Danzante Events -

Karly Behncke

Although this is long overdue, Rebecca and her team deserve the praises for their hard work and dedication for their clients. I found Danzante Events while looking up day-of coordinators on the various wedding apps/websites, and she seemed to check most if not all of our boxes. Mostly, we were looking for someone that had experience local to Santa Cruz and had some experience with our wedding venue (Waterfall Lodge) and lucky for us, Rebecca caught our attention. Plus, she had all the right contacts to build a vendor team that were able to bring our wedding dreams to reality.

From the very first consultation, she made us feel at ease with her expertise and attention to detail as we spoke about our wedding vision. She took the time to truly understand us, our needs and helped ensure our day was nothing less than magical. Her insights, organization, and calm demeanor kept everything running smoothly on the big day, even when a few unexpected challenges popped up, or should I say poured down, as we experienced some rain day of. From keeping the timeline on track to ensuring that every detail was perfect despite the weather, she kept us happy and confident throughout the day. Who else would stand out in the pouring rain, makeup running down her face, to help direct our guests and shuttle buses to ensure everyone was safe and accounted for.

Thanks to her and her team, we were able to enjoy every moment of our wedding without a worry in the world. Our wedding was everything we dreamed of, rain or shine. If you're looking for someone who can handle any situation with grace and professionalism, we highly recommend Danzante Events.

Enrica Beltran

Are you looking for someone who has the skillset and expertise to pull off your dream wedding? Who’ll happily answer all your questions, big & small? Make decisions for you when you are being indecisive & struggling to commit? That’ll take the time to listen to all your nuptial dreams & wishes and make it into reality? All while trying to convince you to stay within your budget?

Well look no further, you’ve found her! Hiring Rebecca was the absolute best choice I made in regards to my wedding!

Every step of the way, Rebecca was ready to do whatever was needed in order to make sure that our wedding day was perfect—from consistently following up with a not-very-responsive local farm that we insisted we wanted our wedding cake from to chasing the management of our favorite restaurant for their cocktail recipe for our signature drinks, and much more!

She designed & executed a beautiful wedding for us(at a venue she was working with for the first time!) and I’m still amazed at how she made our vision come to life! She is extremely organized, has a huge heart and will do everything in her power to ensure your special day goes perfectly. I was amazed when my wedding week came and I was perfectly at ease—because I knew Rebecca was going to pull it all together, I could spend my time focusing on my fiancé & family, my final errands, and practicing my first dance with my soon-to-be husband.

Before I hired Rebecca I was convinced that I could handle doing the majority of the planning for our wedding, but at the end of the day hiring a full service wedding planner & designer as great as Rebecca was worth every penny (and then some) to make the process as enjoyable & stress-free as possible.

A few more things I am super appreciative for:
- After we had settled on a vendor & order for our rentals, Rebecca managed to find another rental vendor who had more affordable lounge furniture & additional decor that really took our wedding to the next level from a design perspective. We ended up getting more for less money!
- Went above and beyond in making sure that our wedding cake turned out the way I wanted when our vendor was not able to do the final touches onsite.
- Recommended great vendors who were trusted and contributed make our wedding weekend perfect. At the same time—she did not at all push us towards her recommended vendors
- Always asked if there was anything she could help us with and even got involved when some last minute family drama came up during our wedding weekend.
- When I wasn’t happy with the initial floral vendors we met with and was planning on settling on the best choice from a budget perspective instead of continuing looking—she insisted that we should keep on looking until I found a vendor I loved (at the end of the day, I am SO happy about this—our florals were amazing and we received so many compliments on them).
- When our plan for chargers fell through, she drove over the hill and into SF to pick up chargers from a different vendor who had the exact ones we needed to match the overall wedding asthetic.
- Coordinated not only our wedding, but our rehearsal dinner and welcome reception as well!

I’m sure there are more things that I have missed adding to this list—but do you really need any more convincing? You won’t be able to find anyone more dedicated or experienced than Rebecca—so if you’re debating if she’s the right choice, I hope this helps you make your decision!

Last but not least, working and meeting with Rebecca felt like getting together with a friend—she always had an open ear and was happy to head about the details about our lives and progress(i.e did she really need to know about what we did on our bachelorette & bachelors’ trips or that I picked my dress & my fiancé set an appointment with a tux rental company —no—but she was happy and excited to hear the details). I’m sure that if you hire Danzante Events as your planner/designer/coordinator you won’t be disappointed, and just like myself, it will be the best vendor choice that you make!

Amanda Young

All I have to say is I wouldn't have survived wedding planning or our wedding day without Rebecca and her team. Rebecca was absolutely amazing helping me plan everything, thinking of things that I never would have thought of, helping me to deal with last-minute stressors, and managing our day perfectly. So many people came up to me to tell me how awesome our wedding planner was, and how well-run everything was at our wedding. We are SO appreciative. She knows all the other vendors in the area, and had fantastic suggestions for who we used. She also knew our venue really well, so helped us iron out all the little details that needed to be figured out.

I don't think I realized how much goes into planning a wedding before I planned my own wedding, and there's no way we could have done it without Rebecca! I was really stressed before our wedding with all of the last minute prep, and Rebecca knew exactly what needed to happen and helped me feel so taken care of. The day of the wedding I literally didn't worry about anything because her team was so on top of it, we had a perfect magical day!

