Highlawn Pavilion

The day we met with Paul and saw the Highlawn Pavilion venue, we knew we would have our wedding here! The ambiance cannot be compared to anything else! It's the perfect size for a wedding of about 150 people. Paul was amazing because he was always cool, calm and collective. He made every decision easy and with no fuss! Norma was a doll the night of the wedding! I think she can read minds because everything was taken care of for us so we could effortlessly enjoy our night!! Our guests raved about the delicious food which was another big reason we went with Highlawn! We can't wait to have our anniversary dinner there!!

NYC/Central NJ: One of THE places to consider!!! I have worked at some of the best wedding locations in the world and Highlawn Pavilion is a gem! My wedding and reception was a dream come true due largely to Highlawn Pavilion. Paul K. and his team are as saavy and experienced as they are kind and polite. The majority of my guests were from Manhattan/NYC area; and they were all impressed by the billion dollar view of Manhattan, Newark and Jersey City (it's the highest point in NJ), the fine cuisine, the garden and building classic Italian villa styling and the nice and accommodating staff!!! We had over 150 people and not one of them felt unattended or left without feeling like a VIP. Paul K. is a gentleman and his experience provided great assurance in planning the cocktail hour menu to the dinner menu to small details in wedding decor. His working relationships with area DJs, photographers/videographers helped me communicating with them on working together as a team. Thank you to the Highlawn Pavilion family!

We booked the Highlawn 2 months after we got engaged and had to wait 15 months for our great day. I saw the Highlawn when I was 20 and i remember looking at that elegant restaurant thinking wonderful events must happen there. It was kismet!!

Christopher Gellings was super helpful and very kind to us the whole way through. Quick with a phone call, all our questions were answered politely and professionally. We got the gift certificate to try the food and wow....their seafood is amazing!

The food is still raved about to this day. Two words: Duck rolls..amazing. The oysters, seafood, and all the meat were amazing and that was only the cocktail hour! We had a little bit of overcast on our wedding day, but it made for amazing pictures! You could see every building all night and at the last hour, our guests gazed out on the city. Upgrade to the Viennese table...even though no one will touch the cake when you have bananas foster!

We are so happy with the Highlawn, I promote it to all my friends. It was classy, elegant, fun, and so warm. If you want a run of a mill banquet hall, go somewhere else. :)

We had our wedding here on 7/1/12-- we are an older couple but still wanted a classy event with great food. This was it and more! Fabulous views for the New York skyline and a gorgeous venue. All of our guests raved. Everyone we dealt with went out of their way to accomodate our wishes --from Chris the banquet manager to Norma our personal assistant the day of the wedding. It is a "smaller venue" and nice that they only have 1 wedding @ a time.

My wife and I chose the Highlawn Pavilion for our wedding reception on June 9, 2012. While we had the ceremony in a traditional church, the Highlawn was an exceptional place for our cocktail hour and reception. Chris Gellings, our coordinator at the Highlawn, could not have made for an easier day. They let us drop off a significant amount of items a week ahead of time, and stored them safely for us. This provided great emotional relief to my bride, who was worried about storing all of our favors.

Our guests had the most amazing time, and still can't talking about our wedding. The food was absolutely out of this world. Our cocktail hour had enough food to feed an army, and the quality was excellent. Chris was very accomodating, and worked with us so that we could add all of the special touches we wanted while still remaining within our budget. Dinner was fantastic, and was the best food we ever had at a wedding.

They were very accomodating with our other vendors, allowing our DJ to set up early, and providing space for our rented photo booth.

They assigned us our own wait staff, who even brought food and drink outside to us while we were taking photos on the surrounding grounds. The general wait staff were great as well. Also, the bartenders kept everyone very happy and our guests commented that the drinks were particularly delicious.

They also made our wedding cake, which was beautiful and delicious. We were also allowed to take our extra cakes from the Venetian hour home with us.

We can't recommend the Highlawn enough, in terms of quality, convenience, and also price.

