Reviews of DPNAK Weddings (Event Planner)

Taylor Foundas

Working with DPNAK was the best decision we made during the wedding planning process. Our wedding was at Hotel Bethlehem in Bethlehem PA while we lived in and planned from Boston MA. Danielle started as a complete stranger, proved herself to be a rock star wedding planner and in the end helped us achieve our "perfect wedding day" and became a dear friend. She is the most organized, well thought out person I know! She kept us on time, on track and focused from the day we hired her until we woke up the morning after our wedding! She perfectly executed every single dream we had for our day! My husband and I got to just enjoy our wedding!! I showed, up got married and had the best day of my life without a care in the world! Danielle and her amazing team took care of the stress and worry!! If I would have changed one thing, I would have hired her sooner in the process!! Besides handling the entire day beautiful she also hemmed my dress during cocktail hour and absolutely saved the day (along with a million other small miracles)! I cannot rave about her enough!! Nor could we ever thank her enough!! She seriously does not charge enough for the amazing services she provides! We would hire her again in a heartbeat!! We <3 DPNAK

Vivian Byrwa

Words cannot do justice to how amazing Danielle is! I found her via her Put a Ring On It Podcast. After listening to her show and learning her approach to weddings, I realized no local coordinator I interviewed even came close to matching her energy, expertise and passion. Luckily, she was willing to travel to NYC! Hiring her was the best decision I made! Her lists and questionnaires enabled me to download my entire wedding vision into her brain. In the last month leading up to the wedding, she knew more about my wedding than I did. At some point, I kind of forgot I was planning a wedding because Danielle was running things for me. Her bubbly personality and everlasting positivity made her such a joy to work with! She was always super responsive (responding to emails/text within minutes!) and made me feel like I was her only client. As brides and grooms, we spend so much time and money hiring our dream wedding professionals, but the most important one is the coordinator. We need a true leader to run the dream team, and Danielle is truly the best wedding professional anyone can have! Call her now!

Lauren Smith

Words cannot express how thankful we are to Danielle and the DPNAK team for making our wedding the most perfect day of our lives! After my husband (I love saying that!) and I set our date and decided to throw a tent wedding in his grandmother’s field we knew that planning this event would be intense- we also knew we needed someone to be able to manage the day so we didn’t have to. With a little help from google, we found Danielle! After our first meeting on Skype, we looked at each other and said simultaneously, “She was AWESOME!” Danielle stayed that way throughout our entire planning process. She helped up to think of things that we would have never thought of ourselves. She also helped us to find other vendors that would help create the atmosphere we were looking for. Once we booked those vendors she kept in constant contact with them to make sure the day went smoothly! Her attention to detail and organized timelines were just what we needed to keep everyone in the loop and where they needed to be. We also knew that Danielle would give us honest advice when we asked. She helped us to make the wedding of our dreams come true and we felt like we made a friend along the way! Our families can’t stop talking about how great she was to work with and how impressed they were with Danielle and her team! If you are thinking about hiring Danielle to help you plan your wedding, stop thinking and book her! She was worth every penny and then some! I used to say “I don’t know how anyone planned a wedding without Pinterest” but now I say, “I don’t know how anyone planned a wedding without Danielle!” A thousand thank yous aren’t enough!

Amy Hajjar

Key Takeaway: Everyone deserves to have a Danielle in their life and at their wedding!! I actually found out about Danielle before I got engaged when I came across her Put A Ring On It Podcast with Daniel Moyer one day on Instagram. It was great timing as my husband and I had just started discussing engagement and wedding planning. Her podcast gave us such great insight into so many topics that we felt informed and prepared to plan. We knew we had to hire her and it was honestly the best decision we made during the planning process. Danielle was amazing from the very first Skype call to the secure hand off of the card box to my parents. She is so knowledgable, professional and warm and you just want to be around her. We signed on for Day of Coordination services because of our budget constraints and she was worth EVERY PENNY. Even though I am super type A and felt very organized, she still blew us away the minute our services started with 2 months to go. All of our stress literally melted away. Her "worksheets" helped us centralize all our vendor information and make sure all the items big and small were addressed. She had this magical way of literally sniffing out all the to dos I kept putting off / avoiding and helped me work through them effortlessly. Not only does Danielle work well on her own, she easily integrated into the rest of our dream team, even vendors she had never met before. Having Danielle on hand for our final venue walk through was incredible and you could just tell she was in her element and thriving. It was fun to watch! Our wedding day was truly the best day of our lives because we got to live in the moment and be showered with love without a care in the world. Danielle and her team were just incredible. They all made us feel so special while also making the impossible seem easy like untangling our just married sign in a wind storm or reading my mind for last minute decor decisions. We would choose to hire Danielle over and over again.

