Dantus & Co. Events

Courtney Rose (CR), to finalize the design and contact vendors. About 2 months from our wedding, we were referred to a planner (first Victoria, then Becca) who acts as more of a day-of coordinator. Since these planners weren’t working with us from the outset, they didn’t have the context for our wedding which made the experience more difficult. For instance, on our first call with Victoria, we mentioned that we were having draping installed. Victoria had never seen or heard of this which was odd, considering Dantus & Co had supervised the process of ordering it. To assure her that this was done, I had to find the invoice that she already had access to and point to the line that said “Wall drape.” Things like this happened repeatedly until I called CR and asked to switch to a different planner. We were reassigned to Becca, which didn’t resolve the issue at all. Soon after, CR left us a message telling us that she was charging an additional $850 to achieve the wedding design they had proposed. I called her immediately—why did we need to pay extra for this? “Some parts of the design vision need extra labor” Her team had proposed the design vision. Why didn’t they tell me about this sooner? “That was the design stage, this is the planning stage” By this point we were less than 2 months away from the wedding. CR assured me that there was no other option and, rather than frantically trying to find a coordinator, we decided to just bite the bullet and accept the charge. Things didn’t improve. Becca habitually made changes to the wedding plan without our input. She changed the dinner style without asking, reassigned florals to places they weren’t supposed to be, deprioritized our keepsakes, opted against ordering chair cushions we wanted, and refused to use flameless candles CR directed us to order. Once, she changed a rental order without regard for the impact on our budget, assuring us that if it costed more, it would only be a ‘nominal amount.’ This isn’t even an exhaustive list of everything she changed without consulting us—just enough to illustrate the point. Each time, I was only able to mitigate the issue by repeatedly asking about all the details, which was exhausting. She also wasn’t very detail oriented. Both her final timeline and design mockup had errors. Her email to the wedding party had typos—my FIL had to correct them. My family cringed when she said that the 7 blessings would be read in “Jewish.” For some reason, she told all the bridesmaids to meet at 6 AM sharp, despite the first appointment not starting until 6:45. Becca was better on the wedding day—it was clear she was experienced—but there were still issues. She started directing the photographer to take photos we didn’t want until I asked the photographer to take over. I received several comments from family and friends about how she was rude to them or made them uncomfortable. She made me uncomfortable too—she insisted on helping me use the bathroom despite my repeated attempts to tell her I could go on my own and had already done so. That said, all the assistants working with her were phenomenal. Ultimately working with Dantus and Co just made the process of planning my wedding more uncomfortable, anxiety inducing, and upsetting. For the price, you can get better service elsewhere.