gidget's reviews

We ordered our save-the-dates and invitations through Minted. They had creative designs and good prices. Easy to make small personalizations and they were fast on shipping. We were throughly pleased with the outcome.

Yum Yum Yum! Great cake at the best price in Ventura County! Very easy to work with and created a beautiful cake.

We loooooveeddd working with Bonnie! She is super knowledgeable and creates gorgeous arrangements! She got me beautiful, white peonies in the middle of December! Seriously - what florist can do that!?!? Bonnie can! :-) Bonnie was flexible working within our budget and completely professional. I had a great time exchanging emails with her to come up with the perfect floral scheme. What we talked about and envisioned was exactly what we had the day-of. We had endless compliments about the beautiful flowers! :-)

My fiance and I choose Command Performance because of their endless choices, customization, high quality, flexibility and best bang for your buck! We talked to over twenty caterers in the Ventura County, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles area and they seriously blew everyone out of the water. We had our wedding at the Camarillo Ranch House and knew right away we wanted a local, homey BBQ feel/food, but with an elegant touch. Annette, our coordinator from Command Performance (who was an absolute dream to work with - I'll talk about her later) did an amazing job of taking all of our ideas and creating our perfect wedding. We have gotten so many compliments about the food - saying it was the BEST food they have ever had a wedding.

We also did all of our rentals through Command Performance which made everything so easy. The day of our wedding was a complete downpour - so everything (Ceremony, Cocktail hour, and Reception) was moved indoors into the barn. I wasn't worried for a second, because I had complete faith in CP. They took care of everything and made the whole barn totally gorgeous! The transition from ceremony - to cocktail hour - to dinner was seamless. The caterers and bartender was superb. Rain even leaked a little from the celling and I saw Annette on her hands and knees cleaning up the water.

I cannot say enough positive things about Command Performance and Annette- she made our wedding stress free and absolutely perfect! Annette is truly a wedding visionary. She did a great job of listening to our suggestions and throwing in her own two cents of what she has seen work in the past - which I loved! I also loved that she could work within our budget. She was the only caterer who gave us an initial quote within the budget I gave her on her first conversation.

We had our wedding here in December and it was absolutely lovely. It was POURING rain the whole day, so we moved the ceremony into the barn. We had the reception in the barn too. Everything was so cozy and intimate. We LOVED it! The Camarillo Ranch House and foundation were easy to work with. They have no preferred vendors; so we loved being able to completely customize our wedding. When you pay for the Camarillo Ranch House you are simply paying for the site. We rented tables and chairs through the Ranch House - which is an added cost. In the barn they have a projector, two plasma TVs and a surround sound system available - for an added cost. We used the plasmas for a slideshow we had made and it was a big hit.

The only negative is some of the docents were giving the wedding party a hard time when we were getting ready for the wedding - they were rude and pushy. You also have to have one security guard per 50 guests if you will be serving alcohol and you need to take out a $1million event liability policy - more added costs.

We used Brian for our engagement photos and will use him for our wedding too. Brian is a professor of photography at Cal Lutheran University and was recommended to us from a friend who used him for her wedding. He was wonderful to work with. What we thought would be awkward (my fiance and I are not used to being in front of the camera), turned out to be really fun and relaxing. Not to mention the pictures turned out wonderful! He had a very fast turn around time (about 1 week). He has a wonderful eye of what will be a good picture or not. I also loved that he doesn't rely of photo shop and other photo programs to make a good photo. Anyway, highly recommend. I will give a follow-up review after the wedding.