City Winery Hudson Valley

It's hard to know where to begin! We picked City Winery Hudson Valley for our August 2024 wedding for a few reasons. The most important of them being the gorgeous grounds and event space, the quality of the food, and the fact that the rain plan for the day was just as good as the ideal plan. Working with the CWHV team was always smooth - they communicate effectively, reply promptly, and they never gave us any contradicting information. All team members clearly knew their stuff, but we have to give a shoutout to Stephanie Sanchez who was our main point of contact during the planning process! The nearly year-long process from booking the venue to the wedding day was seamless. The team had been checking in routinely in the months leading up to our day, and because the lines of communication were so open we didn't feel stressed at the end. We knew CWHV was on top of all the details. Come the actual wedding day, we did have to go with the rain plan, but the CWHV team was so flexible in working with us on various space options and I felt really grateful for that. All of our wedding guests remarked that they would never have known that the indoor plan was actually option B because of how beautiful all spaces were. Lastly, it was important to us that the food at our wedding was truly excellent and CWHV did not disappoint. We have had so many guests tell us it was the best food that they have ever had at a wedding! The team also went above and beyond to accommodate guests with food allergies and those small details really made all the difference in their guest experience. Overall, this venue is so unique, gorgeous, professional, and delicious - truly a special place to have a wedding and we will always always always be thrilled with our choice to have our day at CWHV!

When my wife and I walked into City Winery Hudson Valley, we immediately knew we had found the place where we wanted to host our wedding. It is not only stunning as a venue, but every single staff member treated us like family. We worked very closely with Lerika and we could not have asked for a more kind, knowledgeable, and accommodating point person. We knew we would be in good hands after finishing our first tour of the grounds with her. She made us feel confident in what can be a stressful planning process. We have heard nothing but high praise from our guests for the venue, the staff, the food, and the service (even a few months later!). We are so thankful for their efforts and their kindness throughout all of the planning stages. We could not recommend hosting a wedding at City Winery Hudson Valley enough and we can't wait to plan anniversary trips to reminisce over a perfect day over a glass of "New York City Cab Cabernet Sauvignon."

From our very first visit, we were so impressed with the hospitality at City Winery Hudson Valley. We love the rustic industrial space and wanted a venue that could be revisited in other capacities. CWHV certainly outdoes itself in this regard. The food is absolutely delicious and the wine is amazing. The events team, especially Lerika, were so great to work with from start to finish. We had such a wonderful experience having our wedding ceremony, cocktail hour, reception and after party at CWHV.

Beautiful wedding venue. We had a few challenges with the venue double booking the airbnb space on the property, where we were planning to stay that weekend. But the issue was resolved well. City Winery Hudson Valley is an incredible spot for a wedding. There are so many options for each piece of the wedding and they are flexible and accommodating to any requests you may have. Highly recommend!!! We had a great experience overall :)

HAVE YOUR WEDDING HERE!!! Best decision we made and will be yours too. Our guests could not stop talking about what a unique, special and cool venue it was. We had our rehearsal dinner, stay all the way thru our after party there, and it was seamless. The staff there is top notch (specifically Lerika who we predominantly worked with), and our guests even commented on how wonderful the team was. The food is out of this world good (especially for wedding food) and we will be coming back each anniversary. The day was perfect thank you to City Winery and their 10/10 team!!

City Winery Hudson Valley was an amazing choice for our wedding venue! We were looking for somewhere rustic but elegant where the venue would handle the catering and other logistics, and it totally fit the bill. The property is beautiful with many choices of different spaces for each component of the event. Every member of the team is a real professional who is very experienced in putting on events; they were very well-prepared and organized a great schedule that was accommodating to our specific needs and they stayed calm under pressure. The food was delicious and left our guests raving. The only negative I can think of about our experience is that we had a little trouble with City Winery’s responsiveness early on in our wedding planning process (which was probably due to the large number of events they host), but this was rectified with very consistent communication in the immediate lead-up to the event. Despite the fact that they do host a large number of weddings, we felt incredibly special and very well taken care of on our wedding day. Would highly recommend using City Winery for any event in the Hudson Valley!

