5 out of 5 stars and 26 reviews
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(26)18685 Main Street #178, Serving LA/Orange County, CA
About this vendor
The Seaside Strings specialize in professional classical entertainment for your wedding ceremony, party, or event. Serving Southern California, we have ensembles of different sizes and instrumentation to custom-fit any type of event and budget.
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2015 'Best of Weddings'
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Wonderful performance! Punctual & professional! This was the perfect touch to our wedding.
We had Seaside Strings perform for our ceremony and cocktail hour. We were so pleased with how it turned out! Seaside Strings really made our wedding feel elegant and the music wa...
s breathtaking.
We hired the string trio for our wedding ceremony and were so pleased with how it turned out. Seaside Strings really made our wedding feel elegant and the music was breathtaking. I...
remember walking down the isle and hearing Canon in D live and feeling like it was the most perfect moment in the world. Thank you Seaside Strings for making our ceremony so incredibly special!!!
The music was absolutely great and they were punctual. The communication with Chris was superb and made everything so much easier! Great job guys!!!πππππΌππΌππΌ
Chris and the three other musicians that were part of the string quartet did a wonderful job at our wedding this weekend. They were timely and got set up well in advance of our eve...
nt, then played lovely music for our cocktail hour. We were very pleased overall and would recommend them to add an elegant touch to your event.
We used Seaside Strings for our wedding in March. They were very easy to work with, professional, and sounded breathtaking at our wedding ceremony. I would recommend them to anyon...
e looking for musicians for an event!
I hired the cello and violin duo for my church ceremony. My husband is a classically trained musician and he was very impressed with their playing. Their music added a beautiful no...
te to our ceremony and they even played to entertain the guests for some time before our ceremony because our transportation was late! My guests were very pleased as was I.
I couldn't have been happier with our choose of string quartets for our wedding ceremony! They were wonderful and easy to work with! And they sounded sooo good during our outdoor...
wedding ceremony! I wanted a surprise trumpet during our exit to All You Need is Love (as my husband loves the movie Love Actually), they were able to accommodate that and it was perfect!!!
Seaside strings provided everything you would want in a ceremony musician! They responded to all of my emails promptly and politely, they were incredibly flexible when I changed so...
ngs at the last minute, and they were prompt and professional at the wedding!! They were incredibly talented and really made the ceremony special! They were worth every penny!!
I hired Seaside Strings (a duo- violin and Cielo) to play for my ceremony and cocktail hour (two hours total). They were running a special that made this classy touch to my special...
day very affordable. The musicians were very professional and played beautiful music that really added a special touch.
Coordinating with them was the easiest part of what I put together for the day as Chris is very responsive via email.
Not only are the musicians from Seaside Strings talented but they are professional and always on time. Very reliable.
We were thrilled with seaside strings- efficiency, timing, music, doing exactly what they said they would do. Chris was very courteous and returned my calls and emails quickly. I w...
ould recommend them to anyone.
We used this group for our wedding ceremony on 9/12/14. Everything about this group, from first contact to the final performance, was spot-on! Not only that, there was a specific...
song choice that the groom made for our walk out music at the end of the ceremony that they did not have handy. Not only did they find the music we wanted, it sounded fantastic! If you are anywhere near the area that this group can be of service to you, use them! We were so happy with their performance, and still to this day (10/19) get compliments from our wedding guests of their performance. THANK YOU!
Seaside strings was amazing at our wedding!! They arrived early, set up and played beautifully! It MADE our ceremony! Chris was very friendly and helpful in helping us pick out t...
he music, and I got to walk down the aisle to my favorite song, Canon in D. All the guests commented on how lovely the music was!
Thank you so much for making our ceremony unforgettable!
I wish I could've spent more time listening to these amazing musicians. We wanted a string trio who would play contemporary music during our ceremony and cocktail hour and that is ...
exactly what we got! They played "Clocks" by Coldplay as I walked down the aisle and it was beautiful! Great job! Highly recommend!