My husband and I just got married in this venue on June 2 of this year. We absolutely loved everything from the food to the outside grounds. The food was everything we were looking for, exremely tasty. The grounds and venue itself are extremely well kept up. The staff was wonderful and attentive to our every needs! I would recommend this venue to anyone! Our guests are talking about it still!

The service and quality are impeccable. They don't nickel and dime the small stuff, which is great. The food was fresh and hot and delicious, from the first plate to the last!

My husband and I celebrated our vow renewal and 50th Anniversary at the Highlawn
Pavillion. Since 50 years ago we eloped we made our 50th much like a wedding. We had a formal vow renewal fully set-up there.
The Highlawn Pavillion was wonderful. The manager Chris could not have been more accomadating and a pleasure to work with.
The day of our celebration the staff was wonderful and we're still getting compliments on how delicous the food was, every aspects of the food service etc,
was perfect.
We had a wonderful time and the the Highlawn Pavillion was perfect.
We had app. 113 guests.
Couldn't have been any happier.

We looked at an embarrassing amount of venues for our reception and none really clicked with us until we found the Highlawn. From our first meeting to the day of our wedding, they were extremely easy to work with. They even called me prior to my wedding because they were going to put up holiday decorations and didn't want to clash with my flower scheme. The food was delicious and plentiful and the service was fantastic. We also had beautiful weather so the views of Manhattan and Jersey City were breathtaking.

My wedding cake from highlawn turned out beautifully. They were super easy to work with and the cake was exactly what I pictured for my wedding day.

My daughter was married at Highlawn on 9/4/11 (Sunday). The Ceremony (outside) and Reception were absolutely beautiful. The cocktail hour had fabulous choices and the dinners were magnificent. We had family and friends from all over the country and everyone was so impressed with the attention to excellence and the service. The banquet staff could not have been more helpful and professional. Our family felt that we made the perfect choice and my daughter and her new husband are in heaven! A special thank you to Paul who helped make the day flawless :)

Our wedding was amazing. There was not one complain the entire day. The food and service were great. We had an amazing time!

The entire staff at Highlawn is great. Everyone was flexible and cared about giving us a good experience, from the maitre d' answering every request with a smile, to the banquet managers who were checking the weather satellites every second, actually encouraged us to have the ceremony outside, and allowed us to use confetti indoors if it came to that. We worked with Paul, who is skilled at his job and kept everything running smoothly. The food (what I had of it) was good and table service was good as well. We went a little over time and they didn't kick us out even though there was another event following afterwards (we had a daytime wedding). Highly recommended! Great service and good value.

Highlawn was a wonderful choice for our Saturday night, black tie wedding. We wanted a classic venue that would be sophisticated and elegant and Highlawn was a perfect match. The food was delicious and the view was incredible. Paul, our catering manager was highly responsive leading up to the wedding and our entire menu, from cocktail hour to dinner was custom. If you are looking for a unique, non-wedding factory with a classic feel, Highlawn is perfect.

The Highlawn Pavilion was perfect ceremony and reception venue for us. We had a Saturday day wedding, which gave us access to the entire restaurant. The ceremony was outside, along with cocktail hour on the patio, and our reception on the 2nd floor. They accomodated gluten free guests with a meal that suited their needs. The food was amazing and guests are still talking about it!

We worked with Chris and had a wonderful wedding. We were married on a Sunday outside at the Gazebo and then had a reception on the 2nd floor. The cake came out beautiful and we were given a $100 gift certificate to eat at the restaurant after we booked the date.

We loved the hall, it was beautiful. Paul, our event coordinator, did a great job with everything.

When we went to the High Lawn we had already decided we wanted to be married in the summer, they gave us an available date. We planned a wedding in 6 weeks and had soup to nuts at the most affordable price I could have ever imagined. The men that manage the High Lawn were very understanding of our time and our size concern. They helped us plan and enjoy a beautiful wedding. They were open to our ideas about rearranging some things within the room to help make our guests more comfortable. They only have 1 wedding at a time, and their outdoor garden was a perfect place for us to exchange our vows. I was very happy and felt we had a lovely party with 210guests yet it felt intimate. Its a place that has charm, and character, as well as history. The food was awesome, and my husband is a chef, so he wanted nothing other than the best. You can have dinner downstairs to experience the food for any occasion we have talked about going back every year for our anniversary dinner, because the food was well worth it.