Our wedding was perfect from start to finish at city winery. The staff was so helpful and accommodating throughout the whole planning process. This place is a well oiled machine. They know exactly how to organize a wedding and took so much of the stress out of it for us!! The atmosphere is gorgeous indoor and outdoor. The food is amazing. All our guests are still raving about it! We had a band and a DJ and the acoustics are ideal for music sound quality. The wait staff was awesome. The boiler bar is such a fun environment for an after party. Seriously can't recommend this place enough for a wedding!! All of our guests keep telling us how classy and fun our wedding was, everything we could have asked for!

We had our wedding at City Winery on 11/22/22 and it was everything I wanted and more. The communication with the staff and coordinator was great. I was having a small intimate wedding (50 people) and they were so flexible on what I wanted to do and helped make it happen. Trust goes both ways and they trusted my thoughts and opinions and I trusted them with the rest! I had my ceremony outside, my wedding was in the gallery room and we had cocktail hour outside on the gallery patio. Our families absolutely love the vibe and the food was delicious. The staff was also amazing, very attentive and kind which means a lot! Thank you so much again for an amazing wedding!

We had an amazing experience getting married at City Winery. Our wedding was in October 2021, and we'd gotten engaged just a few months earlier. They were able to work within our very tight timeline, scheduling the tour and tasting right away, and responding quickly and flexibly with all our menu and setting choices. They worked very well with all our external vendors, and even built our doughnut-tower-cake with the doughnuts we brought up from Brooklyn. On the actual day, it was overcast and slightly rainy, and the staff did such an incredible job accommodating us so we could still have the ceremony and cocktail hour outside, going so far as to set up tents over the seats last minute, and then carrying them over with the guests to the cocktail hour in the Courtyard. The reception went super well too-- our guests are still talking about the food and the enthusiastic wine pours a year later! We just came back to stay there for our 1 year anniversary, and we were so well taken care of again, with a special anniversary dinner, and lots of wine and love from the staff. Aside from the great service, it's just such a beautiful setting, and the food and wine are delicious. Would highly recommend this venue. Thanks City Winery!

My wife & I had an August wedding at City Winery Hudson Valley and had the absolute most incredible experience! As someone who works in events, I was very impressed with their (Lerika’s) level of service not only the day of the event but particularly leading up to the wedding. Lerika was always quick to respond, meet with us, and collaborate to make our vision a reality throughout the entire process. We felt totally taken care of and heard. Our wedding (120 people) fit perfectly & intimately in the Courtyard, the Barrel Room was a great indoor/outdoor cocktail hour and the Main Falls Venue was more than enough space for our ceremony! The food was incredible, service great & since the venue hosts many concerts the DJ’s sound was incredible on their sound speakers. One of the things we enjoyed about City Winery was the ability to “take over” City Winery for the weekend as we booked the Entire Barn for the groomsman & bridesmaid to get ready (and bride & groom sleep the weekend), a sibling lunch to kickoff the weekend & a farewell brunch on the patio. Don’t hesitate to book this venue because there aren’t that many reviews. Book it because it’s truly a step above all the other cookie cutter wedding venues that have been doing weddings the same way for decades!

We were looking for a wedding venue in the Hudson Valley, accessible from the city, that would be warm, inviting, and a great space to hear music. As soon as we saw City Winery Hudson Valley, we knew it was the perfect choice. The space is gorgeous inside and out, and they seamlessly transitioned from the ceremony (which we did indoors) to the cocktail hour, to the reception. It's so great to listen to live music in their space, and our guests were dancing all night. Their food is excellent and worth coming back for regularly (which we plan to do). The City Winery staff was incredibly helpful throughout and made everything feel very easy. We chose City Winery wines as our gift for guests, and there were very, very few left over at the end of the night.

Positives: The actual wedding day was absolutely STUNNING! The staff present the day of were so incredibly attentive and kind. The assistant coordinator for the day at city winery knew everything about my wedding and needs. The assistant coordinator was not who I had been in previous correspondence with, so I was very impressed that the information was shared properly. The food was delicious and the wine/alcohol was wonderful. The set up was beautifully done and everything looked great in the photos. The space is big enough for many photo opportunities. If I were rating the venue solely based off of the wedding day, I would give 5 stars. Negative: communication with the venue leading up to the wedding day was horrible. The main wedding coordinator (not present on the day of the wedding) was very difficult to reach throughout the months leading up to the day. Weeks would go by without a response to my email, so I had to send a lot of double messages. The coordinator was more responsive though when a payment was due, so that was definitely annoying. I am definitely someone who needed to just be kept in the loop on certain things, but the ball was definitely dropped in terms of communication. I was having a microwedding (20 ppl), so I can only imagine how much more irritating this would have been for a larger sized wedding. I would strongly recommend having your own day of coordinator to take care of setting up and cleaning up. The venue will only set up the tablescape. Again, the lead up to the wedding was rocky and anxiety provoking due to overall lack of communication from the venue. However, the day of the wedding did turn out beautifully and the food was delicious.

