Matt Rowland Events

I wanted to take a minute to thank Matt and his daughter and team publicly for their incredible job on my wedding.
Matt’s vision and creativity made for a magical evening with memories that will last a lifetime.
From lighting, to visual effects and décor, he totally nailed it. I asked for a lounge style setting with a Mardi Gras/​New Orleans influence on New Year’s Eve and I got it.
His crew was tireless and his creativity endless.
Thank you so much Matt!!! It was incredible and everyone had a fantastic time in no short part due to the amazing atmosphere you created! Thank you!!!

Matt is so great to work with. He did our wedding this year in September in Fort Bragg and things could not have gone better. He has an eye for setting things up and organizing everything/​everyone so that it is completely perfect. Trust his gut, its spot on. He helped us with ideas and he has absolutely anything and everything so he’s the perfect go to guy for all your wedding needs. He worked with our budget and was an all around great person. I strongly recommend him for any events but especially weddings. It is his calling and you won’t regret working with him. Don’t worry if he’s not getting back to you right away. He knows what he is doing and everything will be just as it should be if not more. Thank YOU, Matt!

I had the pleasure of working with Matt while I planned my Wedding in Forbragg.
It was excellent working with Matt. At first he was a little hard to get ahold of, but with it being wedding season I completely understood! Once we connected he really got the ball rolling and staid in contact with me all the way through! I was planning a «last minute» wedding and he seemed to have everything! I rented Crown Hall for my reception along with tables, linens, chairs (for both ceremony and reception), and an arch for the ceremony.
It was excellent working with Matt. He was timely, professional, and everything that was ordered was provided. I appreciated that he respected my budget and worked with me to get what I needed within my budget. He also made great suggestions along the way. You can tell he has a lot of experience and is confident in his knowlege and skill.
I would recommend anyone planning an event in Mendocino to contact Matt. He is just great!

Matt made our wedding exquisite!!!
He was so flexible, accommodating, and easy to work with. The rentals he has available are absolutely gorgeous. I felt totally at ease knowing Matt had everything under control, and it helped make our day totally stress free.
He and his crew were super easy to work with, and we had just about the most beautiful wedding imaginable. He really put a lot of thought into our layout and lighting design, and everything worked beautifully together.
If you’re getting married up in Mendocino, hire Matt! He’s the best. No question!

We worked with Matt, and his fantastic team, for our wedding at Spring Ranch in Little River, and they went above and beyond our expectations! Matt is an amazing visionary and it was great to get to work through the design process with him, and then see it come to fruition. He has a super cool collection of vintage furniture, plate settings, vases… it goes on. Guests could not stop talking about how beautiful his mismatched wooden chairs and wooden tables were at our ceremony and reception. He totally took control from start to finish, and every detail was not overlooked. We are so glad that we got to work with Matt, and his team, and highly recommend them to anyone who wants to make their wedding fabulous and memorable!

We loved working with Matt. His prices are the best in town and his eclectic rental collection was perfect for our rustic ocean wedding. Matt is a tent artist and really made the inside of the tent stunning with lighting, drapes, and paper lanterns. His wooden tables are beautiful and have plenty of space for a family style meal. He had napkins in a variety of colors and beautiful plate collections. He also has beautiful vases and duck baskets. Matt was even able to wrangle together a crew last minute on Saturday to rehang drapes and fix things that had come apart during a rainy windstorm the night before our wedding! thanks Matt!!!

Matt and his crew are great! They have everything you need at very reasonable prices and he will walk you through it all. Matt is a gem, he is a jack of all trades and took care of all our needs. One of the best things we did was hire vendors from Mendocino County, everyone was personable, professional, and reasonable.