Kendall Pawlowski

My wife and I met Rebecca in a completely serendipitous fashion, while touring one of our venue options. After chatting briefly and exchanging info, we knew pretty immediately that she was a genuinely easygoing planner who had tons of experience to offer, particularly for the Santa Cruz area.

Rebecca took our small pile of ideas and turned it into a real wedding vision after just our first meeting. She was chock full of seasoned advice for us, a couple that was excited but very out of our league.

The planning process was very organized, Rebecca is a master of the tools of her trade like google sheets and Canva. She kept us up to date on what we should be locking in next, from vendors to dresses to rehearsal dinner reservations.

All of Rebecca's vendor recommendations were amazing and professional: she keeps a tight network of folks she's worked with before and they all have nothing but good things to say about her as well.

She knew how to strike the perfect balance of maintaining our original vision but also offer suggestions the whole way through, to spark our imagination.

Once the big day was imminent, she stayed in very close communication with us, inventorying and checking everything to make sure that it was all set and we wouldn’t have to worry about any of it during the event.

At rehearsal, she laid down the law with our rowdy wedding party and got us through everything in a clear and efficient manner.

During the wedding itself, Rebecca moved fluidly all throughout the venue and adapted to the small issues that sometimes happen on wedding days with no issue. Our family and guests didn’t need to worry about any of the set up logistics, her and her crew were quick and agile placing and putting away all our decorations.

All in all, Rebecca is a great planner and a great person. She is everything you want in a planner, our day would not have been nearly as perfect without her excellent help. Thank you Rebecca.

Rosalie Lawrence

Wow, we just can't believe how wonderful our wedding turned out, and we really could not have done it without Danzante Events! We came to Danzante with an ambitious plan of throwing a big party for our large family and group of friends (200 people!), and with very little ideas or experience of how to pull of something like that. Rebecca was absolutely incredible in helping us to find solutions to make the party happen and even stay within budget--from creative solutions like hiring event staff separately from our BBQ caterer to make sure everything happened seemlessly, to very practical suggestions for how to lay out our tables to fit 200 people inside of UCSC's Hay Barn! She heard our very vague thoughts on decor and provided specific and actionable design choice suggestions that looked just absolutely incredible when everythign was all put together.

Rebecca is incredibly thoughtful and dedicated and we felt really provided us with suggestions that were specific to us as a couple. She is creative and adventurous and has a can-do attitude. We felt we really were able to pull together somethign unique that represented us, while at the same time benefitting from being connected to vendors that Rebecca knew and worked very seamlessly together in our venue.

Sarah Cunningham

We hired Danzante Events as our day of coordinators for our wedding at Waterfall Lodge, and they made magic happen all around us for the most important day of our lives! Despite being "day of," they did their best to provide us with planning tools and advice ahead of the event so that we could benefit from their familiarity with the venue and local connections, and they were also so supportive of all of our ambitious DIY plans. But Kelsa, Mandy, and Julie really took the wheel when the day came and made sure we could float through the event with no stress or worry. We handed them homemade decor and flowers and trusted them to create the vision we had talked about, and they nailed it! They made clean up and pack out easy for us when logistics were the last things on our mind as the evening came to a close. I'll admit that I was skeptical about needing a coordinator when we first started the planning process, and at first I was worried that it would feel like too many cooks in the kitchen. If you're a type A couple, it does take a little extra work to keep your tools coordinated with the coordinator's tools so everyone is on the same page! But, it all pays off when the day comes -- There's no way we could have created as seamless an experience for our guests, and definitely not for ourselves, without the Danzante team moving mountains in the background. Worth every minute and every penny! 🙂

Olivia Melikhov

Rebecca was incredible to work with! After our initial wedding got canceled due to Covid, we reached out to Rebecca to help plan a micro wedding closer to our home in the Bay Area. The entire process was seamless, and we felt so at ease and taken care of. In the midst of planning, the CA wildfires broke out and we worried we'd have to cancel the wedding again. Rebecca was such a calming presence and everything came together beautifully, despite the challenges.

Also worth mentioning is Rebecca's eye for design and aesthetic - we had a very specific vision and she brought it to life in the most perfect way, better than I could have even imagined. So grateful to her and her team for making our wedding the most perfect, magical day!

Bryan

The best decision we made when planning our wedding, hands down, was to work with Rebecca and her team at Danzante Events. Without her, our wedding day wouldn’t have been the magical and whimsical day it was. She set us up with the tools we needed to make our day unforgettable, including an incredible list of vendors that she consistently works with. Everyone she helped us get in touch with was fantastic, and we were able to find the perfect match for the vibes we wanted while staying within our budget.

Leading up to our wedding, she was invaluable as we curated the design and atmosphere for our wedding. She took the time to get to know us and, through that, was able to help us put into words the aesthetic we wanted for our day. This made our conversations with our vendors easy and ensured we received precisely what we wanted for our special day.

In the final week before our wedding, the forecast turned to rain. With Rebecca’s help, we were able to quickly pivot and turn an outdoor wedding into a partially outdoor and tented event without breaking our budget. I can’t imagine having to accomplish this alone without her expertise and guidance.

And on our wedding day, it rained all day, never stopping. But the rain couldn’t compete with Rebecca. She and her team handled it all for us so that we could enjoy our time with our friends, family, and especially each other.

We cannot recommend Danzante Events enough. Rebeccas is personable and professional, and we are delighted to have worked with her for our wedding. She goes above and beyond five-star service, and we are so grateful to her and the amazing day she made for us.