The Deauville Inn Reviews

The Deauville was the perfect place for our ~130 person wedding! It was elegant and beautiful, while feeling laid back and intimate. The ceremony and reception were gorgeous, and the staff went above and beyond to make sure every detail was perfect and exactly what we wanted. The events team (Judy + team) did a spectacular job. It has been about 6 months since our wedding, and we still have guests who rave about how beautiful every detail was, and how much fun they had. We wish we could relive it a thousand times over!

I made a list of all of the things that were most important to us about the ceremony (toes in the sand), the reception look and feel (outdoors and laid back) and what it would be like to work with the venue and the coordinators and the other vendors (easy and detailed). We searched thoroughly because we wanted a place that would deliver a nearby location for a whole weekend. The Deauville Inn was ideal and working with Judy was perfect. Judy guided me through all of the details, was responsive and in touch all the way -- giving me the tools that I needed to make decisions, including great vendor recommendations. Our day was perfect -- and I remember every moment including the entire ceremony (thank you to Judy for telling me to breathe before you sent me on my way!) The Deauville Inn has a great set up -- the food is terrific, the setting is beautiful and the whole staff was a pleasure to work with. Thank you for giving us the most beautiful memories!!

The Deauville is amazing! They made our wedding perfect!! Judy(the coordinator) is phenomenal. She helps you every step of the way and was extremely professional. I highly recommend the Deauville as a wedding venue!!

Everyone at the Deauville Inn was so great and nice to work with. Judy was very easy to get in contact with and super accommodating. The food was absolutely delicious and the views at the Deauville Inn were absolutely amazing.

My husband and I got married in June at the Deauville Inn and could not have been more pleased with the ENTIRE experience! The location, the food and the staff all far exceeded our expectations. I have to say that the weather also cooperated! Our wedding guests are still talking about the food! Judy and her team did an amazing job listening to what we wanted and making our dream day become a reality.

Our wedding at Deauville was absolutely perfect! We had a very small wedding (just 30 people) but they can accommodate anything! We had our wedding on the lawn area between the two outdoor bars by the beach area. Judy is their event coordinator and she went above and beyond my expectations. She was so quick to respond to any question/issue that came up during the planning process and she helped facilitate rentals and helped me to decide on design, menu, etc. Deauville built a beautiful driftwood arbor to get married under just in time for our wedding as well. Their food was phenomenal and their staff were all not only attentive but very personable. I cannot say enough good things about our experience. I would 100% host another event there one day. Everything was perfect :)

Judy and the entire staff were wonderful and the food was amazing!

Judy stepped in to help plan our wedding about 2 months before the big day! She did an amazing job of getting everything together and was a pleasure to work with! Our day went perfectly and we wouldn’t have wanted our wedding hosted anywhere else!

Let me just start by saying, WOW. The service provided by Niguel Martinez was amazing. The food was delicious of course, but the ambiance had people coming up to me and thanking me (I couldn’t take the credit). Thank you so much!

Amazing experience and I cannot thank Niguel Martinez enough for putting this together. I would highly recommend as our guests were thrilled with everything. Service was superb and the food was excellent. Thank you!

We had an amazing wedding day and were so happy that Deauville was part of it! We were married in the morning on the beach and enjoyed a lovely, casual beach day with our family and friends. All good days down the shore end with an epic happy hour, so to go out with a bang, we rented the Lawn at Deauville for our wedding after party! We worked with the Jitney to shuttle people from the hotel to the venue, the Jitney was able to drop off in the back of the venue allowing our guests easy and direct access to the lawn. The furniture included in the rental exceeded our expectations, the set up & flow was perfect. Drinks were delicious, the bar tenders were energetic, fun and a pleasure to be around. The food was Instagram worthy and people still rave about the amazing lobster rolls. We didn't expect our guests to be so hungry, Judy and her team kept a close eye on quantity and as we were running low worked with us to add more, so that our guests never felt the impact of running out of food. To top if off the sunset was incredible. We could not have asked for a better venue and event staff for our special day!

I had a beautiful late September wedding on the beach at the Deauville Inn. We reserved the lawn for the cocktail hour and a reception for about 75 adults and a bunch of kids. It was perfect. I received a tremendous amount of compliments on the food, which was excellent, and the lovely venue. As the bride, I had a wonderful time, I hope to be back for my anniversary every year.

The good part is that we loved our wedding here and our guests did too! The professionalism of the wait and banquet staff was remarkable and commented on by several of our guests. The venue is quite beautiful for a bayside wedding in the sand and the reception area was wonderful too, although on a hot sunny day like we had, the overhead tent clear top made it a little hot for our guests. Maybe a few white panels overhead would have cooled things down a bit. Overall the food was top notch.

We reserved our wedding at The Deauville Inn a year in advance, to be "grandfathered in" at June 2023 prices since they would be increasing for June 2024. One week before we needed to pay the balance off, we were given our final contract to review. Up until this time, the Catering & Special Events Director was very nice, accessible, and responded promptly to any of our concerns. We reviewed the updated contract and found that instead of being charged last year's prices of $100 pp, we were being charged a flat rate of $5000. Going by our original contract, we had 34 guests at $100 pp so a total of $3400 for that portion of the bill. Our guests' seating arrangements were changed as well without our input. We emailed our concerns and heard nothing back. We then showed up in person the day before our bill was due to speak to the event director, she came down to greet us and said she was in a meeting and would come down to talk to us when it was over. We said ok since we were in town and staying there for dinner anyway. She never came back down. This was on a Friday and our bill was due the next day. Once Saturday came and we didn't hear back, we thought our wedding might be cancelled. This was very stressful. Once Tuesday came, I called and texted her and she finally got back to us that there was no problem altering the guest seating arrangements to what we wanted, but the $5000 fee was "the best they could do" given the rising costs to them. We ended up rushing a bank check to them for the full amount since we did not want to argue so close to our wedding. Isn't the point of being "grandfathered in" that you pay the prices at the previous agreed amounts? As far as we are concerned, they overcharged us $1600 and broke our contract.

We had a friend do our floral arrangements, someone with decades of event design experience. She also experienced a total lack of communication with the event director which left her unimpressed.

We paid a $500 fee for security since we had a potential very serious issue with an uninvited guest showing up. On the day of our wedding the event director did not introduce us to the security team to show them a picture of who to be on the lookout for. After our wedding we contacted the event director about this, telling her we saw no security present and we would like to be refunded the $500. She got back to us and said that they had four security personnel stationed around the venue and that is "not possible that we didn't see them". We thought this was very rude and unprofessional. She immediately refunded the $500 fee and wished us well. We took this as she had no desire to interact with us again.

We never thought this would turn out as it did, since working with the event director for the many months leading up to our wedding, she was the model of professionalism and support. We know all the reviews are glowing for The Deauville Inn, but we just want future brides and grooms to be aware of what our experience was.