Event Advantage

Planning a wedding can be stressful as it is and none the less doing so from across the country! I really wanted to give a better rating as I did for every other vendor on our big day, but need to be honest. With large gaps in communication leading up to the big day from the team at Event Advantage, to the DJ (not Louis & seemed incredibly flustered throughout the entire event) messing up several big announcements/names, dropped the ball on the ceremony music, fumbled through reception song choices (several family members including myself asked to kindly change songs and even gave a few suggestions), down to the cookies that I was assured by Louis were hand made by his daughter and would come in a mix of snickerdoodle, frosted, chocolate chip, etc., (for $300) when in fact we were told by the server behind the table that they were store bought. 2 stars is the best I could bring myself to give. A wedding is supposed to be that ONE time in your life where a business owner should do their very best to ensure they are paying the closest of attention to details (food, music etc.). Specially when you are completing an event planner form that listed out EVERY item, song, and name so all one had to do was print out and have the DJ read it at the specified times. I even went as far as sending photos of the venue to ensure they knew where things would go seeing how I was across the country. Unfortunately Event Advantage missed the mark and sadly cost my husband and I $3k for nothing more than delicious tacos. We unfortunately will not be recommending Event Advantage with Louis Chiero for any future events.

Lou was awesome from beginning to end, I highly recommend he and his crew for you next event!! Our wedding theme was elven and I told him if he had anyone from the staff who would love to dress up, boy did they deliver, it was one of the greatest experiences of our lives and Lou had a lot to do with it. Choose Event Advantage He even download specific medieval songs, I am still on cloud 9!

Events Advantage did the most amazing job with my wedding! They were so helpful before with the food and sound. We had a tasting with Lou, a few months before, and it was the most amazing food! Adding the photo booth to my reception also made for a fun thing for guests to do. I couldn't recommend this business enough!

Event Advatage helped to make my small backyard wedding a dream come true. The food was amazing, and DJ Bombero was really awesome! He had a few hiccups with equipment he wasn't used to, but the guests never new because his energy was so amazing! He helped to move our party along without it feeling rushed! He made me and the other guests laugh and feel like we've known him for years! The only thing not making it 5 stars was some communication issues as the date got closer. I would suggest maybe hiring an assistant to better facilitate answering emails/getting the fine details down. With that said, I still wouldn't hesitate to hire them for future events! Their staff the day of were polite, professional and very helpful! Thanks Lou and Chellie for making our dream wedding a reality!

Because we are getting married about an hour outside of Sacramento and in a small town, our catering needs were limited. We found EA that was local to the area we are getting married. $1500 total seemed like a great deal for catering plus a DJ. Little did we know then what we know now, you get what you pay for. From the start they have been terrible with communication. Each time I have reached out to them, my emails go un-responded and I generally get a text or email later asking ME TO CALL THEM after a certain time or certain day. I found that to be incredibly unprofessional, remember, You want my business, I don't need yours.Now that I am seeing so many reviews from brides whos weddings were destroyed, I am starting to notice the same things happening with my own wedding. Which made me look further into things. The food they make looks extremely dry and overcooked and the appetizers are slopped together. I do not want my guests eating that, nor do I want the general aesthetic of my wedding to be thrown off because my caterer does not understand how to present food.The reviews were bad, but we tend to give the benefit of the doubt to any small business, because mistakes happen. But what really hit the nail in the coffin was the utterly disrespectful, immature and unprofessional response to those reviews from the business owner. After that we emailed them and asked if they could provide something in writing that stated our food would not be overcooked and that we would be getting the DJ we thought we were hiring and not someone contracted. Once again my email goes without a response.I think they fail to remember that a wedding is the most important day of your life and you are spending thousands to make sure it is. So when the most important vendor in your wedding cannot respond professionally to an email and shows this amount of disrespect to clients, It leaves you no choice but to go elsewhere. We have cancelled our booking with them and have found a more experienced and professional caterer and DJ for our wedding. Did we pay more? Yes. But again, you get what you pay for. Hopefully this is a lesson learned to this business in professionalism.

This co. has it down!!!! Between the customer svc, the amazing staff, planning, food is fantastic and our dj was perfect!!! Everyone is raving abouy this event!!! Ty event advanyage!!!

