Wedding DJ at The Sunset Ballroom in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

The Space

The building sits at the exact point where the Manasquan River, the inlet, and the Atlantic Ocean come together, and the ballroom was designed around that view, with floor-to-ceiling windows running along two sides of the room. For decades this was Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty, a dockside seafood restaurant that started in the 1950s when the founder caught fish by day and served it at outdoor tables by the water. In 2026 the property was rebranded Harbor Point and now hosts weddings and special events exclusively, rather than splitting its calendar with restaurant diners the way it once did.

Harbor Point books one wedding a day, so the ceremony space, the ballroom, and the deck belong to a single couple for the whole day rather than being shared or turned over between two events. The waterfront ceremony area has retractable windows that open the room to the river on a mild evening, and a wrap-around deck runs along the water side of the building for cocktail hour, with the option to move the party between covered and open air as the weather calls for it.

Capacity & Layout

The ballroom holds 40 to 200 guests, with seated capacity running 125 to 200 and standing room up to 200, so the same room works for an intimate river-view dinner or a full reception without reading empty at the small end or crowded at the large one. Because Harbor Point runs one wedding per day, that capacity is never split with a second party down the hall, and the couple sets their own pace for ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception inside the same building.

Private bridal suites are set aside for both the bride’s and groom’s parties, so getting ready happens on site rather than at a hotel across town, and the wedding party can regroup between the ceremony and the reception without leaving the property. With the ballroom’s windows on two sides and the deck just outside, the floor plan keeps guests moving in a loop between water views, the bar, and the dance floor rather than funneling everyone through one hallway.

Amenities

Catering is handled in-house by an executive chef, with menus built into the package rather than sourced from an outside vendor, and service runs at a ratio of one waiter for every twenty guests, which keeps a seated dinner moving without long waits between courses. Full bar service is included as well, so there is no separate liquor license or outside bar company to coordinate before the reception.

The retractable windows in the ceremony space mean the vows can happen with the room open to the water on a calm evening or closed against wind off the inlet, without moving to a different room. Cocktail hour has its own bar setup both indoors and on the wrap-around deck, so guests can spread across both rather than bottlenecking one entrance while the ballroom is reset for dinner and the dance floor.

Location & Getting There

The Sunset Ballroom sits in Point Pleasant Beach at the point where the Manasquan River and inlet reach the Atlantic, a stretch of Jersey Shore waterfront that has drawn boat traffic and sunset watchers for decades. Guests driving in from inland New Jersey or Philadelphia are heading toward open water rather than a downtown block, and the approach itself sets up the view they will spend the evening looking at from the deck and the ballroom windows.

We have worked a reception in this room, and the layout is straightforward for sound: it is one open ballroom with windows on two sides rather than a chain of smaller rooms, so a single DJ setup covers the ceremony space, dinner, and dance floor without running cable between separate areas, and the glass keeps music from wandering off into a neighboring room the way more interior walls would.