Wed rooms

Kevin Kraus & Scott Stachowiak, L Haus. Cost of renting space: $0 (with a returnable $1,000 deposit). Number of guests: 59. Apartments available in building: $915,000 to $1.63 million (Shambalissima/Patricia Silva)

When you’re coming up with the guest list for your wedding day, don’t forget to include a few key members of your condo board.

That is, if you’re planning on having your nuptials in the courtyard or on the roof deck.

While most people associate the words “home wedding” with something they’d throw in the backyard of their childhood house in New Jersey, this is also something that can be done in amenity spaces of a New York City condo building — and more people are starting to do it.

“When we lived in Chelsea, we actually wanted to get married on the High Line,” says Rebecca Stewart, who was planning her wedding with her longtime beau, Mark Hoornstra. “But it was a lot of choreography.”

Last fall, Hoornstra and Stewart moved from Chelsea to a 1,470-square-foot, two-bedroom, three-bathroom condo that they bought for $1.58 million at the new Griffin Court development on West 54th Street. And the building happened to have a spectacular 8,700-square-foot landscaped courtyard.

“Once we bought this place, we thought, ‘You could just show up and get married,’ ” Stewart says. “You don’t need flowers — you don’t need to do any decorating at all. It was just so beautiful; the setting told us this is the place.”

Earlier this month, Hoornstra and Stewart prayed for sunshine (which they got) and tied the knot in the courtyard, in full view of the neighbors.

“I told a couple of people in the hallway, ‘Oh, come by!’ ” Stewart says.

The newlyweds then proceeded to Hudson Terrace, a more traditional West Side party venue, for their reception.

But in some cases, there’s no need to leave your building for any post-vows after-party.

When Kevin Kraus and Scott Stachowiak were looking for places to get married, they went through a long list of possible venues around their Long Island City neighborhood before they chose the roof deck at their L Haus condo building.

They checked out Water’s Edge along the shoreline, but it felt a little suburban. The Foundry was a cool, industrial space, but it was booked the date they wanted it. (It also cost a fortune.) The Museum of the Moving Image was over their budget.

“But,” Stachowiak says, “there was no place like home that really spoke to us.”

Kraus and Stachowiak found a Long Island City-based caterer who laid out a full menu of Mediterranean salads, flank steak with a teriyaki glaze, grilled chicken with sun-dried tomatoes and, of course, wedding cake (carrot cake, with cream-cheese frosting). And they put up a rainbow-colored chuppah.

Perhaps the biggest plus of hosting a wedding in your building is that it can be a great cost-saver.

Typical event venues around the city can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars, and that’s even when you’re being flexible about your wedding date. Gotham Hall, for instance, starts at $250 per person, with a minimum of 200 guests, for a Saturday during the busy season, according to B. Allan Kurtz, the hall’s managing director. (If you don’t want to use its caterer, renting the hall is a minimum of $25,000.)

When Kraus and Stachowiak took the roof at L Haus, they were only asked for a deposit ($1,000 for the space), which was returned to them.

And, hey, if you can find an inexpensive caterer, maybe you could swap the money you would have spent on a splashy wedding on the down payment for a condo. (Griffin Court’s cheapest apartment currently on the market is listed for $720,000. A 10 percent down payment would be $72,000 — less than what it would cost to have 300 guests at Gotham Hall on a Saturday.)

Of course, the home wedding is not without its hurdles.

“Hotels and catering halls are always an easier wedding,” says Cathy McNamara, president of CMI Event Planning. “They have everything there — tables, chairs, a kitchen, which is a big deal. These are things you need.”

If you’re renting chairs for 70 or 80 people, your building might not allow movers to come in and out of the building on a Saturday (you might be stuck having to keep them until Monday).

If you’re fussy about your food, not every wedding at home can be cheaper than renting a restaurant. “It can be a little more,” warns McNamara. Plus, a lot of party rooms claim that they have a caterer’s kitchen, but this often doesn’t include a stove — meaning reheated food.

And while a big catering hall can easily accommodate hundreds of guests, a roof deck or courtyard might only hold a fraction of that.

In some cases, though, condo buildings — especially grand conversions — come with event spaces that regularly host huge weddings and other events. At Skylight One Hanson, located in Brooklyn’s old Williamsburgh Savings Bank, weddings happen at a rate of roughly two Saturdays per month, and could theoretically hold as many as 1,500 people.

“The biggest wedding we’ve done has been about 450,” says Jennifer Blumin, president of Skylight Group. “The biggest sit-down dinner was 600 to 650.”

With its 63-foot ceilings and its 10,000-square-foot ground floor, the space has also played host to a Kanye West performance and two VH1 “Save the Music” bashes.

So far, none of the nuptials in Skylight One Hanson have been for people who actually live in the building. “We have had residents inquire — and we’ve had one vow renewal,” says Blumin, but future One Hanson residents would be wise to consider it: It’s $15,000 for a general day rate and $12,500 for Brooklynites, and rates drop even lower for residents of the building looking to rent the space.

According to some brokers, party space is every bit as important as real estate in a building. Broker Victoria Shtainer, of Prudential Douglas Elliman has had clients who “will even forego a larger apartment in a ‘no party space’ building for a smaller apartment in a building with a large and gorgeous party space. I had a renter that took a building because he loved the party space.”

Erin Yitzhari and Abe Lichy had 450 guests at their wedding at Cipriani Wall Street (part of a complex that also includes condo units) this June, far more than they could ever accommodate at the Sheffield on West 57th Street, where Erin’s mom, Dorothy Somekh, lives and is on the condo board. (Somekh is also a broker for Halstead Property.)

But they decided to do the bridal shower and rehearsal dinner at the Sheffield, instead. “It felt more intimate” than a restaurant, Yitzhari Lichy says. The party room cost $800 to rent for six hours, and they invited 40 guests.

“The shower was the second event ever [in the party room],” Somekh says. “The first was a birthday party. But it was such a success that I immediately booked it for the rehearsal dinner.”

These parties have proven so popular with residents that the Sheffield now only allows one booked event per weekend. And, Somekh adds, there’s already been a wedding.