The Mainland at Holiday Inn is a premier wedding venue in Manahawkin, New Jersey. The Mainland Grand Ballroom and brand new Terrace can be personalized to create your wedding day vision. Our unique, one-of-a-kind reception rooms offer endless options for ceremony, cocktail hour, or reception, there isn’t anything this venue can’t accommodate. It also offers over a hundred luxury rooms for your overnight guests. Award winning cuisine, superb service, and exquisite decor, The Mainland is an ideal wedding venue for both small intimate weddings and grand affairs alike.
Facilities and Capacity
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin offers several options for your wedding ceremony and reception. The Mainland Ballroom is characterized by rustic chandeliers that bring warmth and a candlelight ambiance to your reception dinner. With flexible seating arrangements, with 10,000 square feet of space, there is room to accommodate up to 500 guests with plenty of dance floor space to spare. The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin recently introduced The Terrace, perfect for cocktail hour or reception with farm table seating in front of a majestic fireplace with stone walls, greens and string lights. The Terrace room can accommodate up to 150 guests dining and dancing with the ambient lighting of the fireplace. No matter what your personal style or wedding day vision may be, The Mainland can make it happen.
Services Offered
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin not only offers wedding venue space, but a variety of services and accommodations for your guests to enjoy. Your wedding reception will feature an open bar and a custom wedding menu provided by the Mainland Catering Staff. The dinner will be hosted by a professional maître d' who coordinates your reception from beginning to end, working closely with your hired professionals promising a flawless event.
Included in both event spaces are centerpieces, while formal linens complement our elegant Ballroom, the rustic farm tables set the ambiance in our Mainland Terrace. We also offer group room blocks with discounted rates for your overnight guests. As part of your wedding package, you and your fiancé will be invited to a complementary one night stay in The Mainland wedding suite, a bottle of champagne, and breakfast for two the following morning.
Accommodations and Amenities
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin has 110 rooms and 6 suites to accommodate your wedding guests. Each room has a mini fridge and guests can dine at The Mainland Kitchen + Pub and Beer Garden. Our 24 hour marketplace has it all from sundries, alcohol, snacks to souvenirs. The Mainland Indoor Pool and Exercise facility is perfect for your guests. Play golf on our nine-hole putting green or basketball on our new court! Recently introduced is our very own adventure park that consists of an aerial course of zip lines, climbing wall, arcade, and of course go karts. Guests can also take a bike ride, borrow a boogie board or beach chair for a day at the beach. Our guests come first and here at the Mainland we are your one stop shop.
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We sat down with the staff of The Mainland about a year and a half prior to our wedding date of 10/24/20, and immediately we were so comfortable and felt so rite to book our wedding with them. We were treated like family from the start. When we saw The Terrace we fell in love with the room and knew this was the perfect place to have our reception. The staff bent over backwards to help us and make sure we had the perfect wedding, and let me tell you we did. Kim our maître d was absolutely the best, before our date we met several times with her and Mel the event sales coordinator and at every meeting they made sure we were happy with everything we talked about down to the smallest detail. The night of our reception Kim was a rock star, she made sure we had everything we needed, drinks, food, and organized our bridal party to make sure everyone was were they were supposed to be. Mel was there also assisting with cocktail hour. I have to say without this team of excellent people our wedding would not have turned out as wonderful as it did, even during this pandemic they gave us a perfect wedding reception. Now for the food, cocktail hour was amazing, again Kim made sure that we got to try everything that was served, as anyone knows being the Bride and Groom you don`t always get to do that. The diner was fabulous, my friends and family are still talking about how wonderful all the food was. I highly recommend to add the mason jars to your desert menu, we had apple pie and they came out still warm, again everyone still bragging about them. Our first look at the room took our breath away we told Kim what we wanted and she took some of her own creativeness and totally made it even more beautiful. The Mainland is the place to have any event and if I find the need to have another event I will definitely be going there. To the Mainland staff Thank You for our perfect wedding, we could not asked for anything better, if anything you gave us more then we expected. We feel not only did we have a perfect wedding but feel we made new friends.
Sent on 12/21/2020
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin's reply:
The pleasure was ours! Thank you for trusting us with one of the most important days in your lives! We were honored and hope to see you both in the near future, here at the Mainland!
Amanda Czerwinski
· Getting married on 03/22/2022
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Our wedding at The Mainland -Terrace Room
We got married on Wednesday, December 23, 2020! This day was the most beautiful day of our entire lives. My husband and I highly recommend the mainland for your wedding!
I remember emailing the mainland inquiring about having the wedding there and at the same time emailing a few other places but Mel responded within literally 10 minutes... And it was at that moment that she and the mainland were number one on our list!
Mel, you are truly so wonderful! Thank you so much for making our wedding planning so easy and relaxing!! You answered every single question within no time! Thank you for being kind and dealing with all my emails and calls, it was in those moments of my stress that you made me feel extremely calm and for that I will be Forever grateful!!! You are so great!!!!
We had the pleasure of having Maria be our maître d’ at our wedding and let me just tell you something.....she was the BEST!!! Maria you made Ryan and I feel like a king and queen just as a bride and groom should feel on their wedding day! You never missed a beat for us even though we were being pulled in 1 million different directions!! You always made sure we knew what was going on and that we were having the best time and that we ate LOL! Thank you for being on our side for the most important day of our lives! You are truly one of a kind and wonderful woman!
I also want to add that the Holiday Inn was amazing! We got ready in the suite And spent our wedding night there as well! After our wedding we sat around the fire pit outside which was beautiful! The room was clean and the hotel is very very accommodating thank you for making our stay so wonderful!
We had a station reception at our wedding which was a lot of fun for our guest. Having a wedding during Covid was a little bit different than your typical type of wedding. We celebrated with our closest family and everyone truly loved the ambience of the room and the extremely fun and delicious food! From the deepest part of our hearts there is nothing we would change!
Thank you to Mel Jessica Maria and Andy and everyone else at the mainland and the Holiday Inn For making our dream wedding a reality!
Again I highly recommend the Mainland for your upcoming wedding!!!!
Sent on 12/28/2020
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin's reply:
The pleasure was ours! Thank you for trusting us with one of the most important days in your lives! We were honored to be able to be a apart of your special day. We hope to see you both in the near future, Congratulations!
Amanda Vranas
· Married on 12/04/2020
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Our experience was amazing and everything we hoped it would be.
We truly had an amazing day and everyone was so helpful which made us feel like all of our guests were taken care of so we could enjoy the day with them!
Sent on 12/06/2020
The Mainland at Holiday Inn Manahawkin's reply:
The pleasure was ours! Thank you for trusting us with one of the most important days in your lives! We were honored and hope to see you both in the near future, here at the Mainland!
