Report: 5 New Wedding Halls Coming to Lakewood

In his response to the Shidduch Forum column in this week’s Yated Ne’eman newspaper, Rabbi Chaim D. Birnhack, a local mechanech in Lakewood, NJ and a matrie d in a Lakewood wedding hall, mentions that Lakewood is now home to 8 wedding halls:

1) Ateres Chana at Bais Faiga

2) Cedar Palace

3) Lake Terrace

4) Fountain Ballroom

5) Kesser Moshe Yehuda

6) Ateres Reva

7) N’eemas Hachaim

8) Eagle Ridge

The comment was made in response to a question from a parent whose daughter is engaged. In trying to schedule the wedding, it was very difficult getting a hall and they were left with two options. Either they could have a very short engagement, of about 4 to 5 weeks, or they could have a very long engagement of over 4 months. They parents asked which is preferable, a very short engagement or a long one.

All of the aforementioned halls, said Rabbi Birnhack, usually aren’t booked 100% of the nights. “If you call them, you’ll see that, most likely, they’ll have a night available in your 3-month period,” he said.

Regarding wedding halls, Rabbi Birnhack informed the readers that “within 2 years, we will be’eizer Hashem have 5 new wedding halls here in Lakewood: 3 new halls on Oak Street, 1 hall on Lanes Mill Road, and 1 hall on Lewin Avenue off of Prospect Street. That would be a total of 13 chasunah halls. If we have 13 chasunos per night, that would be 65 per week, close to 300 per month, and over 2,500 per year!”

{Matzav.com}