White Plains club founded in 1913 that takes outside weddings but warns of limited dates, with a Rees Jones course reopened in 2022.
Westchester Hills is a private golf club that does take outside weddings, and it says so in the most persuasive way available: it advertises itself as a public wedding vendor. The club’s own homepage carries a Knot vendor badge linking to its own marketplace listing, plus a WeddingWire partner badge. Its private events page sits outside the member login, carries a public request for information link and a public gallery, and names two booking contacts, Food and Beverage Director Emma Moody and a reception email address. Nothing on the site requires a member sponsor. The club invites enquiries for a milestone birthday, a wedding or a corporate event at 401 Ridgeway in White Plains. It also prints a warning worth taking seriously: limited dates available. The club was founded in 1913, its clubhouse dates to 1926, and its course reopened in 2022 after a full Rees Jones redesign. Pricing is another matter entirely.
Two prices exist and both come from WeddingWire: a $1,500 ceremony site fee and $40 per person for bar service. Neither is a food package rate, and the club publishes nothing. So the number that will decide your budget, the per person catering price, does not exist publicly. Ask the Food and Beverage Director for it, along with the service charge, the administrative fee, the tax treatment, the minimum and the seated capacity of the Grand Room.
The club home page, its events section, its public information page and its membership section at westchesterhills.org, plus listings on The Knot, WeddingWire and Eventective. All fetched 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.
The club warns that only limited dates are available to outside events, so weekend availability is scarce. Capacity is badly contested between marketplaces, 450 on WeddingWire against up to 200 on The Knot, with no first party figure to settle it.
The club describes itself as a family friendly private golf club in the Gedney Farms neighbourhood. That would normally be the end of the conversation in this county. It is not, here. The club runs a public facing private events page outside the member login, with a public request for information link and a public photo gallery. Two booking contacts are named on it: Food and Beverage Director Emma Moody at a troon.com address, and a reception email address for the club.
The decisive detail is the badges. The club embeds a Knot vendor badge on its own homepage, linking to its own Knot marketplace listing, alongside a WeddingWire partner badge. A club that places those on its front page is advertising to the public. Both listings carry no membership caveat, and nothing on the site asks for a member sponsor. The club is managed by Troon.
The private events page says limited dates are available. That is the club telling you that member play and member events come first, and that the calendar released to outside weddings is small.
So ask about dates before anything else. Ask which Saturdays in your target season are actually open to an outside wedding, and ask how far ahead the club releases them. At a club like this the answer will shape your year more than the price will.
Ask what limited means in practice. Some clubs release a fixed number of outside dates each season. Some release whatever the member calendar leaves behind. The two behave very differently when you are trying to hold a date, so ask which model this is.
The club was founded in 1913. The historic clubhouse was originally built in 1926 and remodelled in 2012 ahead of the 1913 to 2013 centennial. The 18 hole championship course was designed by Peter Clark in a Donald Ross inspired style, then redesigned by the architect Rees Jones, debuting in 2022.
The Grand Room is the private event space and was renovated in 2019. It pairs with the Patio for outdoor cocktails. The clubhouse also has a dining room, and WeddingWire names a Round Room. No per room capacity is published by the club for any of them.
The 2022 course reopening is recent enough to be visible. A club that has just spent on a Rees Jones redesign is investing in itself, and the 2019 Grand Room renovation points the same way. Neither tells you what the Grand Room looks like set for a wedding dinner, so ask for photographs of a wedding rather than of the golf.
WeddingWire says the club can take up to 450 guests. The Knot lists it in a 151 to 200 band and says it can host up to 200. Those are marketplace figures that differ by more than a factor of two, and the club publishes no capacity of its own to settle it.
Neither should be presented as authoritative and we are not presenting either. Ask the Food and Beverage Director what the Grand Room seats for a wedding dinner, and get the number in an email rather than on a call.
The club publishes no per person catering rate. Enquiries go to the Food and Beverage Director. WeddingWire lists $40 per person for bar service, covering bartenders, a champagne toast, house beer, house wine, specialty beer and specialty wine. That is a bar figure only, not a food package rate, and no per person food price is published anywhere.
WeddingWire also lists a $1,500 ceremony site fee, the same peak and off peak, stated to include a bridal suite, chairs, china, flatware, glassware, linens, tables, setup, cleanup, parking and event planning. No reception site fee is published. The club publishes no fee of its own, so both figures need confirming.
Nothing is published about the service charge, the administrative fee, a maitre d’ fee, a bridal attendant fee, or a food and beverage minimum. On a club contract those lines usually add a fifth to the total, so ask for them as percentages and ask what they are calculated on.
Because the club is Troon managed, your contacts carry troon.com addresses and your contract may sit with a management company rather than with the club itself. Ask who you are actually contracting with, and who to call if the person you have been dealing with moves on.
The phrase exclusive venue appears on the club’s own events material, but no one event at a time commitment is made anywhere. Member dining and club social events run in the same clubhouse. Ask what else is scheduled on your date and where those members will be.
No end time or curfew is published. The Patio is the outdoor space and no weather contingency is published for it either. Given that the Patio is the cocktail hour, ask what the rain version of your cocktail hour looks like and which room it happens in.
A final note on the setting. The club sits in Gedney Farms, a residential neighbourhood of White Plains, and no end time is published anywhere. Residential streets and late music rarely coexist without a rule, so the absence of a published one almost certainly means there is an unpublished one waiting in the contract.
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