Signature Events by Christina Romero

In May of 2015, Christina and her amazing team helped make our wedding day the best day ever! When we initially brought on Christina and her team, there were initial hesitations about hiring a wedding planner, especially from my father, but as the process got underway, he continuously stated that it was «money well spent». Christina and her team are extremely professional and listen to all your wants and needs to ensure that your day screams YOU.
The whole planning process was smooth as can be, Christina had everything perfectly mapped out and in my calendar (amazing) so that I would get little reminders as to when things needed to be taken care of. If ever there was a question, she was very quick to respond.
Christina had a big undertaking with this wedding, being that we had over 400 guests. Not to mention parents that were very involved in the entire process, and she handled it all with grace and professionalism. She was able to keep the bride and mother of the bride calm at all times, and not once were we bothered on the wedding day– so thankful for that!
Overall, if you are considering a wedding planner, your ROI lives with Christina and her team. I would hire her again and again for any and all of my large events. Thank you Christina & Signature Events team for making May 2 the best day ever!

Synthesis: Christina is an amazing wedding planner/​coordinator! The best decision we made during our wedding planning process was to hire her as our coordinator for our Indian wedding. In hindsight, we wish we had met her earlier so we could have hired her as a wedding planner.
Some highlights:
— She is very warm, calm, and outgoing — a great personality to have around you on your wedding day! She is personable with her clients, and you get to develop a personal relationship with her.
— She has experience with planning Indian weddings, and she was a total pro with executing all the details, from the baraat, to the mandap, to everything in between.
— She is incredibly organized, detailed, and accessible. She goes above and beyond.
— She is very experienced. She has a well-​informed answer for everything.
— She helped us manage a messy situation with a vendor who was not meeting our expectations. She came in, advised on on next steps, attended meetings with us, and helped us find an amazing replacement vendor three weeks before our wedding when we let go of our unsatisfactory vendor.
— She connected us to an amazing caterer that came to our house and catered a pre-​wedding kick-​off party.
— She is a relationship builder and is very effective at managing family and vendors on the wedding day.
— She accompanied us to meetings at our venue and with our vendors as needed, which really helped us get clear on what we needed to move the planning forward.
— Her staff on the day of the wedding was awesome! Everyone came through and was on point.
If you are looking for someone who is efficient, creative, and has a track record of success, hire Christina!

I would like to thank Christina from Signature Events, it’s being a pleasure to work with you in several occasions.
As caterers is really important to have a good relationship with the coordinators and be able to connect with them, this makes our work much easier, this has being the case every time we work with you.
What we like the most about Christina is that she is very hands on, hard working and takes cares of every single detail making sure things run smooth and in time as planned.
May God Continue to Bless You and Bless your Business (you have many years of success ahead of you).

My husband and I got married about a month ago at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. We knew from the moment we started planning our wedding that we wanted a small, modern, and very personal event. I am fortunate enough to have the time to plan a wedding from start to finish – but after talking to friends and fellow brides, we’ve decided to hire a day-​of coordinator since I wanted to enjoy the day and not worry about anything (nor do I want any of our friends and family to «work» during our wedding day…).
I found Christina through Unilocal.After meeting with her for the first time, we knew we were meant to work with her! She is very animated yet professional. Let me tell you, though we hired her to as a Day-​Of Coordinator she went above and beyond the responsibilities listed on our contract. Every phone call I had with her, I can feel the weight of planning being lifted of my shoulders. She is reassuring throughout the whole process, definitely thinking of things that I am missing or details that I am forgetting.
Though it wasn’t originally in our budget, we had no regrets hiring Christina. We were able to enjoy our wedding day completely stress-​free! Even after the event, Christina made sure that we didn’t have to worry about items to take home since she packed it all for us and stored them at her office to be picked up anytime we are available.
I met a couple of coordinators prior to her, but future brides do yourselves a favor and hire Christina. She will help you enjoy the process of planning your wedding day with your groom – guarantee!
PS. It also helps that she has awesome contacts in the business! She might be able to get you discounts ;)