If you had asked me to write a Unilocal review for Matt after our first encounter with him, he would not be getting a full red set of stars. During our first meeting, my fiancé and I confronted Matt about a few of his questionable Unilocal reviews, and because Matt was not aware of the reviews, it didn’t go over well. We walked away.
Fast forward a few weeks and we decided to give Matt a second chance. His prices were remarkably better than any other company on the coast (think 50% less) and we appreciated an email he had sent us in response to our first encounter.
Reengaging with Matt was the best decision we could have made.
A few things you need to understand when working with Matt:
1. He may not always respond immediately to emails and/​or remember everything you talked about. That’s ok. Take notes. Believe in him and trust that he will pull through.
2. You will learn more about event design than you ever imagined possible. My fiancé and I were on the phone with Matt for hours at a time on a few Sunday nights — for no extra charge. He would talk through his vision for the event in detail and would send us photos on the spot. The man LOVES what he does.
3. He may lose his temper (he never did with us after the first meeting) but he is an artist, not a businessman. You are hiring him to set up a beautiful event. You are not hiring him to smooth talk you. He’ll tell you like it is, and we appreciated his candor.
4. He has some mad skillz when it comes to lighting design, tent design, general event layout, etc. He set up a photo booth for us the night before our wedding that BLEW US AWAY. It was awesome (I added a photo of it). We didn’t know if it would happen (we had to remind him a couple times), but it did and we were super impressed.
5. Speaking of reminding him, be sure to write things down and take notes of what you discussed just to be sure you capture everything for the event. Run through the list with him and double check that he’s on the same page. He will do it but he gets busy, and you being organized will go a long way.
In the end, Matt’s product is second to none, and his prices cannot be beat. We would hire him again in a heartbeat. Also, if you have an opportunity to hire Prasada as your day-​of coordinator, you will be all set. She is remarkable and works closely with Matt quite frequently.

Matt helped us with our wedding a few weeks ago and he and his staff did an incredible job. We brought Matt general ideas and they helped us bring them to life in such a beautiful way. Our wedding was a blank slate (ie an outdoor open piece of land) so the equipment was crucial to making the place feel like a venue. Matt’s style and variety of equipment let us make the space our own. It was rustic and beachy and comfortable but clean and elegant. Oh and prices are very reasonable! I would highly recommend Matt and his crew if you are looking for a qualified and experience company in the area to rent event equipment from.

Matt recently did our wedding in Mendocino and we were very impressed. I am not a creative person, he is an artist; he gave us vision. He works tirelessly with his staff to make this joint vision possible. He has tons of interested cool things like handmade wood tables, hundreds of all different wood chairs and silverware, etc. If you are getting married in Mendocino, you absolutely need his help with rentals. I swear he is more important than the coordinator!

I have never been moved to write a Unilocal review before, but after Matt and his team’s extraordinary work on our wedding, I knew I had to share my experience. My (now) wife and I started planning our wedding up in beautiful Mendocino a little later then some others might — we were immensely fortunate to meet Matt a few months before our date. Immediately, it was clear that our sensibilities were a perfect match. Matt is an artist. My wife and I are also artists and had always dreamed of a wedding that matched our aesthetic principles — less traditional and full of surprises and spirit.
Matt is an avid antique collector, and his set of vintage chairs were perfect for setting the tone at Spring Ranch. They are an amazing complement to his beautiful hand-​built farm tables. My wife’s father is a woodworker himself, so having this homemade touch was just amazing. Also, the day of the wedding was kind of chilly. The evening before, we called Matt and he offered to leave baskets of beautiful blankets at the ceremony site. Everyone loved this touch and wore the shawls from afternoon late into the foggy night.
With Matt, we knew that we didn’t actually have to obsess ourselves over every single detail because his taste is so good and so similar to our own. We hadn’t even fully planned the seating for our ceremony, knowing that Matt would create a magical design. And indeed, he aligned the chairs in a beautiful arc with a diagonal aisle — something so striking and unusual that our guests kept talking about it.
My wife and I are the kind of people that deeply care about how things look and feel, but are also not obsessive and enjoy being surprised by the creativity of others. Being able to have this type of relationship –this deep trust — with Matt was beyond anything we could have imagined in working with someone on our wedding.
I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful it was to work with Matt. If you are someone who thinks of events as artistic experiences — you and Matt will completely see eye to eye. He loves creating beautiful, striking moments that are truly special.
And Matt is surrounded by exceptional people. In particular, Prasada, who he works with, was also our day-​of-​coordinator — she is the most wonderful person to create such a day with. And we actually met Matt through Karina, the most extraordinary caterer. Matt, Prasada and Karina really are the Mendocino Dream Team.

