220. Read both pages before you decide who you are actually signing with.
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