KEY TAKEAWAY:
Christina Romero is super funny, sweet, professional, organized, and most of all extremely passionate about her line of work. She helped make our intricate wedding plans come together, leaving my husband and I to enjoy the day totally stress-​free. :D
MY EXPERIENCE:
We didn’t originally consider hiring a wedding planner, but after a month of trying to plan our wedding, I found that it might be worth looking into. Plus I kept reading that hiring a planner is worth the investment, if it means less for you to worry about (it’s true!) I spent MANY HOURS researching potential wedding planners; Christina Romero was the first person we met with, and after meeting with 4 others, we already knew that Christina would be the best fit for us! Luckily she was still available for our wedding day (7 months later), and it turned out to be one of the best decisions we made.
Christina stood out to us because she had the perfect balance between professionalism and fun. :) Even after our initial consultation, she gave us a customized plan tailored to our specific needs. During the first few months, we met one-​on-​one a couple times and she always accompanied me to meet with various vendors (photographers, caterers, etc). She was always responsive over email, and if she wasn’t available to take my call she would always get back to me within a day. On our wedding day, even if I had not previously explained how certain details should be, Christina didn’t bother asking me or calling me about it (since I was running around getting ready like a mad person), but she simply figured everything out and made it work, which is exactly what I could have asked for!
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Christina’s greatest assets are her experience and her genuine understanding of how crazy and stressful it can be to plan a wedding. As your wedding planner (or any type of event planner), she will continue to do everything she can to make sure that YOU are totally happy with every decision. If you’re not 100% comfortable with something, or have any kind of concern, simply explain why and she will provide other options until you are satisfied. Even if you are just feeling generally stressed out, I’m certain that Christina will let you know that you can reach out to her anytime, even to just have someone to talk to. Yes, she’s a professional event planner, but she also truly, genuinely cares about her clients like a close friend (sounds cheesy but it’s true!)
CONCLUSION:
I HIGHLY recommend Christina Romero to help you plan your wedding or any type of event; she’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that you’re happy throughout the whole planning process (and it’s always about the journey itself anyway, isn’t it?) :)

Christina is a pleasure to work with. She is extremely organized, detailed, patient, responsible, and kind. Our wedding day went very smoothly thanks to all the work and time Christina has put in. She is very professional, even continues to help us take care of a few more things after our wedding concluded. My husband and I are extremely happy and grateful to have her as our day of coordinator. Thanks Christina.

My fiancé and I went to our first bridal fair this weekend and were blown away by the the booth at the entrance. It was gorgeous, the display of fresh flowers, table setting!!! WOW!
We got a chance to chat with Christina and again blown away, she was energetic and excited to share in our engagement. Sincere and genuine, we met many people at this event and for the most part felt they were SELLING instead of showing true interest. Christina was one of the presenters sharing why we need a wedding planner, she was funny and again very genuine. We walked the booths throughout the day and came back to her booth to schedule an appointment to get started on planning. We are SO EXCITED to see what her designs are for our vision of a perfect wedding day!

Went to the wedding faire today at the Santa Clara convention center today. As soon as I saw «Signature Events by Christina Romero» I immediately got excited because I’ve read reviews on her business before hand. I was walking into her booth and one of her employees was just about to give me a flier and she yelled at her employee and mugged me at the same time.
Christina: «Hey!!! Don’t give her that! She doesn’t have a sticker (indicates if someone is a bride/​groom/​mom)! Sorry! (In an annoyed voice while mugging me).»
Like honestly?! That is not a way to present yourself or talk to your employees! Maybe you should’ve prepped your employees ahead of time and let them know the dos and donts. If I wasn’t a wedding planner as well, I wouldn’t have hired her if I needed her to plan my future wedding. I would’ve taken my money somewhere more professional. She can have her licensing blah blah blah, but if she has no respect for her employees or potential customers, you can guarantee she’s not the right one to hire. You never know, she’ll only be nice once you hand her that check. So steer clear everyone!

I attended The Wedding Faire yesterday and visited her booth. It was amazing. Not only was the booth beautiful but her and her staff were so nice and «real». Often times you go to events like this and everyone is fake.
Beautiful everything!

