CSE History
The story of Common Sense Events begins with Jonathan and Julianna, picking up shifts with a local catering company and realizing, there aren’t that many great staffing options in the hospitality industry.
After spending 8 years solving that problem and growing their company to hundreds of team members and staffing large events including Comic Con, Stagecoach, and Coachella, it was time, to shift their attention to serving venues.
Having worked at hundreds of venues across California, they were no stranger to the needs of venues and since 2018 have worked with venues of all sizes and at all stages of growth.
Our Values
TEAM
We Are a High Performing Team
We put in the reps
We work together
We get shit done
SERVICE
We Are Here to Serve
Stewardship
Hospitality
We are a trusted partner
Optimistic realism
TRUTH WITH LOVE
We Speak the Truth & How We Treat Others Matters
Integrity
Kindness
Mutual respect
Honor
Consideration
EXCELLENCE
Pursuit of Our Potential
We relentlessly pursue our best
We elevate experiences
We exceed expectations
Our Vision
To facilitate life’s most meaningful experiences.
Our Mission
To provide exceptional venue management services that exceed our clients’ expectations, create memorable events for guests, and generate revenue for our partners.
Our Company Promise
CSE will provide a healthy work environment that encourages personal and professional growth, accountability, and equal opportunity for advancement.
CSE is committed to treating employees with the same care, honor, dignity, and respect that they are expected to share externally with every partner, client, and guest.
Common Sense Events Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
Inclusion Statement
We are excited for the opportunity to create incredible experiences for guests of all genders, races, ages, national origins, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, physical and mental ability, and professional or life experiences. One of our core values is to speak the truth with love. This core value specifically mentions mutual respect, honor, and consideration and our team members, associates, and vendors are required to hold themselves to a high standard at all times in service of our clients. We make every effort to accommodate a variety of needs at our venues and have taken steps to ensure that all our venue websites are regularly checked for ADA and WCAG 2.1 compliance. If you feel like we have missed something, have suggestions on ways we can better serve our community and clients, or notice anything we can do to serve our clients better, please let us know by emailing: hr@cseventservices.com.
Meet Jonathan
In 2018, Common Sense Events Inc. (CSE) started managing one wedding venue in their local San Diego market. After the initial impact of COVID was felt, and looking for a way to expand how they served the industry, CSE’s staffing operations were acquired by a national staffing firm, and CSE Inc. pivoted to provide full scale wedding/event venue management services. Within the first 9 months, they quickly grew to managing 5 venues throughout San Diego County and continue to grow today.
Jonathan is also the founder and host of The Venue Rx podcast, a YouTube channel and podcast dedicated to educating wedding and event professionals around the world by providing a weekly prescription of tips, tools, tactics, and inspiration to start or grow wedding and events businesses.
Our Partners
CSE is proudly partnered with Event Helper to offer low-cost event insurance with superior coverage for all of our clients. Each time clients book their insurance through our partner link, we donate 100% of our partner commission to our favorite local organization: Got Your Back San Diego. For every partner commission donated, we also make a 1:1 matching contribution from our company, doubling the impact we are able to make in the community.
Got Your Back San Diego is a non-profit that provides a weekend food assistance program for children who attend San Diego County schools, whose main source of nutrition is cafeteria food Monday through Friday but, apart from school, lack a reliable food source on Saturday and Sunday. Every week, volunteers fill backpacks with enough food to sustain each child throughout the weekend. Each $30 donation ensures that a child will have 6 nutritious meals every weekend for an entire month. With the way we’ve set up our partner commission donations with Event Helper, we are able to feed 1 child for an entire month for every wedding that we book, and also each time one of our events gets insured.
“I’ve worked at Common Sense Events for the past four years and can confidently say I’ve never had a negative experience. My fellow coworkers at CSE have always been positive and hard working.”
— Emily B.