Chris was a pleasure to work with!!! Planning a wedding is VERY stressful and his calm demeanor made the process very easy! He also made some very good recomendations without seemi...
ng like he was trying to oversell business. I couldnβt have done this without him!! Thank you Chris and Seaside Strings for all your hard work and support!!! You made my wedding an enjoyable one and helped create memories that will last a lifetime. :) ο
My name is Michelle and I was recently married on August 16,2014 at the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro Ca. I will never forget the special memories I will keep with me forever...
. What I loved the most is the beautiful sounds coming from the instruments as I walked down the isle. Seaside Strings are amazing and I would recommend them to all brides.
Chris and his musicians were amazing. The music for the ceremony was perfect and they did more then expected. The moment that I heard "hear comes the bride" and walked down that ai...
sle with my Dad.. will forever be in my mind. Thank you so much for being so wonderful!
The seaside strings were fantastic. We had special song requests that they accommodated without issue and they sounded perfect!
We selected Seaside Strings to provide the ceremony music during our catholic mass in spanish and we were very happy with their performance especially considering it was a spanish ...
mass. We were very pleased with Chris- he was very responsive and incredibly easy to work with throughout the process. Lastly, I also appreciate that they learned a song (almost last minute) that I wanted played during our mass and which he did not have in his repetoire.
We were lucky to have had a wedding channel coupon which only cost us half of what they normally charge but overall I do recommend Seaside Strings. My husband and I wanted an elegant wedding and we definitely got one.
We selected Seaside Strings to provide live music during the ceremony and to entertain during pictures / happy hour for our wedding at SeaCliff Country Club in Huntington Beach, an...
d could not be more pleased with Chris and the entire string quartet. Seaside Strings was very responsive and incredibly easy to work with throughout the process, and even learned three of our favorite (non-traditional) songs for inclusion in the ceremony (all we did was provide the piano sheet music, and they did the rest!). Overall, we highly recommend Seaside Strings!
We were very pleased with Seaside Strings. The bride was out of state so we each spent hours listening and gaining knowledge not only on what group we wanted to use but also what ...
songs. Seaside was able to perform a nice mixture of classical and modern selections. Chris was very happy to fill requests yet he was at the same time helpful and honest when we had chosen things that might not work well or had chosen too many songs for the amount of time needed. Chris was good at consulting us in what was feasible and appropriate for the ceremony. I had many comments from guests who said they thoroughly enjoyed the music especially before the ceremony. I had previously told several guests to go as early as possible get a good seat in the chapel and enjoy......and they did! Seaside arrived on time, set up, were never in the way, knew what they were doing, took cues and worked very well with the wedding coordinators and filled all of our needs. Chris was very prompt with contracts and paperwork. I would work with them again and would recommend Seaside!
Chris is amazing to work with and made everything so simple for me. I got married in the Catholic Church and they are a little more strict but Chris was very flexible and was such ...
a joy to work with. He was on time and answered all my questions. Use Seaside Strings. You won't be disappointed!
We bought a wedding wire coupon for them, so they were very reasonably priced anyways. They sounded amazing! I didn't want the typical wedding music, so they did acoustic country s...
ongs. Best idea ever! Everyone loved it and it made the ceremony so much more personal. Definitely recommended!
Seaside Strings were great! Not only did they sound wonderful, but they were able to play a song that was not in there repertoire. I sent them a mp4 and they figured out how to pla...
y it spot-on. Compared to other strings quartets I called, there prices were the best. I was totally satisfied with Seaside Strings. The only thing I would say- and this was not at all there fault, but just something I didn't think of- was that we never told them where we wanted them set up. We just assumed they would be at the front of the church beneath the alter. However, they set-up in the rear balcony where the choir would normally sing. This is also where the organ was located. Because of this we ended up never seeing them. The entire ceremony went by and neither I nor my groom ever saw them- we just heard them. They sounded excellent but would have liked them clearly visible by the guests. We never thought to tell them this or to tell our wedding planner to tell them. We just instinctively assumed they would be at the front. We wonder if our guests even knew the music was being played live. For all they know it could have been a cd.
Seaside strings was wonderful! Chris responded very quickly to all my emails and phone calls and gave me options to work with my pricing. I hired them to play for my wedding cere...
mony and they didn't miss a beat! They were great!
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18685 Main Street #178, Serving LA/Orange County, CA
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