This is long over due but here is our review:
My wife and I both live outside of the country and live a hectic life. We travel a lot and having Christina as our wedding planner was one of the best decisions we made for our once in a lifetime special day. We met Christina over a year before our planned event date through an acquaintance. Because of our situation, we hired Christina for her full package and definitely got our money’s worth.
Christina is well organized, has plenty of experience doing her job, and brings her «A» game. After all, planning and coordinating is her main job. She was our eyes and ears from the beginning. This was especially helpful since we were out of town in the months leading up to the event. We spent several hours on Skype calls and emails back and forth to ensure all of our details were covered. In addition to a large file folder just for our event, she had a minute by minute timeline for our event, handed out a copy to each vendor, and addressed them as to what was happening where and when. I believe she had visited the venue at least 3 times (one to scout, one with us, one with vendors). This is very important for an event to run smoothly and we were very pleased that Christina was able to coordinate with all of the other vendors.
Christina’s performance leading up to and at our wedding event shows her experience in planning and coordinating. She held everything together from the last minute bridezilla attacks from my wife to ensuring vendors perform to expectations. Of course my wife panicked a lot leading up to our wedding, but Christina had everything covered and kept calm. Christina even surprised my wife at the church (she had obligations at our reception venue but was able to sneak out to calm down the bride-​to-​be). She had even planned snacks for us. We were so busy ourselves that we forgot to plan for lunch.
Lastly, coordinating also means you need to be on top of your game. Christina, no doubt, was ready from the get go. At the event, one of our vendors had malfunctions with their equipment. Christina was able to handle them directly and we didn’t have to worry at all about it (we actually found out after the wedding). In fact, the vendor had a problem for a few hours, but got half the event covered, nevertheless, Christina demanded the vendor to give us a full refund as their services didn’t meet her expectations (we had hired this vendor independently from her recommended ones, go figure).
So if you’re looking for a wedding planner, Christina and her staff are worth their weight in gold.

This review is also long WAY overdue. It is VERY much deserved. My apologies to Christina! Here we go!
The first time my husband and I met Christina, her bubbly personality instantly won us over. She was representing her company at a wedding vendors event. We were newly engaged and decided to check it out. Christina spoke with us, got to know us, inspired us and we exchanged information.
We then met with her to talk more about our vision for our wedding. Christina was enthusiastic, easy going, supportive, had a lot of connections and had a lot of great ideas. So, we decided to hire her as our wedding coordinator and are so glad we did!
From that day, Christina was there for us with any and all of the questions that we had. We were the first of our friends to get married so we didn’t know what to do. She guided us through the entire process. There were specific things that we wanted and we didn’t know how to go about it… but Christina made them happen!
Christina took care of everything for us. It was so awesome to not have to deal with vendors ourselves. She also knows a lot of people in the industry which helped us to pick our wedding venue, our photographer, our makeup artist, our cake and our flowers! They were all amazing vendors who made our wedding awesome! She even connected us with a travel agent who put together our unforgettable honeymoon!
The day turned out to be an amazing day. It flowed so smoothly. I didn’t have to worry about a thing. Christina was there the whole day making sure that everything went according to plan. My family and friends were so amazed by her and her hard work into putting everything together — as were Ryan and me! They said that our wedding was one of the most fun weddings they’ve been to! We agree!
Christina is organized, attentive, persistent, knowledgable, friendly, and like a mom and a best friend all rolled in one spectacular and hard-​working woman! I don’t know how she does her job but she does it so well! She really cares about her clients and what they want. She will do everything in her power to make sure that they are happy!
She helped us to put all the pieces of our wedding puzzle together. In the end, we had an unforgettable and amazing day! A million thank yous, Christina & company! We are so happy to have met you, worked with you and happy that your business is flourishing!

This review is WAY overdue but much deserved.
First a little about me — I have an event management background and used to manage multiple national trade shows, press events and product launches professionally for half a decade. When I started planning my wedding I completely overlooked that I would need to release the reins and allow someone to be the cruise ship captain the day of my wedding. When it finally hit me I believe it was half a year or less till my wedding day! I started searching for day of wedding coordinators everywhere, online, via referrals, even craigslist! With my background I scrutinizing each candidate — if I had to give up the reins that person had to be as good or better than myself. After more than 5+ interviews — Christina was the ONLY person who fit the bill. She may be the day of wedding coordinator but she understands that «day of» doesn’t mean show up day of, or start integrating with the wedding details a few weeks before — it means an investment of time and self-​education to get to understand her brides and grooms, their vision, their vendors and the space.
For my wedding September 2013 — she immediately jumped right in after we hired her and reviewed the contracts to ensure they were all kosher, nothing missed and most importantly I wasn’t being ripped off. She understands it was our wedding our vision and our wedding timeline flow. Because she is so experienced she was able to make expert advice on timing allocations, where she foresaw pitfalls with the timing and details we had overlooked.
Christina was hands on and showed up at our walk through to go with us through the venue to eyeball everything and then make further recommendations based on our layout, the decorations/​details and where she saw problems. All of which take experience. Prior to the wedding she drafts up an extremely detailed itinerary for both the wedding party and vendors. She also did a walk through with the vendors prior to the wedding and established points of contact for everyone. Needless to say no wedding is without hiccups — which I wouldn’t know since she took care of them for me and I found out about them AFTER my wedding. Yes — that is how good she is.
Post wedding we still see her for dinners, once a client always a friend in her book. She’s simply the right choice for a bride who wants the perfect wedding.

