Quintana Events

Alex was recommended to us by our venue, Cornerstone Sonoma for our March wedding. After shopping around for day-​of coordinators, it became immediately clear to us that Alex was the best choice. From the get-​go, Alex was organized, he communicated clearly and often, and most importantly, he made us feel at peace. Throughout the planning process, he kept us on schedule with booking our vendors and making our decisions and provided helpful guidance beyond what we were expecting from a day-​of coordinator.
As our wedding day grew near, it became clear that we were going to have a very rainy wedding. So much so that the day before our wedding, our caterers had to upgrade their tent rentals to be able to accommodate the additional rain. This was a large, last-​minute, cost and Alex went the extra mile and chipped in to help cover the unexpected expense.
During the actual wedding, throughout the downpour, Alex and his staff did a phenomenal job making us feel at ease and ensuring our day went as smoothly as possible. We couldn’t be happier with the outcome of our wedding, and a huge part of that we owe to Alex and his team at Quintana Event.
Alex, you’re an absolute treasure. We can’t thank you enough for guiding us through our big day.

We could not be more thrilled with our experience working with Quintana Events. Although we scheduled interview calls with numerous wedding planners in the Northern California area, we immediately hit it off with Alex. We were planning our wedding from 500 miles away, so we needed to have someone that we could trust and rely upon. We are so glad that we found Alex and Quintana Events. As we worked through the planning process, Alex provided us with recommendations and provided valuable input on items we should take into consideration. Although we used him for our «day of planning,» the reality is that he was there with us throughout the process. He promptly responded to questions we had and helped us navigate through the never-​ending maze of wedding details.
On the days leading up the event, Alex kept in close communication with our vendors regarding the wedding and worked to ensure that things went off perfectly. It was unclear if our wedding day would have rain or shine, but Alex worked with us to develop a Plan A and Plan B, so that our outdoor wedding experience would be perfect. Unfortunately, on the day of the event, Plan A, B, and C went out the door due to unexpected heavy weather, but Alex and his team did everything in their ability to ensure the day went as smoothly as possible and was true to our vision. The Quintana Events Team actively worked to ensure that the guests’ experience and the quality of the wedding were not affected by the weather. Alex acted as our advocate, working with the venue and other vendors on the day of the wedding, and we did not have to worry about a thing on the day of the wedding. Quintana Events paid attention to every single detail and maintained strong communication with our vendors so that everyone was on the same page. Alex and the Quintana Events Team wanted our wedding to be as amazing as we were hoping it would be and he and the Team worked tirelessly through the day and night to ensure that every item was attended to.
The wedding planning business is all about the relationships, and it was clear to us that Alex has strong business relationships in the community. This, in turn, made our planning process much easier and more collaborative. His team members were extremely professional, kind and helpful. Alex paid attention to our vision, was mindful of our preferences, and was kind, attentive and organized. We would highly recommend Quintana Events to any client and we will miss working with Alex.
If you need an event planner — use Quintana Events — they were worth their weight in gold and worth every penny.

It has been a little over a month since our wedding and we still feel so much joy from our beautiful, perfectly executed wedding thanks to Alex and his team! We got married in Sonoma where we had our ceremony at a catholic church and our reception at a winery. We really appreciated Alex and his team being there at both sites helping make sure things flowed smoothly. We also got to work with amazing vendors whom Alex recommended and gave us great customer service. However, the most important thing to me was how Alex was there to listen to our concerns and worked with us to follow through on our vision. I highly recommend Quintana events and their whole staff, they will make your special day as the day you will never forget, in a good way =).

We came across Alex’s name through a referral at one of the wineries while we were looking for a venue. After connecting with him and going over his reviews, my husband and I decided to hire him. I was more confident that we had made the right choice in hiring Alex when EVERY vendor I contacted to get quotes (catering companies, florist, etc) always had nothing but great things to say about him.
Alex was there throughout the entire process — answering questions, giving us advice on vendors, helping us stay within our budget, and so much more. He was such a pleasure to work with; he is cool, calm and collected, extremely organized and super responsive. A bride’s dream come true!
Hiring Alex was the best decision that we made for our wedding. The wedding day was absolutely perfect and was flawless. I can’t thank Alex and his team enough for making my wedding at Stryker Winery so beautiful… truly a day that my husband and I will hold dear in our hearts. Alex, you are truly phenomenal and I highly recommend Quintana Events. Stop searching, you have found the best coordinator out there!