My husband and I were married a couple weeks back in Mendocino, and we used Matt Rowland Events for our rehearsal dinner rentals. One of the best things about this company is that the prices are incredibly reasonable for the rentals. He also has some very nice things– in particular I love the farmhouse tables that Matt makes and rents as well. They are lovely and the rental price is very reasonable compared to what you would get for comparable tables elsewhere.
However, I do think that it can be difficult to communicate well with Matt. He was always very nice and courteous to us, but I got the distinct feeling of disorganization. For example, we were set to arrive at our rental house where the rehearsal dinner was taking place on late Thursday night, and the rentals were scheduled to be delivered Friday morning. When we arrived, the rentals had already been delivered but were just left stacked outside getting wet in the misty air. Matt later explained that this was due to the availability of the truck on Friday– however, it would be good to discuss this with your customers in advance instead of just doing it without letting us know. They did come later after we told them about the wetness issue to put a tarp on the rentals until they could be set up the next morning.
Also, we asked Matt to come back to pick up the rentals on Saturday morning. He may have come at some point to pick some of the rentals up, but left most of them (including the large tables) until we asked him to come get them as we were checking out on Sunday. I’m not sure why he just didn’t come get them as we had agreed, and the only reason this was really an issue was because we had people staying in the house who had to work around these large rentals all weekend. Again, not a large problem but definitely something that should be communicated to the customer if you are not going to be able to pick up the rentals when agreed.
These are just examples of some of the communication issues we had. That being said, everything did work out well in the end and the rentals all looked great for our dinner.

I LOVE MATT!
Ok, now that I have gotten that out of the way, I can tell you all the reasons why I love Matt.
First of all, his selection and collection of rentable items is unbelievable. As a lover of all things vintage, he had so many options and made the «look» of my ceremony and reception complete unique. (Don’t worry, he has modern/​fancy things too!)
Second, his prices are totally reasonable. He offers discounts if you pay up front, and is totally flexible if you need to make any changes. For example, the day before my wedding the caterer said that my 48″ round tables were going to be too small for my family style dinner. Matt and his crew brought both the 48″ tables, as well as 60″ tables, set them up and let me decide what I wanted to do. He replaced my table linens in a jiffy and had what seemed like a huge problem solved in about an hour. Awesome!
Last, his crew had my venue cleaned by the time I arrived the morning following my wedding (about 11am). You couldn’t even tell we had been there (which is a good thing).
So, don’t believe what some of these b-​holes say about Matt on Unilocal.He is super friendly, cracks jokes all the time and is super flexible.
I would call him again in a heartbeat for any other event.

My wife and I own a bar in Mendocino and have worked with Matt and his crew on several occasions when we have had big events. Matt has always been incredibly helpful and easy to work with. He took care of all the small details that we hadn’t even thought of and easily helped us pull off several really successful events. He has a great team working with him and for our last event, they hustled for two days on extremely short notice in the pouring rain without a single complaint! I would happily recommend Matt and his team to anyone planning an event in the Mendocino area.

