If you want to get married at the Inn at Longshore during prime picture-taking-by-the-Sound months — April through October — you normally must book it waaaaaay in advance.
(Pro tip: Some brides roll the dice, and grab a date even before grabbing a mate.)
But these are not normal times. The Inn’s owner — Greenwich Hospitality Group — is about to begin an $8 million renovation.
The original timetable was pushed back, after revisions to plans involving an elevator.
So while the Inn is set to close next month, it will open back up in the first week in April. Events and rooms will be available through October. It will then close again, for more work during the slower late fall and winter months of 2025-26.
Artist’s rendering of the new Longshore ballroom.
Because the operators planned to be closed this spring and summer, they did not accept any bookings. Usually, 90 weddings and 40 events would already be scheduled.
In other words: The Inn will be open, but there is nothing on their calendar.
Grab your wedding date now! (Christine Hussey wants to hear from you: chussey@innatlongshore.com.)
The closure sounds like bad news for Inn employees. Fortuitously, the owners — who also own Delamar Hotels in Greenwich, Southport and West Hartford, and are renovating the former Westport Inn — are also opening a 31-room Delamar and event space in Mystic.
Many staff members will head east, to help open that venue.
Meanwhile, La Plage — the Inn’s restaurant — will close for renovations on January 2, after a New Year’s Eve gala, and New Year’s Day brunch. It too will reopen in the spring.
Maybe you can have your rehearsal dinner there too.
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When we lived in Florida, we drove to the town of St. Michael’s which is on the water on eastern shore of Maryland. The bride and groom rented the entire hotel which was built on the water. The guests arrived at the hotel at various times on a Friday , the wedding was held on Saturday. Everyone stayed Friday and Saturday night and left Sunday afternoon. Food was included all weekend, and alcoholic drinks were included all day Saturday, but not on Friday. It was such an unusual event because the partying started Friday evening and didn’t end until Sunday. I can’t remember the name of the hotel, but I’m sure I could find out.
Stop wasting everyone’s time with your tedious side trips down a one-man Memory Lane. No one wants to wade through this backed-up bullshit five times a day.
Thank you….Thank you….Thank you.
Post of the day.
By the way, a traditional Hindu wedding can last up to five days, although most only last for three days.
Leave Jack alone, Prince. Many of us older Westporters enjoy his tales of the past when folks were a lot nicer than they are now. And if you need to swear to make a point, you have a weak mind.
I commented the way I did because the people who own the wedding venue also own hotels, which means if they read my post, they could probably relate to it. They might even be able to duplicate the wedding experience.
My comment was directed at the dill dough formerly known as Prince. Mr. Backiel needs no defense. His family embodied what was once great about Westport and is now but a faint memory.
I’d be hesitant to book an event . Have you ever heard if construction or renovation that ever came in on time ?
Memory Lane has been repaved.
I went to book a side room off the restaurant for a small birthday party years back. I was told no way. 20K minimum. Longshore was purchased for the residents of Westport to use not to make money. My husband has his prom there. No longer. Money talks, nobody walks.
#1 Thanks for sticking up for me, Scooter. #2 Happy Holidays to everyone who comments on 06880.
Jack: Thank you for all your comments. I find them interesting and a keen perspective from where we once were and now have become. Merry Merry. CAS
Merry Merry, Jack! I am happy to read your comments. Some folks are getting coal in their stockings this year and it’s not you!
Susan, Thank you so much. I will tell you this. There isn’t enough coal in the entire state of West Virginia to fill the stockings of some people! But with you, there aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how thoughtful and caring and kind you are!
Jack, I enjoy your comments and your memories of
Westport circa 1950. Keep ‘em coming!
Bob Grant, I already have five comments, so I’m hoping I can borrow a comment from someone else so I can personally thank you for your support and kind words. (Remember when we used to play kickball off Quintard Place with Ralph Soupee (sp) around 1959-1960? Those were the days!)
Jack, thinking you might have been talking about the “Inn at Perry Cabin” in MD. It’s a beautiful spot for a wedding. 😊
I just checked and it was Wades Point Inn on the Bay. But I want to reconfirm it with the groom. You must know the eastern shore well though.
I was during the Monaco Grand Prix last year and I decided to see the places where we can celebrate our wedding, before my fiancé told me about this magical place in Longshore,
very interesting