Alex and his team are incredible! We picked Alex out of the other wedding planners we talked to, because we thought his personality would be the best fit. We have big families with big personalities and we wanted someone who would be empathetic, patient, and a good mediator for all the parties involved. It was the best decision! Not only did the day go off without a hitch, but the planning process was also fun and stress-​free — not something all brides can say :) I’d highly HIGHLY recommend him!

Alex is the best. ever. I got married in Oct 2015 and he really went above and beyond to make sure my wedding planning was seamless and flawless (for over a year). On the big day, he made me feel very calm and confident that everything was in place. Plus, he is so much fun. If you are looking for a wedding planner, hands-​on or just day-​of, look no further… Alex is your man.
xo–
Courtney Jenkins (Miles — New last name) ;)

Alex and his team were absolutely fantastic! We had him coordinate our wedding a year in advanced and he helped us out every step of the way. He also regularly checked on the venders and definitely went above and beyond in terms of effort. On the actual day him and his team had everything under control and planned down to the minute. He was so relaxed and calm during the whole event that we were totally stress free. I absolutely recommend him!

The Quintana events team is phenomenal. I was so happy to have such a model group of professionals working in perfect synchrony on my Lake Tahoe wedding. They had every single detail planned and executed to perfection and my wedding day went off without a hitch thanks to the experience, professionalism and team work of the QE team. Highly recommended!

Alex was a pleasure to work with from the very start. He is calm and collected, very responsive, and well-​organized. All we had to do at our wedding was show up. After many months of focusing on the details, it was a relief to just hand everything off to Alex and his team and know that they would take it from there. And Alex thinks of everything. He put out out a charming little box for cards – something that had never occurred to me to plan for. Everything was perfect, without us having to be involved in any of it. Just incredible. I now understand why he came so highly recommended to me when I was interviewing coordinators.
There are many things that about weddings that are not worth the money you have to spend. But not Alex and his team. They are worth every penny. Thanks to their fine work, I was able to completely enjoy my wedding and reception without a single care beyond coming up with my next dance move.

We hired Alex for our wedding in Sonoma and Tiffany was our lead coordinator for the actual event. Pre-​wedding they were always in close communication and incredibly easy to get a hold of. Weeks later, I am still hearing compliments from our family and friends that the wedding went so smoothly. Their attention to detail and professionalism throughout were above and beyond what I could have expected. It baffles me that they do this on a regular basis and yet still made the experience for us, the clients, feel so personal. Highly recommended!

It’s a shame there are only five stars to give. Alex and Sonya were nothing short of amazing. My husband and I got married last week, and we’ve been working with Alex since our engagement in December. From our first meeting, he showed his talent and creativity — particularly when we asked him to create an indoor ceremony in a space that is not traditionally used for such. The result was nothing short of perfect. It was intimate, beautiful and took my breath away when I walked down the lantern-​lit aisle.
Not only was he a pleasure to work with — and fielded a LOT of random questions from me («Yes, the linens will be ironed!» he promised) — he was a maestro behind the scenes. We only saw him when he needed (or wanted) to be seen; otherwise, he was making sure everything was in place and perfect without anyone else knowing.
We also quite appreciated his relationships with our other vendors. It was a rare instance when he hadn’t worked with someone before. Everyone was thrilled to work with him and his team again.
We know that Alex and team work on much larger and more complicated events and weddings, but we never felt like ours was too small or insignificant for his time or talent. He treated us like we were his only priority, even though we know he has a full slate of events!
We will recommend him and his team to any and all who are looking for the best!
Alex and Sonya, again, thank you! You’re awesome!