Christina Romero is better than I could’ve hoped for! My wedding had quite a few hiccups that she resolved with ease and patience.
My wedding venue closed 90 days before my wedding for a renovation (AND NAME CHANGE). They were terrible to deal with and initially even refused to pay for me to get my invitations re-​printed with the new name. Christina managed that relationship through the course of the battle and made sure to ease my anxiety. Not only did she have a solution within hours, but we actually got a whole new venue the very next day and it was amazing (and way cheaper!)
I am pretty intense and Christina was not phased one bit. She is extremely patient, understanding, and tough when she needs to be. She will definitely go to bat for you.
Beyond the planning, Christina made sure that our wedding was exactly what we wanted. If there were any hiccups, we sure didn’t notice. She was always there to get me to where I needed to be, in the outfit I needed to wear. Just great!
If you are considering anyone else, DON’T. My expectations were extremely high and she thrived with flying colors.

Christina is incredible. She helped us weather a ton of adversity leading up to our wedding and made everything run as smoothly as possible. She was always accessible and quick to communicate. She also negotiated great rates for our reception and hotel room block saving everyone a lot of money. She’s fun and goes hard for you and that’s all I could ever wish for in a wedding planner!

Christina Romero has proven to be an amazing, reliable, flexible, professional, and patient wedding coordinator! Our wedding reception was a smashing success thanks to Christina’s impeccable attention to detail. From A to Z, I could count on her to be on point with her suggestions and timely reality checks. From our first consultation meeting, I felt that she completely understood our vision for an intimate garden party reception. Her knowledge of design and flow were invaluable in managing the rentals for our event, and her can-​do attitude made it effortless for us. She supported us with space design, decoration decisions, rentals, our wedding cake order, preparatory phone consults with our DJ and caterer, timeline preparation, day of set-​up, reception staff, and break-​down/​clean up… the list goes on, but suffice it to say she truly went above-​and-​beyond. Christina’s organized preparation methods and wedding day coordination allowed us to sit back and enjoy the party because we could trust that she had everything under control. She is attentive to the little details, but never loses sight of the big picture. I’m so glad that we hired Signature Events by Christina Romero. It was truly our pleasure, and I will recommend her without reservation at any opportunity.

Where do I begin?
Christina Romero and her team are absolutely amazing! Christina and her team managed to make our special day as magical and wonderful as we had imagined! She was able to work with us, even though my husband and I are not from the bay area although our families are and even though I was an entire continent away; she was so precise, very professional. I didn’t have to put much thought or energy into much because Christina knew exactly what I wanted and made it all possible. Her and her staff are friendly, professional and very very very reliable. on the day of my wedding, I had many people give wonderful compliments on what a wonderful job Christina and her team did on the wedding… from décor, to lighting, to flowers and centerpieces, it was all gorgeous! I also want to add that not only was she a HUGE help in planning the wedding, but during the day she was there the entire time. She was friendly to my guests and family and she made sure that everything ran as smoothly as possible. I didn’t have to worry about a single thing, all thanks to Christina! She really cares about clients and she makes sure to give you as much advice as she sees fit. She worked so well with us and our crazy oversized families and all of our guests. I can’t stop saying how absolutely amazing and wonderful it was to work with Christina and her team!
Thank you for making our day so special!