Megan Brady Ruseskas

Selecting DPNAK to plan their wedding is, in my experienced opinion, the best choice a couple can make to ensure their event's success. Months in advance we were set as ease knowing that all of our vendors came from DPNAK's "recommended" list. We were confident our florist, DJ, caterer, etc. would fulfill their end of the contract in order to receive the coveted DPNAK blessing. Danielle personally goes far beyond any expectations the day of the wedding, managing the timeline, guests, wedding party, transportation, and vendors with superhuman efficiency. Danielle has the ability to move mountains with a feather's touch, and handles all the aspects the day of the event with that poise. She asks questions we did not think to consider, provides back-ups plan when the inevitable bad weather occurs, and hires an invisible but super effective team to help with all wedding day aspects. Her planning and triple-checking leading up to the wedding makes her invaluable, while her stewardship of the rehearsal process helps everyone to understand their role without stepping on anyone's toes or egos. Danielle's experience, positive energy, and knowledge not only guaranteed our wedding's success, but did so with the very little personal stress on our part. Danielle was also very personal, approachable, and available during our year long engagement. We did not hesitate to ask her any questions, regardless of their minuteness or ill-timeliness, as that was the tone she set. She always responded promptly, and in such a way to soothe potential concerns. She maintained that helpful but driven, knowledgeable yet fun-loving demeanor throughout the 14 months we worked with her and particularly during wedding week. It was clear to both of us that the DPNAK team wanted nothing more than our wedding to be the day we dreamed it could be. Hiring her was the smartest move I made planning the wedding, and I will share that with anyone planning a wedding!

Jennie Fagen Malloy

Danielle is amazing and everything you could hope for in a wedding coordinator/planner. Proactive, organized, detail-oriented, creative, and an all-around lovely person. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND working with her ASAP. We hired her with a little more than 3 months before the big day, and boy do I wish we had hired Danielle sooner! Danielle was actively involved with us all the way up to the day. She helped us find some awesome vendors, gave suggestions when we asked, answered emails very promptly, and started creating a detailed timeline 3 months before the actual day! From our first call, we knew we wanted to work with her because of her professionalism and enthusiasm. The day of, Danielle helped everything run smoothly. All of the vendors loved her and my bridal party and family were so impressed by her. She's worth every penny! <3

Catherine Grier

Hiring Danielle and her team (and hiring her early on in the planning process) was *hands down* the best decision we made in the wedding planning process. We got the "signature coordination" package, which meant that Danielle provided guidance, vendor recommendations, checklists, and basically anything under the sun we asked her throughout the planning process (we hired her almost a year out). She is organized, phenomenal to work with, and our wedding went off pretty much perfectly-- at least, as far as we are aware. She and her team were behind the scenes making sure everything was perfect: fixing broken photo booth printers, pinning up my broken bustle, and probably tons of other things I don't even know about. Danielle knew every little detail about how the wedding was supposed to go and made sure it happened. She is fun, upbeat, the most organized and detail-oriented person ever, and an absolute pleasure to talk to and work with. All of the vendors she recommended were wonderful as well, and some of them even gave us a discount as her client. She helped keep the vendors on top of things (some of the ones we had hired that were not on her recommended list were a bit slow sometimes to get moving and she was super helpful poking them and keeping them on task). Also, all the vendors got excited to work with us when they found out she was our coordinator and gushed about how awesome she is (which we absolutely agree with). Danielle also kept me organized with her monthly to-do lists, which were super detailed and helpful, which helped keep the stress lower during the weeks right before the wedding because we had gotten so much done ahead of time before things got hectic---thanks to her guidance. Basically, I cannot recommend her and her team enough. Also, I wish I lived closer to her so we could hang out now that the wedding is over.

Marian Wurzel

I HIGHLY recommend Danielle as a wedding planner. While my mom and I are both organized women, we were no match for my wedding two weeks ago. We hired Danielle quickly after getting engaged and immediately, she was an amazing resource. We weren't even considering hiring a wedding planner until 5 family friends told us, "you have to hire Danielle!" With that kind of referral base, you know she's something special. From referring vendors, to keeping us on track with monthly "to-dos", I went into my wedding completely calm and confident. Even after my brother broke my bustle, Danielle was right there with a safety pin ready to get me back on the dance floor. After 10 years in the business, you can trust her to anticipate any little hiccup. From planning to execution, she's the best!

Jennifer Doncsecz

Danielle is a JOY to work with!!!

Jessica Smith

Danielle was an absolute game changer for us. The decision to hire her was the best planning decision I made. In the months leading up to the wedding, Danielle kept me on task and was always there for me to run a recommendation by or help with selecting/managing vendors. All of the vendors that had worked with Danielle before were very happy to be working with her again which made me feel like the wedding was in good hands. Working with Danielle was easy and fun. I appreciated her being open to my working style involving hashtags, emojis and applicable .gifs. Danielle’s extensive experience helped me to bring out the absolute best in the vision that I had for my unique and personalized wedding day. i.e. She knew where the pit falls were and how to make my creative ideas work and work well. The weekend of the wedding I felt no stress at all. Danielle was there to execute all of the small details that I had thought up for months. I was just along for the ride. She worked so well with the guests and the other vendors. After the rehearsal she gave the whole wedding party adorable pocket timelines so they knew where to be and when the next day. The morning of the wedding, Danielle coordinated the setup of the venue – which involved 15+ different vendors, friends and family involved in putting together the reception. At one point, I saw Danielle on the phone with the trolley company coordinating some last minute changes that were needed due to unforeseen circumstances. Danielle handled it beautifully so that no one was inconvenienced or waiting around. I kept thinking to myself – thank goodness they are not calling me or my family right now. Danielle was the master of the schedule and everyone knew to go to her with questions or information. For Tim and I, our wedding was the best day of our lives because we were able to spend every second of it celebrating with the people we love and not worrying about logistics.

Tim Perfetto

The Resurrection was to die for