We hired Alex as our «Day of» Coordinator, and he was phenomenal! In the months leading up to the wedding, he provided us with a timeline so that we could stay on track with wedding planning, fielded our MANY questions, reviewed our budget, offered advice, and settled our nerves when we started to get anxious about certain details. A few weeks before the wedding, Alex arranged a meeting with our venue’s on-​site event manager, so that we could run through all of the details and discuss final to-​do items. In the days leading up to our wedding, Alex confirmed the timeline with all of our vendors and checked in with us regularly to see whether we needed anything. And on the day of the wedding, everything ran so smoothly; we were fully able to enjoy our special day, because he and his assistant took care of everything.

Musical Heart Strings performed for a wedding at Jacuzzi Vineyards on Saturday August 2, 2014. When we arrived we were greeted by Brie from Quintana events. She had a huge smile on her face and asked if she could help with anything. Wow! blow us over! Often coordinators are too busy to help the musicians. However, I could tell Brie was excellent at multi-​tasking. As she was calmly going over the ceremony details with us, she was scanning the venue to make sure everythig was going smoothly. She was great at keeping eveything on track. The wedding was beautiful and everything went as planned thanks to Brie and her partner Rachel.
Prior to the big day, we also had a some phone conversations with Alex who was also very professional and helpful. He made sure we had what we needed when we arrived at the venue and answered any questions we had in a timely fashion. We were unable to meet Alex the day of the wedding due to a family emergency. However, he was very available to us via phone conversations going into detail about where we would set up for the wedding and cocktail reception.
Musical Heart Strings now performs for over 60 weddings a year and we only recommend a handful or coordintors. Quintana Events is one of them.

At first I didn’t have any interest in hiring a coordinator. I liked doing it all myself and what could possibly go wrong?! However, my venue required me to do and I stumbled upon Alex. Best stumble ever! He was on top of everything the whole time, checking in and asking questions leading up to the day to make sure nothing was forgotten. On the day of he and Tiffany were at my wedding. Everything ran picture perfect smooth. They were on it all day. By the end of the night Alex felt like an old friend. I felt completely confident the entire day that anything unexpected would be handled by Alex– and I’m sure that happened but I never had any idea, just the way I wanted it. Hire Alex. You won’t regret it.

Alex and his crew are absolutely amazing at their work. He was our day of wedding coordinator for our May wedding this year and he was worth every penny! I’m not a party planner nor have I ever planned a wedding and Alex knew this and made frequent calls with me throughout the year leading up to our wedding. He saw our vision, listened to our ideas, and was able to help outline how we wanted the night to be. With a lot of day of wedding coordinators, they won’t even start talking to you until 30 days before your wedding date. I am so grateful that Alex would call me throughout the year, check in and make sure I had found vendors for certain things, and would tell me what I needed to accomplish in the upcoming months. Also when I would get crazy on my bridezilla rants, he would listen and then smoothly recommend how to deal with the situation. I am forever grateful for him! Our wedding day was amazing and went so smoothly. It wouldn’t have been possible without him!

Alex is incredibly personal & made me feel like a priority. He always took time to speak with me on the phone and was adamant about getting details right so my event was perfect

Alex was our coordinator in October and he really did a great job. When we first met him he told us that he’s been described as a «wedding ninja» which was not only funny but a seriously truthful descriptor! He kept us on track with our timeline for wedding planning without being pushy or annoying at all and he was there when we needed help with a vendor or just to ask for advice. Probably most impressive was during the day of the wedding– Alex was present and super helpful without being obtrusive or over-​present (it’s important to pick a good coordinator because I’ve seen pushy and controlling from other coordinators in other people’s weddings in the past and it is not a good situation). Every detail that we asked for was taken care of perfectly and I was amazed that even little things (putting toasting glasses that a friend had given me at our place settings, getting all of the keepsake stuff back together to us after the wedding, prepping the s’mores pit at the wedding) were magically perfect. Only one piece of advice for those couples planning a wedding– if you want it, make sure you ask to have the top of your cake saved for you (it is traditionally frozen and eaten on your one year wedding anniversary). We didn’t ask for it and so didn’t get ours saved. It ended up being ok because we figured our
guests got to enjoy it and how good does frozen one year old cake taste anyway?
Bottom line: If you are planning a wedding pick Alex and his team as your coordinators– they will not disappoint!

