The Estate on Second

Beautiful beautiful venue for my friend's wedding. I'm one of the bridesmaids and I cant say anything less on how the venue housed our preparations, etc. highly recommend for value of price, location and overall aesthetic!

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.

The venue was good, the food was decent, and the bathrooms were clean. Overall we had a great time with our friends.

Cool spot but the sound system wasn't that great. Depending where you sit the view is obstructed by large pillars. They were charging $55 to park in the lot behind the venue. We got FREE parking in the structure across the street. All that mattered was who I was with... and we had a good time.

We had our wedding at The Estate on Second on 3/30/19 and it was everything we could have dreamed of! The space is so beautiful and romantic; it truly speaks for itself. There is exposed brick, gorgeous floors (including wood flooring upstairs), big white columns and sparkling chandeliers.The venue is owned by Jay's Catering, so you are required to use them as your caterer. Luckily, they are equally as amazing and it makes the whole process that much easier. They were able to do all the food and drinks as well as our cake. They have a lot of food options to choose from and host tastings every month or so.They provide you with a design consultant to help you chose your linens, table setting and flatware. They also offered to make us signs for our signature cocktails as well as a seating chart. We were also able to add on the hedges that we used in our ceremony which were re-purposed to use around the venue during our reception.Everyone we worked with through The Estate on Second as well as Jay's were all great help, professional and prompt. We would highly recommend them for you wedding or next event!

Just a fantastic venue.Arielle, Sarah, and Kenny were all a great help.They coordinated well with us and everything was quick and easy.Their service on the wedding day was superb as well. And their food was just great.Everything looked awesome and the initial set up was exactly as we have asked.Thank you, for helping us to have such a great wedding :D

As a photographer I can tell you that this place is amazing. Gorgeous! perfect for that brick sort of boho classic chic feel. It is someplace that I am considering for my own wedding. The staff was super professional and friendly. The vibe was wonderful. Plus shooting in downtown Santa Ana with its hip arts vibe is alot of fun!

Not sure I would recommend Estate on Second to anyone. As a bride, you are stressed out and have a lot going on. What you need is a venue that is organized and has great communication. This is not that place. Here are some things to note and consider, which I did not know what I booked the location:- There is not food tasting included before the event, nor pictures of the food you're ordering. There is an event they host where you can taste a few dishes that Jay's Catering makes, but I feel like this is how they skip out on giving people private food tastings. If you would like to try the food that is served, perhaps go somewhere else. Side note: the food at their event was good, but nothing I was interested in choosing... it was a lot of the upgraded options.--- I ended up choosing from the Asian menu. My guests reported they liked the food! I personally thought it was a bit salty. ---Also, this means you don't get a cake tasting either. And if you decide not to go with their cake, I believe it was $4/pp to go with another vendor (and for me, for 160 people, that would be $640 and I'd still have to buy another cake). --- the cake was tasty though! Got the chocolate with espresso filling ---- Children's meals are $40 and consist of macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets. This is for kids 7 and under. I was not impressed with the price, especially since kids barely eat anyway. (For reference, the adult meals came out to $49/pp)- When you choose a bar package, it encompasses every person at the event, including those underaged. There were no discounts for having children there who won't drink. Many of the guests said the alcoholic drinks were a bit weak.- Upgrades are expensive. Ask BEFORE you sign up how much it will be to upgrade the silverware or drinking glasses per person. - Bad communication experience with our planner. I asked her 3 times for an image of an event with black table cloths. Finally she sent me a picture after I asked her in person in front of her supervisor. I began having to highlight, number and bold my questions in an email so they wouldn't be looked over. - High chance you will not be able to do a rehearsal on the property.- The only times they allow you to do a walk through & meet with the coordinator are M-Th from 9-5pm. For someone who works M-F from 9-5, this was incredibly inconvenient and something I wish I had known ahead of time so I could plan it out.- Wedding was in the summertime, so it seems the staff was consistently out of town and I felt communication was very choppy during that time. I needed to meet with someone to choose table linens & dinnerware, and one day I got an email saying she was going out of town for 3 weeks and she could either meet with me tomorrow or the following 2 days, or not until a week before my wedding. I had to last minute ask my boss for time off for this. Very inconvenient. Positives:- Beautiful venue - AC- I really liked the cake- My guests had a great timeThe day of was lovely, I got great reviews from my guests, but the planning process was just stressful and therefore I don't know if I could recommend to anyone I know to have their wedding there.

Can't thank the entire staff of The Estate and Jay's Catering for being so great throughout my wedding planning. Hannah, Jeanne and Erin were amazing and made everything perfect for our special day. Day of wedding our guest raved about the h'orderves, dinner, bar service and overall customer service from all staff. Thank you to the entire staff for making our wedding day so special. The Estate is our hidden gem that we finally got to share with friends and family.

The best team! we worked with them for our engagement party and they were amazing!Thank you Estate on Second Team again for everything