Evenings of Elegance

I’ve had the extreme pleasure of having Evenings of Elegance plan and manage my day-​of coordination for my wedding at the Loeb Central Park Boathouse in NYC in August 2013. Dharmi is an extremely detail oriented planner who was always there at all hours via text message, email and phone call away to answer any of my questions and to provide me with the attention and assurance I needed to ensure everything would run smoothly and care free on the day of my wedding. My wedding day was absolutely perfect in every way and I could not have asked for anything more. She was amazing during the rehearsal the day before to get everyone in line and she’s awesome with kids and got them (ages 3 and 5) to listen and understand their roles as ring bearer and flower girl. I highly recommend her to in trust her to guide and manage one of the most important days of your life!

Dealt with Evenings of Elegance in planning my wedding (for day-​of coordination).
Wedding planners are usually hired in order to make the bride’s life less stressful; however, Evenings of Elegance only made my life more stressful!
Not a good listener, not very strong vendor relationships, and not very experienced.
She was the only one of my vendors that I had any issues with, and she was also the only vendor that was hired exclusively to provide the service of being helpful to the bride! She was very sweet at first, and gave a nice pitch, but then when it came down to providing services to her client (me), she fell short. She didn’t listen very well so vendor recs were off the mark; she kept trying to pitch me additional services, even when she wasn’t doing what she was hired for well, and I hated feeling like she was just trying to squeeze more $ out of me; and she made it clear to me that my wedding and my business were not important to her (ie by not reaching out to my venue to learn about its layout, by not providing me a sample itinerary when i asked for it, by refusing to meet before my event to go over details, etc.). Compared to the services my other friends got from their planners, Evenings of Elegance seemed more concerned with their own image than my bridal experience.
If you are looking for a wedding planner, there are a lot of them out there so I would suggest you keep looking — and don’t get caught up by the hard sell (which is the mistake that I made). If you are at all detail oriented, have hopes of hosting a classy and upscale event, and/​or are looking for a planner that will support you and make your life easier, I would recommend looking elsewhere. This planner cares more about marketing and sales than she does about following through and providing proper client service or doing the right thing for her clients. Pricing is seemingly low at first (before add’l fees are tacked on) — but I guess you get what you pay for.