We got married in Mendocino on 9÷14÷13 and Matt decorated our ceremony location and reception. We got married on a bluff, the Ford House lawn and in September the grass is no longer green and the ground is a bit un-​even. Matt and his team transformed the area into a beautiful ceremony. He has so many fun options and creative ideas, it was easy for me to have an idea of what I wanted and then let him run with it. It was beautiful and everything I could have hoped for. Same goes for the reception, we had our reception at Crown Hall and in looking at the hall without decoration it was hard to visualize but Matt and his team TRANSFORMED the hall into the most beautiful reception! Our guests were floored when they walked in and multiple mentioned to us how amazing they thought it looked.
Matt worked wonderfully with the caterer and florist who he had worked with in the past. He also put any concerns I had to rest by proactively working with the DJ and photographers to familiarize them with the ceremony and reception location.
We lived 4 hours away from Mendocino and had to do most of the planning over the phone, Matt was easy to get a hold of, work with, and very fair priced. I could not have been happier with the way our wedding turned out and loved working with Matt. If getting married in the Mendocino area Matt Rowland Events is a must use for all of your decorating needs.

Matt has organized the venue for our annual fundraiser for several years. He designs the look and the very old hall always looks lovely and we have everything we need. Matt was a great help this year when pilot light on the ovens went out and we needed AV help during the event. Could not do it without Matt!

We had an all-​outdoor wedding in a sunny meadow surrounded by redwood forest, 20 miles east of Mendocino and 4 miles down a dirt road. Matt Rowland Events supplied us with everything we needed from tents and umbrellas to plates dishes and linens! Everything went off with out a hitch! Things showed up right on time and the crew that came was competent and kind! We are so happy with the event!

Without Mathew, I don’t think we could have gotten married.
OK, maybe a bit of an exaggeration. But I had my heart set on an non-​traditional venue (an off-​the-​grid farm) and knew that in order to go off perfectly, I needed to find someone I could trust to supply and manage rentals. We had very little infrastructure at the farm, so rentals were crucial.
I found Mathew in my research into vendors who had held events at Oz Farm before. After talking on the phone with him once, I knew he would enable us to pull off our wedding weekend.
Mathew was a pleasure to work with, taking the time to meet with us and speak with us multiple times. He literally sketched out the blueprint for the events, expertly using Google Maps to estimate the size of the barn and the lawn. And he was right on. He gave solid advice on the items we needed and the right number of each one. He also found ways to reduce our costs, which we appreciated.
He has a well-​stocked warehouse of rentals, supplying everything we wanted and needed for the weekend. He provided long, wooden tables for dinner, which, along with the mismatched vases/​china and Chiavari chairs, created the perfect setting for our wedding reception. A romantic, I really wanted a chandelier in the barn, which he didn’t have. Mathew went out and bought two beautiful chandeliers, which gave the perfect ambiance for our rustic chic barn dance.
When it came to the weekend, Matthew arrived with a moving truck and a half and a handful of gentleman in tow. They set up a miniature village to support our weekend full of events, which took place at five different areas on the farm. Since we agreed on much of the set up in advance of the weekend, they required little direction. He tapped my now-​husband and I sparingly for our feedback. As he realized there was an issue with our ceremony site, he gathered us and provided suggestions on a better angle — making us feel like we had come up with the decision ourselves. Just to make sure everything was perfect, he also came down to Oz Farm the day after setting up with a few items we hadn’t realized that we needed.
The farm setting was beyond gorgeous, but we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy it without the valuable infrastructure provided by Mathew, including the lighting, generator and sound. Not only was the lighting helpful, it also looked lovely.
Overall, Mathew was a pleasure to work with. He has a unique personality, strong point of view and artistic aesthetic — you have to like his style to have a successful event, and for us it is was a perfect fit. I am so glad we put complete trust into him. Thank you Mathew!

Our Sept. 2012 wedding turned out beyond out expectations. We enjoyed working with Matt and would hire him again. Check out some of the photos of Matt’s work.

Matt and his crew were amazing! He was super easy to work with, flexible about last minute changes, and really put our minds at ease when it came to all the details. We only met with him once before the event and he had all the details down to the last tea candle. My husband and I had a pretty good idea of what we wanted and Matt’s ultimate vision exceeded all our expectations! We had to pay a little extra for a lounge area and extra draping, but it was well worth it! Our friends and family could not stop talking about how gorgeous it was.