Park Chateau Estate & Gardens
East Brunswick, NJ · Middlesex County
From $160 per person (estimate)
A short, honest guide to the Central Jersey venues our team has toured, with guest counts, estimated prices and a 360° walk-through of each.
Central Jersey sits between New York and Philadelphia, along the New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 287, which makes it a practical meeting point for families coming from both directions. The Central Jersey venues our team has toured are in East Brunswick and Somerset (Middlesex and Somerset counties), about 50 minutes to an hour from Manhattan.
Park Chateau Estate & Gardens is a French château estate with gardens and a private chapel. It hosts up to 375 guests, with an estimate of $160–$350+ per person. Next door, on the same grounds, Chateau Grande Hotel is a boutique hotel venue for smaller weddings of up to 135 guests, with hotel rooms on site, and an estimate of $150–$275 per person.
Palace at Somerset Park is built for big celebrations: a Palladian-style villa that hosts up to 600 guests, with indoor and outdoor ceremony space. Its estimate is for the whole event rather than per person: starting at $25,000 total.
For the ceremony, Park Chateau Estate & Gardens, Chateau Grande Hotel and Palace at Somerset Park offer an outdoor setting, and Park Chateau Estate & Gardens has a chapel on the grounds. Per-person estimates here run from about $150 to $350+. They are estimates for planning: your date, guest count and menu change the final number, so confirm it with each venue.
One more venue sits just south of Central Jersey. Inn at Fernbrook Farms is a working farm estate in Chesterfield, Burlington County, about 20 minutes from Princeton and about 90 minutes from Manhattan. It hosts one wedding at a time, for up to 200 guests, and its estimate is a site fee plus catering; the figures are on the venue's page.
This is a short list on purpose. Every venue here has been walked and photographed by our team, so the 360° tour shows the real rooms as guests see them. If you are open to a slightly longer drive, the North Jersey guide has more to compare.
East Brunswick, NJ · Middlesex County
From $160 per person (estimate)
East Brunswick, NJ · Middlesex County
From $150 per person (estimate)
Somerset, NJ · Somerset County
Starting at $25,000 total (estimate)
Burlington County is outside Central Jersey, but it is a short drive from Princeton, so we show it here for couples looking in the area.
Chesterfield, NJ · Burlington County
Site fee $10,000–$25,000, plus catering (estimate)
Prices are estimates for planning. Confirm current pricing with each venue.
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Park Chateau Estate & Gardens, Chateau Grande Hotel and Palace at Somerset Park offer an outdoor ceremony. Ask each venue where the ceremony moves if it rains, and how late that decision can be made.
Park Chateau Estate & Gardens hosts one wedding at a time, according to the venue's own information. Elsewhere, ask how arrivals, cocktail hour and parking are kept separate when two events share a day.
They range from up to 135 guests at Chateau Grande Hotel to up to 600 at Palace at Somerset Park. Each card shows the venue’s own guest range.
The estimates on these venues' pages run from about $150 to $350+ per person. Chateau Grande Hotel has the lowest starting estimate, from about $150 per person. Palace at Somerset Park prices by site fee or event total instead of per person. These are estimates for planning. Your date, guest count and menu change the final number, so confirm it with each venue.
Palace at Somerset Park is the closest, about 50 minutes from Manhattan. The farthest, Chateau Grande Hotel and Park Chateau Estate & Gardens, are about an hour away. Times are approximate and depend on traffic.
Park Chateau Estate & Gardens has a chapel on the grounds. Palace at Somerset Park has an indoor ceremony space. An indoor space is also the rain plan for an outdoor ceremony.