BUYER BEWARE - If you are looking for a professional, caring and understanding catering and dj company to go with for the biggest day of your life - DO NOT go with this company.My husband and I hired them for our wedding. They had great prices and Lou offered to take off $100 if I booked their catering AND their DJ package. So we did. There was a bit of miscommunication to start with, I wasn't made fully aware of the process, so I was waiting for months to hear from them until I finally took the initiative to reach out to Lou - he apologized for the miscommunication and then gave me direction on next steps.About a month or so before the wedding, we found out that Lou wasn't going to be our DJ, and that he was going to assign one of his other DJ's. Lou vouched for him and said that we were in great hands, we have a seasoned DJ and that he trusts him to do a great job. We had inquired about the dancing on the clouds, and Lou mentioned that it would look nice for our first dance only but it's only good for about 1 dance. I also asked him since we had an outdoor wedding, if it would have the same effect - he said that the way it works and is designed that the fog should stay on the floor, mind you Lou said he had done weddings before at my venue, so he should know right? I was also very particular with the plates/chargers/utensils that I had wanted to use since I had a theme (like most weddings do...) and with the package we got - it actually came with plates, cups and utensils (plastic). I had talked to Lou, and had asked if we went out and purchased our own plates/chargers/napkins/cups/ and utensils - if he would be able to take a little off the price since they wouldn't be providing them. He said yes, so we went out and purchased cloth napkins, burlap chargers, plates (dinner & appetizer) and custom frosted cups for our guests. All of this came out to about $500 (give or take). Lou offered to take off $100. Which was fine, we knew we were going way over but it was worth it and the custom plastic frosted cups served as a party favor for our guests to take home.I had a very particular vibe that I wanted to set at our wedding, so I went out of my way to create a number of playlists on Spotify and added way more songs than needed to each playlist so that there was no reason why the DJ would run out of song selections. I had the following playlists : Guest Arrival, Processionals, Cocktail Hour, Dinner, Bride and Groom First Dance, and Reception Dancing. I laid out the order in grave detail for the DJ to follow and specifically asked for them not to veer of the playlists, not take any special requests, AND specifically NO explicit content as we were going to have a lot of kids there. Lou said it was unusual BUT that it was going to be a SUPER easy event for his DJ. I need to note that for our first dance, I gave Lou the mp3 file - the original song is very long so we edited the song and choreographed our waltz to the edited version.The biggest day of my life would soon be ruined, I am running out of characters for this review. To make it short, the DJ was late so wedding started late, mics weren't working, DJ played the wrong song for our First dance - played the original song so we had to do our dance twice once the song didn't transition to the edited version, DJ did some sort of robotic fade out on my father/daughter dance which was beyond embarrassing, DJ did not dress professionally, DJ was drinking on the job, DJ was no where to be found when we needed him (he was off chasing some of my female co-workers), DJ kept playing songs that weren't on my playlist AND were explicit, DJ kept "mixing" when I asked him not to, a TON of my guests got food poisoning the next day, and Lou's wife Shelly is super unprofessional and disrespectful. I'm attaching my last message to Lou about the matter, the conclusion - they've ghosted me and refuse to give any sort of compensation. Lou told me he fired the DJ, as he has a history of drinking on the job and chasing girls.I do not recommend this place to anyone - go someplace else.

Event Advantage was the perfect vendor choice for our DIY wedding at my grandparents' house. They have many package options and connections, making them an incredible, all-inclusive vendor. We used Event Advantage as our caterer and DJ and could not have been more impressed! For starters, the food was absolutely DELICIOUS! They helped us cater our menu to be the most cost-effective and custom to our wedding and guests. On top of this, we had the pleasure of having Loui as our DJ, and he absolutely popped off! His music selections were perfect, and he read the crowd really well. Communication was good and was especially productive when calling the company as opposed to messaging. Overall, we had an incredible experience with Event Advantage and Louis, and are so thankful for their help in making our wedding the best day ever!

My family booked this company for a wedding. The food was mediocre at best. There weren't enough hors d'ouevres for all of the guests. Special dietary considerations were communicated well in advance, but were ignored completely. Additionally, the company sent a TERRIBLE DJ who ignored all of the bride and groom's requests for appropriate music and thought nothing of playing profanity-laden hip hop with young children present. The icing on the cake was his attempt to learn how to scratch records on the spot, which resulted in poorly-timed interruptions to the music. This would have been forgivable had he not been regularly drinking and vaping on the job. I hope his dream of spinning for Def Jam Records works out one day because weddings are not his gig.

When my husband and I were searching for a caterer for our wedding, we were beyond excited to find Event Advantage. After our tasting with Lou, we knew they were the one. We also had a dj, bartender, and photobooth added to the package. We got married yesterday, and other than a few very minor hiccups, we were so happy that we went with them. I would absolutely recommend them to anybody. Thank you!