The above number includes tax, gratuity and the fact that my wedding was on a Sunday night in October by the way.

WOW!!! we absolutely loved everything about Highlawn. there are tons of windows overlooking nyc and the view is breathtaking...everyone loved it. the food was excellent and we got a lot of positive compliments from our guests about it. even the cake was good and they give you a little individual plate for dessert with lots of yummy things. most people were too stuffed to eat most of dessert!! cannot say enough good things, the maitre'd was very attentive but not overly pushy or bothersome through the night. if you have specific questions, please message me. we loved this place so much i wanna tell everyone!! :)

I highly recommend the Highlawn Pavilion to everybody! They did a wonderful job and the food was excellent, my friends and family are still raving about it. The cake was beautiful and it was delicious. You will not be disappointed.

Highlawn Pavilion did a great job on our wedding. We had the whole place to ourselves, and it was absolutely beautiful. The location is stunning and the guests were very impressed by the quality. The food was great, and we had rave reviews about the cocktail hour. The even designed our wedding cake to our specs, which was nice. My recommendation to a future bride, is to see if you can pick a weekday holiday and reserve the whole place for your wedding for a great price. We chose Memorial Day Monday. We had our ceremony outside, our cocktail hour running both inside and outside on the first floor, the whine cellar for changing and photography, and the main upstairs hall for the actual reception. The great thing about HP is that it is so beautiful, you don't need to go anywhere else for pictures. Everything about it is just superb!
As another helpful tip, HP let us have food delivered from a local cafe for our vendors. This saved us from paying for them to eat the expensive dinner food - and kept the vendors happy!

The Highlawn was wonderful!!! And I say this after they double booked our wedding date. They made it work and we ended up having our reception downstairs...they closed the restaurant for the night to accomodate us. It was not our first choice but in the end it worked out better than if we had the upstairs as anticipated!!! The food is spectacular. It isn't the mass produced fare that you would have at other venues. Everything was made to order, wonderful. The view sold us from day one. The wedding cake and food was amazing!

The Highlawn Pavilion did an incredible job delivering on all they promised. The food was excellent and my guests are still raving about it. In addition, they really worked with us to put together a menu and add special touches we requested all within our budget. They were very flexible in terms of customizing special requests. I would highly recommend them for any wedding or special event!

The food at the cocktail hour and the reception was outstanding. Their Maitre d' is the nicest person, very attentive to your needs. When we booked our wedding we got a very nice discount even though the place is really worth the money they are asking initially. I WILL definitely come back for another event if need be. Ohhhh, and let's not forget the cake - I would have eaten the whole thing if I could :).

The Highlawn provided an amazing experience. The staff was accommadating and courteous. The view is absolutly amazing. I would recommend this venue if your weddding party is around 150. We ended up with 170 and it was slightly cramped. The food is wonderful as well (which is hard to find at weddings). The cocktail hour had somethign for everyone! Overall, the highlawn made my wedding day so special - I would not have changed a thing!

Fantastic wedding reception. A bit set in their ways and not flexible with some of my suggestions. overall, a perfect night, however.

Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful. Made me feel like a princess. Only one problem; couldn't choose linens, they only had one color. Otherwise food and service was amazing. My friends and famaily still talk about how wonderful the wedding was to this day. Highly, Highly, highly recommend

For a small wedding of less than 200 the "Highlawn Pavilion" has no equal!!! First class service, cocktail hour is amazing, 5 star menu, cuisine is exemplary, as is NYC view! LOCATION is superb!!! The staff is flexible and creative, works with you to create the wedding of your dreams!!

A Beautiful experience, everything went smoothly the Food was exceptional. I would recommend it to anyone that wants an incredible view of New York without paying New York prices.