I was excited to illicit the help of a small, local business/​event professional to work with in planning my fabulous party. I have a lot of experience with event planning, but I thought this company could help me make it even more extraordinary. Unfortunately, this company didn’t meet simple customer service requirements so it won’t get the opportunity to work for me. I placed a call to the business Sunday afternoon and repeated my phone number twice on the voicemail along with a message indicating what I was looking for. I speak perfect English and quite clear so it’s not that they couldn’t understand the message. Monday-​no call back, Tuesday-​no call back. Also, I called during business hours Tuesday and got a voicemail-​again. I was utterly disgusted by then. Hello??? I started to wonder if these people were on vacation, out of the country or in jail? Whatever the reason, it was maddening I didn’t get a return call. I decided to call once more Wednesday 7:00ish to try again to reach someone. Much to my surprise, someone answered with a, «Hello». I was uncertain I had the right number because legitimate businesses answer with the name of their business, not a generic «Hello». I clarified by asking if I had the correct phone number because I would expect a greeting with the business name. The person on the other end then said,“Oh, yes, you have the right phone number”. I chided her for not returning my call and she tried to brush it aside without giving me a valid explanation. I was hoping she would say something that would possibly help to restore my confidence in her, but instead, she had the audacity to quizically ask me who I was. Her tone was inappropriate. Therefore, I was taken aback even further by this, on top of them never returning my call. She finally began acting like a business owner interested in business and asked me how she could help me. I kinda mumbled what I was looking for even though I should have just hung up after that disaster because I had no intention whatsoever of hiring her. I will plan my own fabulous party, thank you. A little tip for the owner: you said you forward your business calls to your cell phone. Well, potential clients don’t know this so you should answer with your comapny name to prevent any confusion. Also, it helps if you promptly return client messages. Who knew, but you have just missed out on a huge money payday. I was interested in hiring you for the smaller event and another 4 large events within the next year. But it’s not gonna happen.

Wow… I can’t even begin to thank Christina for all her help during our wedding. She saved me time, money and most importantly, my sanity.
After doing a majority of planning, I realized I needed some additional help planning «My Big Fat Egyptian Wedding» about halfway through the process so I looked into finding a «day of coordinator». After talking to a few other vendors, I knew I had found just the right person when I talked to Christina. I connected with her instantly.
We were planning our wedding from a distance which made her even more critical. Christina is warm, friendly and on top of EVERY detail. She suggested superb vendors, negotiated on our behalf and got us great deals.
In addition to her long list of great vendors, Christina was always available for any questions (Even late at night!) and she went above and beyond the call of duty. She is constantly working and her clients are her number one priority. She even went over to my parent’s house to pick up the wedding favors!
I only wish we had started working with Christina earlier! My whole family loved her and she made the day flawless… We have received so many compliments and were told it was the best wedding people had ever been too! I would recommend Christina to anyone planning a wedding or any other event in the Bay Area.

I don’t even know where to start when writing this review because all I can say is that we were so pleased with the service that Christina and her team offered us all the way from the beginning to the end.
We used Christina for a full wedding package. I had never considered a wedding planner in that I was planning to have a «budget» wedding. Christina made me feel very comfortable and explained how we could work within my budget. She did an initial consultation (which I reccomend for EVERY bride) and brought up so many details that I had not even thought of. I knew right away she would be great to work with and would be a huge part of making my wedding planning enjoyable, organized, and beautiful. (and she did that, plus more)
I worked with Christina over the next 14 months. She is so awesome. She is fun, energetic, passionate, has great taste, can read people and understand what they need. She is ALWAYS professional, even tempered, creative, flexible, and has a CAN DO attitude.
Christina sets a bar and only works with great vendors. She is creative in working «for» you to get you what you want. She knows everything there is to know about wedding planning and can help you decide where you want to put your resources. She will go ABOVE and BEYOND to make your dreams come true. My wedding was just as important to Christina as it was to me. She worked her tail off to support us on our day and make sure everyone was having a great time as well as making sure all the vendors provided top-​knotch service.
It was an amazing day. All my guests could not say enough about our beautiful and special day.
Thank you Christina… we love you!
If any one has any questions about Christina/​Elegant Occasions, I would be happy to share my experience with you.

Christina was my «day of» wedding coordinator. Listen to me ladies, if you aren’t planning on going the whole way with a full time wedding coordinator, at least look at Christina for the day of your wedding.
I’m a natural worrier, and I would have had the most stressful day ever if Christina hadn’t been there to make sure everything ran smoothly. And seriously, she did more than just day-​of stuff. She referred me to some pretty great vendors and got me some great deals — she sure knows how to bargain with the vendors! I loved it!
The biggest thing that she did for us was we had our photographer come a little later so that we could get more shots towards the end of the night, and as a result, we didn’t have him around to shoot the ‘getting ready’ pictures. Well, what do we see that day? Christina brought 2 photographers that she knew to take the pictures for free! I almost burst into tears, it was such a sweet thing that she did… she is truly a great person and she will help you have a fabulous wedding day! She really does go above and beyond. If I had to do it all over again, I would hire her again in a heartbeat! Thank you Christina for making our day even more special!