Thursday, July 18, 2019 (12:15 pm)

We know you’re taking selfies. We see you with the clowns and in front of the rides, taking selfies with friends and loved ones. And we want you to win something for them!

From now through July 28, we’re hosting an OC Fair Selfie Scavenger Hunt! Below are zoomed-in photos of 10 different selfie spots throughout the fairgrounds. Find the spot, snap a selfie, and upload the image at contest.app.do/selfie-2615393. You get one entry per image – so if you find all 10, that’s 10 chances!

Now the prize: On July 29, we’ll randomly pick three winners to come on back to the OC Fair for its final week of the summer – on us! Each winner will get 4 tickets, 2 ride vouchers (good for 3 rides each!) and $20 in food vouchers. 

Let’s see those smiling selfies!! Enter on Facebook!

Friday, July 12, 2019 (1:30 pm)

Titan, the largest traveling booster ride in the U.S., made its California debut on Opening Day of the 2019 OC Fair. CEO Kathy Kramer helped celebrate the ride’s opening with a ribbon-cutting and 32 lucky fairgoers won the chance to be the first riders. 

Titan rockets riders 17 stories into the air experiencing 4G acceleration and speeds of up to 60 mph, making it the most spectacular ride in the carnival. Now, the tallest ride in the Fair, it is 30 feet taller than La Grande Wheel XL, and it weighs 280,000 pounds.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 (2:48 pm)

Love is in the Fair! We know that couples love the OC Fair. It’s an amazing date-night destination, the best spot for a memorable first kiss and a magical place to get engaged.

We want to give one couple that loves the OC Fair almost as much as they love each other, a one-of-a-kind opportunity to get married during the Fair. The wedding will take place Saturday, Aug. 10, at Millennium Barn with fairgoers, farm animals and clowns as special guests.

Imagine the story this lucky pair of OC Fair fans will have when someone asks about their wedding!

To enter the Love is in the Fair contest, couples must shoot a one-minute video showing why they are the perfect pair to get married at the OC Fair, post it on social media and tag it #ocfairwedding. We’ll announce the winners on Aug. 3 – one week before the big day.

More info is available at ocfair.com/wedding.

(11:16 am)

We want to give one couple that loves the OC Fair almost as much as they love each other, a one-of-a-kind opportunity to get married during the Fair. The wedding will take place Saturday, Aug. 10, at Millennium Barn with fairgoers, farm animals and clowns as special guests.

Imagine the story this lucky pair of OC Fair fans will have when someone asks about their wedding!

To enter the Love is in the Fair contest, couples must shoot a one-minute video showing why they are the perfect pair to get married at the OC Fair, post it on social media and tag it #ocfairwedding. We’ll announce the winners on Aug. 3 – one week before the big day.

Love is in the Fair Contest Rules:

Win a red barn wedding at the 2019 OC Fair!
1. Shoot a video of you and your love at this year’s OC Fair – 1 minute or less
2. Tell us why an OC Fair barn wedding is perfect for the two of you
3. Share your video on social media and tag it #ocfairwedding
Deadline extended: Midnight July 31
Winners announced: Aug. 3 – a week before the wedding!

What’s included:

A free half-hour wedding ceremony in the Millennium Barn at OC Fair & Event Center on Aug. 10 at 1 p.m.
Fairgoers will be your guests, but we’ll save space for 20 of your friends
A stay at Pasea oceanfront resort in Huntington Beach
A special Fair wedding cake
Stilt walkers, clowns, animals, musicians and fairgoers as your special guests
An unforgettable OC Fair experience

Details:

• Entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges looking for originality, love of the OC Fair and creativity
• No OC Fair & Event Center employees or members of their immediate family may enter
• Entries are limited to one per couple
• Participants must be age 18 or older
• Winners must be willing to share their story
• Videos must be original work, shot between July 12 and July 28, 2019, at the OC Fair in Costa Mesa, CA (see contest rules for more information)
• No date or time changes allowed – the wedding will be on Aug. 10 at 1 p.m.
More info is available at ocfair.com/wedding.

Thursday, June 27, 2019 (11:11 am)

Effective Aug. 31, OC Fair & Event Center Director Gerardo Mouet will leave his seat at the board of directors’ table.

After serving two full appointments totaling eight years on the board, Mouet says it is time to give another member of the community an opportunity to serve.

“It has been an honor to serve on the Board with you and my fellow Board Members and (I’ve been) most proud to support our efforts to protect the fairgrounds to continue being a benefit for the public,” Mouet wrote in a letter to Board Chair Robert Ruiz.

“I am also very proud to have been a part of the Board in our efforts to cheer on our wonderful staff to be professional, accountable, and to keep being guided by our mission, to celebrate interests, agriculture and heritage for all our communities in Orange County,” Mouet wrote.