Kumba Entertainment & Event Services

Do not read reviews below. Hetal is a cheap guy, untrustworthy with money, terrible and such a hard head to work with, always refers us to different numbers, and is never available to meet for god knows what reasons. Especially when it comes to money. He owed us 480 $ four weeks ago, and first he claims «his boys left the check» (very unprofessional). He says he’ll make a direct deposit. Supply him with the info needed. Nothing. After pestering him with phone calls from various numbers, he claims he had made the transfer a few days ago and the money should be in the accounts. Not true. After calling multiple times again, he tells us to meet him at some address that isn’t even his own business and to our surprise… No show. Apparently his truck «broke down.» After waiting for a few hours, he tells us a guy named Leroy will give us a check. Within seconds we receive a check. Open it up. 475 $. Really dude? You’re gonna be that cheap? Come on man, and we even waited for him to come. He comes, we ask to talk to him. He says he will after meeting his client. Doesn’t end up talking to us. Never doing business with him again. I highly recommend you avoid him as well.

Hetal provided me decorating services on the day of my mehndi, mayun, and wedding. He was extremely easy to work with. I had a one on one meeting with him about a month before my wedding and had shown him pictures and discussed what I wanted each event to look like. He performed all his work within my budget. Most vendors were giving me unfair deals, but Hetal was very reasonable. He always answered my emails and phone calls in a timely manner. I would definitely recommend him! Everyone complimented his work at all my events. He exceeded my expectations– gave me everything i asked for and more. The canopies especially were amazing!

Made the delivery on time. Brought exactly what I wanted. The rental items really made the event and pictures look awesome! Hard to get a hold of sometimes, but he comes through! Was recommended by family and I would recommend him any day.

Even though the day of turned out ok, it did not come without headaches. Very unprofessional about responding and being clear about making me as the bride feel confident in his work. The day of overall was ok, but he still forgot a few things. He also addressed many of our concerns last minute, making it very difficult for me to even know if he’ll do the work well.
It’s not worth the cheaper cost, because of the horrible customer service and lack of providing confidence in his work to his customers.

Hetal is a pioneer in the South Asian wedding industry. I had the pleasure working with him during my wedding at the Ritz in Marina Del Rey.
I have to say that his strongest point was his ability to charm my audience. I’ve never really seen anyone take control of a crowd, come up with jokes and just really present that type of charisma. With new Dj software everyone thinks there a dj and we had so many kids try to pawn us off on some cheap packages by meeting us at a starbucks… I have to say that it felt good to know that if something went wrong I could go knocking on his office door.
He’s a very good guy and he had a few of his dj’s handle the series of our wedding week. I think with any one shop stop you have to spend a little extra time making sure your organized especially if you don’t have a wedding coordinator or things fall back on you. While we hit a few hiccups due to some last minute requests from my family all in all everything was perfect.
Thanks Hetal for rocking my wedding day with your charm, jokes, music selection and of course the wedding décor.
I wish you the best in all your endeavors! Cheers!

I had heard good things about Kumba from other friends of mine who went with Hetal to coordinate their weddings and was very pleased with my wedding planning experience. Hetal was very easy to work with, professional, organized, accessible, responsive and flexible when we needed to change things on him last second, clear and up front about costs. He and his team seemed intent on making sure we got what we were looking for. Many people who came to our wedding thought it looked amazing, from the mandap to the horse to the pinspot lighting and centerpieces. I have no clue what some of these other reviews on here are talking about, Kumba is a solid wedding vendor, especially for grooms (or brides) who get stuck doing most of the wedding planning and need a lil assistance. thanks again!

I must have known Hetal the «Hooter» for about a couple of decades by now and have been to countless parties DJ’d by him! He is by far the best DJ in town for Bollywood parties!
So we hired him for our latest anniversary party. He kept the dance floor rocking and busy till the end. It remained full without we having to pull people to the dance floor… Now that’s the power of music and that’s the power of Hetal:) Each and everyone of our guests enjoyed the party and the music… thanks for which goes to Hetal as he was personally spinning the tracks along with an assistant.
Besides this, they also provide event management and decorations so we had him do backgroup for the stage. He had emailed me some pictures and all we had to do was select the design we liked. Then I requested the color combinations we wanted. That’s it and he did that very well too! And done within a short period of time!
If you want to have a Talk-​Of-​The-​Town-​Party, Hetal is the one to go with!

