Harborside Grand Ballroom 400 Main Street • Newport Beach • California 92661

Harborside Grand Ballroom in Newport Beach includes tables and chairs, white floor-length linens, basic napkin colors, plateware, silverware, serving dishes, Wi-Fi, audiovisual equipment and all setup and breakdown of Harborside equipment. Wedding packages add a five-hour hosted bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, dinner, a dance floor and cake cutting. Plan separately for the room rental, a $200 cleaning fee per room, the 22% service charge and sales tax, valet ($25 per car), upgrades like Chiavari chairs or chargers, and a professional day-of coordinator, which is required.

Yes, everything happens on the second floor of the historic Balboa Pavilion. Harborside Grand Ballroom hosts indoor ceremonies, with a $1,500 ceremony fee, and receptions in the Catalina or Lido room (100–150 guests each) or the full Grand Ballroom for up to 500. Floor-to-ceiling windows look out over Newport Harbor, and the Catalina room has an outside deck.

All food and bar service at Harborside Grand Ballroom comes from the venue, with one exception: two pre-approved cultural caterers are available through the Outside Catering Wedding Reception Package. You can bring an outside cake or desserts for a cake cutting fee, and your DJ, band, florist and photographer are welcome as long as each provides a $1 million liability certificate 60 days ahead. Live entertainment requires booking the full ballroom.

At Harborside Grand Ballroom in Newport Beach, wedding packages start at $100 per person and go up to $175 per person or more, depending on the tier. For a Saturday night in the full Grand Ballroom, the room rental is $2,500 with a $15,000 food and bar minimum; Friday and Sunday nights are $1,500 with a $10,000 minimum, and Monday–Thursday nights are $1,000 with a $7,000 minimum. A single Catalina or Lido room starts lower. Add a 22% service charge on everything, sales tax and a $200 cleaning fee per room.

Night events at Harborside Grand Ballroom run five hours, either 5pm–10pm or 6pm–11pm, and must end by 11pm. Day events run four hours, from 11am to 3pm. Entertainment wraps 10 minutes before your end time, the bar closes 15 minutes before, and extra time is $250 per room per quarter hour.

Harborside Grand Ballroom sits on the second floor of the Balboa Pavilion, a Newport Beach landmark, with floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides looking over Newport Harbor and its seven islands. The Victorian-era ballroom has a wide front staircase, two bars and a large dance floor, and it scales from a single room for 100 to the full ballroom for 500. Rehearsal dinners downstairs at Harborside Restaurant get 15% off food.

Yes. Harborside Grand Ballroom's Catalina and Lido rooms each hold 100 to 150 guests comfortably, with the same harbor views as the full ballroom. A Monday–Thursday day event (11am–3pm) in one room has a $250 room rental and a $2,500 food and bar minimum, which keeps a smaller celebration affordable.

To confirm your date at Harborside Grand Ballroom, you'll sign the contract and pay the non-refundable room rental, which is applied to your final bill. A non-refundable progress payment of 50% of the estimated balance is due 30 days before the event, and the final payment, with your guaranteed guest count, is due 10 days before. Holds aren't available, so have your date and budget ready when you book.