Venue guide

Wychmere Beach Club Wedding Guide (2027)

Updated October 2026 · Photos by Ariel Grondin Photo

Wychmere Beach Club is a resort on Wychmere Harbor in Harwich Port, on Cape Cod, with three wedding venues looking out over the harbor and Nantucket Sound. Few places on the Cape put a wedding this close to the water. We have played more than a dozen weddings here. Here's everything you need to know before you book.

Where can you get married at Wychmere Beach Club?

Wychmere books three separate venues on one property, each with its own ceremony spot, cocktail space and ballroom. Pick the venue and you have picked the flow of your day. Here is how each one works.

Dune. The newest building and the closest to the beach, with driftwood floors and a rooftop terrace for sunsets. The ceremony happens on the third-floor rooftop deck and cocktail hour stays on the same floor, with a bar inside. Then guests head down to the second floor for dinner and dancing in a square, open room. Once the party moves downstairs it stays inside, so plan the sunset photos for cocktail hour.

The Ocean Room. A square ballroom on the second floor, with an expansive rooftop deck over Wychmere Harbor and Nantucket Sound. The ceremony is usually on the beach or the lawn and cocktail hour is out on the second-floor porch. Dinner and dancing move inside. The deck stays open through the night for guests who want air between songs.

The Harbor Room. A long, white-washed room with floor-to-ceiling views of the harbor. The ceremony is on the lawn just south of the building, cocktail hour spills between the patio and the room. The reception is on the same floor. Of the three, it flows most naturally from one part of the night to the next.

Choose the lawn over the beach

There are three places to say your vows: the Dune rooftop deck, the lawn south of the Harbor and Ocean building and the beach. Toes in the sand sounds perfect. In practice the beach is the hardest of the three.

It is shared with resort guests. On a nice day they have to be cleared off before your guests can sit down. Older guests need golf carts to reach it. There is no power, so every speaker and microphone runs on batteries. And if there is rain anywhere in the forecast, it is off the table.

If you have your heart set on the beach, keep it simple: a battery speaker for the music, the chairs and very little else. Otherwise, pick the lawn.

Plan the ceremony sound for the wind

The Dune rooftop deck is windy. A clip-on lavalier microphone picks up every gust, so we put the officiant on a microphone on a stand with a thick windscreen. Ask your DJ about it before the day. A ceremony nobody can hear is the one mistake you cannot fix afterward.

Keep the dance floor in the center

Dune and the Ocean Room are both square, so the DJ and the dance floor go in the middle of the room. Everyone faces the party and nobody ends up in a dead corner. Some setups used to put the DJ in a corner of the Ocean Room; a centered setup on the south wall makes the dance floor the focus of the night.

The Harbor Room is the exception. It is a long room running north to south with the dance floor in the middle. Without fill speakers at the far ends, the tables at either end hear a quieter, thinner mix than the dance floor. With them, the whole room gets the same night.

Load-in is easiest at Dune. At Harbor and Ocean, vendors come in through a smaller loading area and the kitchen, with a tight turn into the Harbor ballroom, so give your DJ and band time to set up before guests arrive.

Light up the white rooms

Every room at Wychmere is white, which makes it easy to transform with uplighting. In the Harbor Room we light the middle of the room, around the dance floor. Dune and the Ocean Room look best with the whole room lit.

Lock in your rain plan early

Wychmere can run three weddings on one day, so the rain plan is something to settle at booking, not the week of. If the forecast turns, you do not want to be negotiating for space with two other couples.

The venues are not equal in a storm. Dune is the most self-contained: guests can gather at the second-floor bar while the staff turn the room from ceremony to reception. Harbor is next, with its large room and an indoor cocktail space. Ocean has only its own room to fall back on.

Plan for a working resort

Wychmere is a resort, with hotel guests on the property and sometimes another wedding on the same day. Longwood does a good job of keeping the spaces separate. Still, if you want a small, private day, know that going in.

The resort also allows a few things a stand-alone venue cannot. We have seen a bride arrive for a lawn ceremony by boat. It is a great moment. Just do not expect it to land on a music cue: boats never run to the second.

What a Wychmere Beach Club wedding costs

Prices are as of October 2026 and subject to change. Wychmere quotes on request, so treat this as a planning range and confirm it with the events team. What the public listings show:

• Rental fee: $2,000 to $18,000, by day of the week and venue.
• Ceremony: $3,000.
• Food and beverage minimum: $36,000 to $125,000. Saturdays run $65,000 to $125,000, depending on the room.
• Catering and bar: in house.
• Service charge: 23%.
• Season: April through December.

For a summer Saturday, the venue, food and bar come to roughly $95,000 to $175,000, with Dune at the top of that range. Entertainment, flowers, photography and attire are on top.

A moment we still talk about

DJ Max Baun was mid-processional on a wet day when the rain got to his laptop and killed it, music and all. The wedding party was walking.

He had a backup iPod already cued, because he preps every ceremony for damage control. He swapped over and the music kept going. Nobody in the chairs noticed a thing.

That is the job at a seaside venue: plan for the weather to win and make sure the guests never find out.