Alex of Quintana events was the wedding planner for us when my wife and I were married at Jacuzzi vineyards in Sonoma, CA. Me and my wife both live in Boston, MA and Alex created a package for his services as day of wedding coordinator that me and my wife were very excited about. We both would be flying in from Boston only 3 days prior to the wedding and most of our guests the day prior to the wedding.
He was organized with time tables, schedules, list of preferred vendors in his experience that we would get the most for our money. We carried this all over the phone until the day before the wedding and on the day of the wedding there were no hiccups on his end and he made the day very memorable for me and my wife. He took care of small little items for us that we would have not remembered for ourselves. He was able to relate to any questiosn my wife had for her side of concerns during the wedding and was able to talk to me in regards for any concerns or preferences. He ensured that we did not overspend in any aspect and pointed us to very high return vendors.
I can not highly recommend Alex enough, he ensured through his experience and preparedness that our day had no hurdles and all facets worked seamlessly together.
We felt that Alex was well worth the money and that at no time did we feel rushed talking to him. He always made time for us and or questions, small or large.

I have been waiting to make my very first Unilocal review on one amazing business and Quintana Events is it!
I hired Alex to be my Wedding Coordinator because my venue required us to have a day of coordinator. I wasn’t too pleased that I was going to have to spend $$ on one more thing since as we all know weddings are expensive. I can honestly say (and I don’t say anything I don’t mean esp being a NY chick) the best decision that I made for my wedding was hiring Alex.
I only hired him as a day of Wedding Coordinator but he was there the whole way when I was planning the wedding. I live out in NorCal with no friends or family and Alex was always available by phone or e-​mail for consultation on decisions on vendors or just a second opinion.
I decided I wanted rental furniture and lighting and making the decisions on those items were overwhelming due to the cost and having to rely on my own imagination. Alex attended the meetings with me and helped me to design a lounge atmosphere that I could not be decisive on.
A few weeks before the wedding, I had a major freak out about the photographers and wanted to fire them (long story). I e-​mailed Alex and he called me immediately to talk through my concerns about the photographers. It wasn’t until the end of the conversation he mentioned to me he had pulled over on the way back from SoCal. In that conversation he was able to talk me down and come up with a plan of action that would ease my fears.
On the day of the wedding, Alex was there to talk to me in just the right way when there were situations that were less than perfect. He did have the pleasure of breaking the news to me that some of the furniture that showed up to the venue was not what I wanted. Normally, I know and my now husband that was standing next to me knew, I would have kind of freaked out.
Alex had just the right way speaking to a (mostly very uptight) Bride that is extremely calming especially when presented with errors of the day. I am very strict when it comes to time and it was sooo important to me that we stay on schedule. The bus with all my guests weren’t at the venue 15 minutes after the wedding was supposed to start. My mom and bridesmaids saw me stressing and tried to calm me which I think was making me more annoyed. Alex came in and said something totally calming and I was fine.
The day commenced eventually and Alex was my go to person. He was very behind the scenes (think totally not David Tutera). I like to joke he was like a Ninja. I have to say my parents, especially my dad didn’t understand the need of a Wedding Coordinator but thought Alex was extremely professional and was so happy he was there for the entire day. Most of my guests told me that it was the best wedding that they ever went to and then followed it by saying «I’m not just telling you because it was your wedding.» I owe a lot of that credit to Alex. He executed the day almost flawlessly and when there were bumps he managed the Bride (me) VERY well. I recommend a Wedding Coordinator to every Bride now after Alex but I only hope that all Coordinators are as professional, organized, involved and soothing as Alex.

Quintana Events planned my graduation party in December, and it was amazing! The personalized touches really made a difference, and it was great not dealing with all the nitty gritty details involved in planning events!
The coordination of the colors and theme made me realize how lucky I was to deal with a company that had such impecable taste.
I’m hoping that I will have some big events this next year so that I can come back and have them take the weight off my shoulders :)