My wife and I got married at Hudson Valley City Winery earlier this year. Our day itself was amazing, the process leading up to it was challenging at times. In the end we recommend the venue, and look forward to celebrating anniversaries to come there. We first saw the venue in 2020 and instantly fell in love. Following that initial site visit, the planning process with the venue leading up to our day was quite stressful at times to be honest. The event management team was often hard to get a hold of. They were unaccommodating regarding some simple scheduling requests. There seemed to be up-charges often along the way. What our families paid for in regards to the rehearsal dinner and the reception dinner, it leaves me wondering if the cost truly compared to the services provided. There were a few hiccups involving props and display tables on the day of the wedding, which weren't deal breakers, but could've been avoided. My biggest qualm regarding that point (prop/table issues) is that the staff lied and told us there wasn't an issue, despite all of us knowing there was an issue. From our experience, it appears the City Winery Hudson Valley team is running lean and could use more support staff. We hope the location sorts out their staffing issues, because if they do, they would truly be able to bring their service to the next level and fire on all cylinders. That all being said, the venue was beautiful. The staff (servers, bartenders, special events manager, etc.) were attentive, patient, and always willing to help make our experience amazing. The barn proved to be a great and convenient rental choice for the wedding party and families. The food was good, and the wines were great. In summary, if you're a bride/groom who has a type-a personality and likes to be involved in the whole planning process along the way, know you'll probably be testing your patience at times.

I just had my wedding here (summer 2021). I only had a micro wedding with around 45 people. We didn't use the big event space, only the patio and room immediately inside. It was also a destination wedding for us so all of our planning was done remotely. Overall, I think it was a great place to have a wedding and I received many compliments on how nice the wedding was. Here's some details: Venue: The venue is absolutely beautiful. There were so many great places to take photos. Even for family photos during cocktail hour, there were plenty of areas with nice backdrops. We did a cocktail hour in the boiler bar which was a really nice space too and allowed us to easily go outside and do photos. The tables and the place settings were also beautiful. The only con was that it was pretty warm inside. Our wedding was in August and the air conditioning was struggling to keep up. I did walk through the bigger event space and that felt cooler. Food: The food was delicious. We did things pretty causal and did a choice of the hamburger with fries or salmon. Many people complimented the food, even the folks who had hamburgers. For the cocktail hour we just did a self serve table with charcuterie items. It looked beautiful and was pretty good. The staff was very attentive. The only con was that not all the food came out at the same time. But there was also an accident where they dropped a bunch of plates. Ceremony: This and a couple other reasons is why I rated them four stars instead of 5. I'm not sure what happened, but they put way more chairs out than needed. My bridesmaid said they had chairs out for the wedding parties to sit down at, which she had to asked to be removed. They told me it looked like not everyone had shown up since there were a bunch of empty seats but that wasn't the case. I don't know if they were counting the wedding parties and us as guests or what. Also, we didn't hire a DJ but the venue coordinator told us that there were speakers in all areas where we can connect via bluetooth. They also said they help with the ceremony music. They did the pre ceremony and walking down the aisle music correctly, but they didn't play the exit song. Then they started playing the wrong song, then suddenly stopped, then started playing something else. Not a huge deal, but shouldn't have been that complicated. So I recommend other people have more clear instructions or have someone else do it. Pricing/Planning: When I started planning my wedding, I thought I could do it for a lot cheaper than I ended up spending. But when I initially talked to the venue coordinator, she was really nice about working with me and my budget. She came up with something that would fit my small budget. There was some flexibility too, like they waved the cake cutting fee since I opted for no other desserts. It was nice to be able to start small and then add to it with what I wanted. The planning process was okay. I felt like the venue coordinator was really responsive at first, but then over time, it seemed like it took longer and longer to get information and answers to questions. We were a few weeks out from the wedding and I still had no real concept of what it was going to be like. The venue coordinator did finally reach out and set up a meeting two and a half weeks before. It seemed like they knew what was going to happen, I just didn't yet. I recommend just requesting a meeting earlier instead of being like me and being anxious.