Bay Area Doves – White Dove Releases

Carolyn returned my call promptly and was so easy and personable to talk with. We scheduled a time for the upcoming weekend. After the funeral she was waiting at the graveside, professionally dressed with 12 doves in individual heart shaped baskets. We had the option to hold the doves ourselves, or open the basket at the appointed time. We all decided to hold them. They squirm around a bit but even a 7 year old and 10 year old were able to manage.
After seeing a body lowered into the grave it is so inspiring to see the doves released into the heavens. We got so many positive comments about the release and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again, or to hire Bay Area Doves.

My mother’s burial was on Saturday January 3^rd, 2015 and I decided to go with Bay Area Doves for her burial services.
The procedure of setting up the doves was no stress at all.
I left a message late Friday night, and was given a call the following morning to set the dove release at the burial in a matter of 5 minutes. The doves were there waiting before we even got to the grave sight.
Many guests had spoke about the dove release added a special touch to the funeral service.
Thank you Bay Area Doves!
Kimmy Dela Sierra

These guys are great! We had their dove release at the close of a memorial service and it was simply beautiful. The customer service was excellent, they were on time and patient when our service went way overtime. I highly recommend Bay Area Doves!

My dads funeral was this past Monday and I found these guys on Unilocal by accident. We had never thought to release doves. Anyway I talked with my sister and she said yes let’s do it. The handler was very nice and she explained to us how the releasing would work. She waited patiently through his service (took longer than we originally thought) then she asked if we would like to release the doves by hand or from the baskets and who would release the first dove. I’m the eldest so my sister wanted me to release the first one. My daughter being the eldest grandchild was able to release it with me too. After my daughter and I released the first one my two sisters released the others from the two heart shaped baskets. It was awesome even tho we were so distraught it brought a smile to everyone’s faces to see the beautiful white doves. The website is extremely easy to use and I ordered the amount of doves, time wanted and paid all within less than 10 minutes. A confirmation email was sent and we were set. The handler even came early. If you are planning a wedding, funeral or whatever special occasion I highly recommend getting doves. It was definitely an experience to remember and reasonable pricing. (We had monarch butterflies for my moms funeral and the price comparison is about equal)

We had a wonderful wedding not too long ago. We had Bay Area Doves at our wedding which added to attraction, all my guests loved it, they were taking pictures while we released the two beautiful doves. I’m glad I hired them!

For the second year we had Bay Area Doves being a part of our event Keep ABREAST Walk/​Run to raise funds for the HERS Breast Cancer Foundation. Bay Area Doves is an extremely efficient and professional company. They ALWAYS arrive ahead of time and have everything ready for us. Jimmy has always a smile on his face when he delivers the beautiful baskets with the doves to us and that makes our event even more special. We hope do to business with them for many years to come.

My fiancé-​husband took care of arranging this very exciting special touch for our wedding. He found Jimmy to be very cooperative to work with, and I was thrilled with the beautiful doves that arrived at our ceremony! We asked that Jenny, our release coordinator, hide in the back until she was cued to surprise the guests. Bay Area Doves offered us a beautiful speech to accompany the release, but we chose to ask my Sensei to write a few specific words about freedom, flight, loyalty and love. I anticipated this moment for months! I even had my dress altered so it looked like I had angel wings to raise up and fly. In the midst of our very traditional ceremony, Sensei’s speech introduced a breath of fresh air and true beauty. Jenny snuck in exactly at the right moment and placed the most darling, sweet, well-​groomed, and seemingly happy dove into my hands.
It felt so magical to hold such a beautiful creature. Seeing pictures, I felt like Cinderella in an enchanted forest. The expression on my fiancé-husband’s face was so priceless and loving. I loved seeing him hold the other dove. The feeling of releasing our doves together could only be described as if we took off in flight ourselves. My husband still remembers the sound of the wings in the air as the doves flew out of our hands to the sky. My only regret is that I forgot to tell our Sensei to let our guests know that the doves circle the sky three times before flying home together. I did tell the videographer so I am really hoping that is at least captured on video. While our videographer focused on the doves, I had our photographer focus on us, because I think the moment of holding the dove up to take flight is as incredible as the dove flying in the sky. What an incredible experience.
I am also extremely concerned about kind animal treatment, and I asked several questions about the care and transport of the doves. My husband assured me that these doves were treated humanely, and it appeared that these doves were extremely happy and healthy. Thank you Jimmy and Jenny at Bay Area Doves!

I used Bay Area Doves for my dove release at the wedding.
The guests LOVED it and honestly i think that was the most exciting part of my ceremony and I was very much looking forward to throwing the doves into the air. The pictures turned out GREAT too!
Jimmy, Steve, and Carolyn were all very nice and easy to work with. They don’t often pick up their phone but you can leave a message and they return it about 99% of the time.
They were very in tune with the process during the ceremony and there weren’t any hiccups.
My fiancé’s bird sort of stalled in mid-​air for a second and we were all afraid it was going to nose dive but it wasn’t the bird’s fault. I think my fiancé threw it sideways and not upwards and so the poor bird was probably confused. It made for some funny stories.
All in all, i would highly recommend Bay Area Doves for all your dove releasing needs and I can’t imagine using anyone else.

Bay Area Doves did a white dove release for our recent charity event, the Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, and I cannot recommend them highly enough. We had ZERO problems working with them and not a single complaint. From the time we started working with Jimmy and his family 4 months before the event, we have always received timely professional responses from him and everyone else at Bay Area Doves. He was accomodating, had great suggestions during the planning process and most importantly showed up at the event exactly on time with the doves! The release went without a hitch and was a wonderful, heartfelt addition to our event. The baskets he brought were beautiful and all the doves you could tell had been well trained for this event as they gathered above and flew back South towards their home.
Thank you Bay Area Doves for making our event so special!

It has been 6 months since my review and I recently received a thoughtful email from Jimmy at Bay Area Doves. He acknowledged the poor communication I had experienced and let me know that he took my review seriously and has made changes with his business as a result.
Since dove release is not a frequently needed service, I don’t have an opportunity to consider giving Bay Area Doves another shot, and therefore don’t think it’s appropriate to remove or change my rating.
Yet I do think his email warranted an honorable mention, and I appreciate that Jimmy and Bay Area Doves take pride in their customer service and that constructive action resulted from my review.

Great Service — Good Price — Very Professional
We recently used Bay Area Doves at a memorial service at Oakhill Cemetery in San Jose. We found them to be very professional and easy to work with. Being able to reserve our dove release online was great as it allowed us to reserve the doves late in the evening when we did a lot of the planning for the memorial service. It also allowed us to pay by credit card where as other companies we found wanted cash or required you to have a Pay Pal account. We did contact them several times after we had reserved the doves online and they were very prompt getting back to us when we left a voicemail. They also assured us that the doves were trained to fly home after they were released, which made us feel at ease.
On the day of the service, they arrived early to ensure they were there before we got there, they had included poems for us to read and the baskets they used to release the doves were cute heart shaped baskets. They even offered for us to hand-​release some of the doves, but we chose not to. The release coordinator was very patient with our longer than expected service and stayed until the dove release was done. The staff at Oakhill Cemetery was very familiar with Bay Area Doves and they came highly recommended by them.
Pricing was decent… and compared to other services, like the flowers, was actually in the cheaper side. People still talk about the beauty of the dove release and how much it lifted people’s spirits up during the service and there’s a lot to be said about that.