Hudson Loft

Hudson Loft is one open industrial floor at 2 South Astor Street in Irvington, looking out at the Hudson through large windows. It runs to nine thousand square feet in total, of which the venue says six thousand six hundred are usable for events. It is a two minute walk from the Irvington Metro-North station, which for a Westchester wedding with a New York City guest list is worth more than most amenities. The venue publishes its own capacities, which many do not: 220 seated with a dance floor, 250 seated without one, and 400 for cocktails. Anyone can book. It is not a club. The rental includes things that are usually rented in: an 8 foot by 15 foot video wall, 400 amps of power, a two zone house sound system, up and down lighting, furniture, china, glassware, staff and a photo booth. The price is where this gets difficult. Two marketplaces quote very different rental fees and the venue publishes none.

The two published rental fees are thousands of dollars apart

Here Comes The Guide lists the rental at $3,500 to $5,000 per event. The breakdown is $4,000 plus tax on a Friday, $5,000 plus tax on a Saturday and $3,500 plus tax on a Sunday, with a separate ceremony fee of $1,000. WeddingWire lists a reception site fee of $2,750 peak and $1,500 off peak, with a ceremony fee of $750.

Those are not small discrepancies. A Saturday is either $5,000 or $2,750 depending on which platform you believe, and the ceremony fee is either $1,000 or $750. A midpoint would be a number nobody quoted, so the table above keeps the two platforms apart. The venue publishes no price at all, so neither figure is first party. Whatever you are quoted will be the first real number in this process.

Ask which day of week rate applies to your date, and ask what the fee buys in hours. Neither marketplace says how long the rental runs, and at a raw space the hours are the product. A Saturday at $5,000 for eight hours and a Saturday at $5,000 for five hours are different venues.

The vendor rules are disputed too, and this one changes your whole budget

Here Comes The Guide records catering as in house and alcohol as in house, with no outside option. WeddingWire records that outside vendors and an outside cake are permitted. The venue’s own site names no caterer and publishes no vendor policy of any kind.

Those two claims describe different businesses. If catering is in house only, the per person rate you cannot currently see is the entire budget. If outside caterers are allowed, this is a raw space you can build on your own terms. Ask the question in exactly those words on your first call, and do not reconcile the two listings yourself.

The capacities are the venue’s own, which makes them the ones to trust

Hudson Loft publishes 220 seated with a dance floor, 250 seated without, and 400 for cocktails. Here Comes The Guide and The Knot both list a higher standing figure of 450, and 250 for a seated ceremony or reception.

Where a venue and a marketplace disagree about a room, the venue is the one that has to fit chairs into it. Plan against 220 with a dance floor, and treat 450 standing as somebody else’s arithmetic.

The 6,600 usable square feet is the number to carry into a floor plan conversation. One open floor means the ceremony, the dinner and the dancing all happen in the same room, with a turnaround between them. Ask how that turnaround is handled and where your guests stand while it happens.

A hundred guests is the floor, according to WeddingWire

WeddingWire lists a minimum of 100 guests to book. That is a headcount floor rather than a dollar food and beverage minimum, and no dollar minimum is published by the venue or by any marketplace. It is also unconfirmed first party, so check it, particularly if your list is in the 70s or 80s.

What the rental actually includes is the strongest part of the record

The venue lists a full catering kitchen, a private dressing suite with its own restroom and an 8 foot by 15 foot video wall. It also lists intelligent up and down lighting, a two zone house sound system, 400 amps of power, a private freight elevator and on site parking. Communal tables, sofas, lounge chairs, china, glassware, staff and a photo booth are described as included in the rental.

Here Comes The Guide adds that the rental covers exclusive facility use, an elevator operator, a porter, a facilities manager and in house tables. At a raw loft, those are exactly the line items that usually appear as surprises in the final invoice, so the list is worth checking against your quote item by item.

Ask what is not included. Staff appear on the venue’s list without a count or a scope, and at a loft the staffing question usually resolves into who sets the room, who clears it, and who is still there at one in the morning. Get that answer before you compare this rental with a full service venue.

The station is a two minute walk, which is worth more than most amenities

Hudson Loft is two minutes on foot from Irvington Metro-North station. For a wedding with a substantial guest list travelling by train, that removes the shuttle, the parking plan and a whole category of late night driving that nobody enjoys arranging.

On site parking is listed as well, along with a private freight elevator, which matters more than it sounds for a third floor venue. Ask how vendors load in, how long that takes, and whether the elevator is shared with the rest of the building on a Saturday.

Exclusivity is implied but never stated, and nothing addresses the end time

The venue makes no exclusivity statement. Here Comes The Guide describes the rental as including exclusive facility use, which implies one event at a time without saying it. Get it stated.

No end time or curfew is published. Amplified music is permitted indoors, per Here Comes The Guide, and the venue is fully indoors with no outdoor ceremony space, so weather is not a live question here. No service charge, administrative fee or tax handling is published anywhere, although the quoted site fees are stated as plus tax.