Definitley a one stop shop. Huge warehouse in the back so you can actually see what they have vs. pictures. Got more than I expected. Very reliable and very professional. We had Kumba DJ at our reception, and rented table covers, chairs, mandap, and extra decorations.

Please, look elsewhere for DJ and entertainment services. We hired to Hetal to do the decorations for our pre-​wedding ceremony, and then DJ our reception. On the day of the pre-​wedding ceremony he showed up FIVE HOURS LATE. Numerous phone calls went unanswered. Eventually we recruited family to start putting decorations together ourselves. He eventually showed up with some lame excuse.
For the reception we provided him with a program in advance as well as certain songs for dances that were going to be done. We provided the music for him, but he played different versions… messing up some choreography. He forgot to announce some speakers (despite us giving him a written list of all the speakers in order), and announced our names wrong for the grand entrance (again, despite us providing this all written for him).
Please do yourself a favor and look elsewhere!

So my sister’s wedding was last Saturday and I was very disappointed in Hetal. Overall, the wedding itself was phenomenal and no one really noticed the little things, but me being the planner I was furious.
First off, many pinspots were missing for the centerpieces (you couldn’t even see the flowers, it was just a shadow and i paid for them!!!), draping fabric was dirty and stained, the crystals on the draping were uneven and i had to tell them to fix it, he had some issues controlling volume during the hindu ceremony, he was kind of standoffish and not so friendly, and he was very hard to get a hold of when we were planning.
The hindu ceremony was beautiful though, the mandap and the horse in the baraat was amazing. The music was good as well but thats because we chose it.
Despite the good, the bad far outweighed all of it, and when I had to pay him at the end and told him all the things that went wrong he gave me attitude, said his work was for nothing and that he should might as well not get paid. I still paid (contract) but i deducted the things that were missing, and did not tip. If you need a DJ, find it somewhere else or use Hetal and include SPECIFIC things in your contract just in case he screws you over or is rude.

The story of our dealings with Kumba is a tale entitled «Hetal the Horse Whisperer.» We were planning our Indian wedding to take place in San Diego. We chose Kumba because we thought they were cheaper than anyone else. We were wrong, but we will get there.
We met Hetal, the operator of Kumba. He wasn’t particularly pleasant or friendly but their work looked good. We went home to discuss it. We selected them based on cost and quality of the portfolio. It took over 2 months for them to take our payment. Hetal would not return our emails, phone calls, or anything. It was like they didn’t want our business. We found out later he was trying to do us a favor.
Smash cut forward 4 months. They have taken the money and we are now planning to meet with Hetal to talk about logistics and plan the colors, etc. We leave, on a Sunday morning, from the happiness of San Diego to trek out to the business parks of Anaheim. We get to Kumba and it is empty. No one is there, lights off, doors locked, parking lot vacant. We call Hetal, we hear the phone ringing inside the building. We call the emergency number he has, phone rings in the building. Emergency numbers don’t work when forwarded to the regular office phone. We wait in our car, futilely calling the two numbers for about an hour. Then we decide to leave. When we get back to San Diego he calls us with bizarre story about how he was at a wedding… and there was a horse… and the horse was being angry… and the groom couldn’t ride the horse. For one it was a pretty terrible lie. I did the same piling on details kind of lying when I was 4. Secondly, I really doubt that Hetal is the horse whisperer he wishes. As if there was a horse and he was the only person who can quiet the thrashing beast. And if that is the case why would he make our meeting appointment so soon to the time he has to potentially comfort the savage equine. I know it is easy to over estimate the horsemanship of Southern Californians
The next day when I called to find out what happened his office staff told me that he said we bailed on him and that he was there the whole time. Classy guy this Hetal is. We asked for our money back and he gave it back without question. Good sign he knows he failed, pretty badly.
We went with another company we looked at before we chose Kumba. When we really crunched the numbers we found out that Kumba was considerably more expensive. Kumba is a blight on the wedding planning community of Southern California.