The Estate on Second Reviews
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4.8 out of 5 rating
4.8 out of 5 rating
8 reviews
96% recommend it
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Jamie P. Sent on 04/26/2023Timeless Venue
Exactly the elegance I was hoping for! Amazing venue and wonderfully responsive staff. The venue is like something out of a fairytale and works with so many different types of of decor. I played up the historical aesthetic and even had a jazz saxophone player. -
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Karlo C. Sent on 01/14/2020Incredible Venue!!!!!
What an incredible VENUE!!! Sierra was amazing and so was her team. They took care of us. They asked great questions and got details that they needed. The coordinated great with our wedding coordinator, Tanairy. Everything the day of the wedding was done the right way and I wasn’t worried about anything. The Estate on Second is an incredible venue and you don’t have to do much to it to make it look beautiful. The food at the venue was incredible and people couldn’t stop talking about how good it was. The venue is great since the cocktail hour takes place upstairs and then you come downstairs for dinner and the rest of the reception. It breaks up the day nicely. Thank you again to the team and Jay’s Catering! -
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Allison Sent on 02/03/2019Perfect for us!
The Estate on Second is a beautiful venue. It is clean. It is well organized. The layout is suitable if you have a few wheelchairs or older people. The staff were very professional and kind, and we enjoyed working with them! We were searching for a venue that looked like a big house, and this certainly fit the bill! If you are looking for an Airbnb venue, like we were, I would encourage you to look here because it has all the positives of a big house plus all the positives of a real venue. Would book again in a heartbeat! -
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Rachael Sent on 01/26/2016This is a hidden gem in Orange County. The work that was put into making this an event venue is amazing. From the reclaimed wood floors to the chandeliers this venue is picture perfect. We found the venue before it was done and watching the renovation process was amazing. If you are looking for a wedding venue that is breath taking The Estate on Second is it! -
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Bianca Sent on 12/02/2018Unique Hidden Gem
You would never think that this beautiful hidden gem as in the middle of the up-and-coming downtown Santa Ana area. This venue transports you to another time on the East coast with historical attributes like ironwork, chandeliers, exposed brick and large, atrium-like areas. The staff was always attentive and professional. The space was updated with event planning in mind which makes it 10 times easier for you and your coordinator. Be aware that this venue is more of an a la carte place not price per packaging. -
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Chris M. Sent on 04/11/2021Beautiful Venue, Lackluster Staff
No one wants to read a negative wedding venue review, and overall, our wedding day was wonderful. I understand that we were a difficult couple, especially due to all the restrictions with COVID guidelines. But I was hoping for a little more than we got, especially from the staff.
The venue itself is beautiful. I knew as soon as we walked in that my (then) fiancee would love the place and that we were done looking at venues. The high ceilings, chandeliers, brick and hardwood... the whole aesthetic was amazing. The catering staff (the catering company owns the venue, so if you want to get married at The Estate, you have to hire Jay's Catering) was really good, and they worked with us to individually package to-go meals for our guests since we couldn't in good conscience have all of our guests eating together.
Now for the difficulties. As I said before, our wedding was during COVID-19, so we dealt with a number of restrictions. We were also a difficult couple to deal with because we had to keep changing plans as the government placed greater restrictions and/or eased restrictions. We needed to be talking to the venue and catering coordinators quite a bit, as we increased and decreased guest counts and talked through all the different precautions that needed to be made. Toward the beginning of our working with them, both coordinators (Jeanne and Sierra) were very communicative and prompt, but as time wore on (and our wedding day grew closer) we were having more and more difficulty getting a hold of them. There was a point fairly early on where we realized that if I (the groom) called or emailed, I would get a terse, sometimes unhelpful response in a day or three. However, if my fiancee (the bride) called or emailed, she would get a prompt response that answered all of her questions thoroughly. As a groom who wanted to be involved in our wedding process, it was particularly irritating to be sidelined like this.
The sound system wasn't what I was expecting. I help out from time to time with audio at church, so I'm used to working with venue sound systems. The Estate's sound system was set up more like a home theater. There were a few inputs, but everything was running through a central receiver rather than through a sound board. Normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but since it was COVID season, we were livestreaming the ceremony. Their system was incapable of handling that complication, so we ended up paying the livestream company an additional fee to bring in their own sound equipment so that we could have sound for both the in person attendees as well as the livestream viewers.
There's a small parking lot in the back that is shared by some nearby vendors, and we were told that we'd have the whole lot (about 35 spaces) for our guests to use. When we arrived on the morning of our wedding, we were told that we were able to use about 8 spaces because the venue coordinator hadn't reserved the parking lot.
We were also supposed to have a curtain that divided the main room so that the bride wouldn't be seen too early. That curtain was nowhere to be seen. After a lot of running around and numerous phone calls, our wedding coordinator discovered that the curtain had been used at a different venue the previous day (the catering company owns multiple venues) and wasn't returned. Our coordinator was able to find a spare curtain that was much smaller, but got the job done, but the whole situation left us feeling rather disappointed.
So all in all, we were happy with the way things ended up looking, but there were several little things that added up to a large amount of unnecessary frustration. -
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