Dettagli Weddings Review

If we could give Katie and the whole Dettagli team 10 out of 5 starts, we would.  If you're recently engaged, congratulations!  Now go call Katie before she's booked.

Without question, the money we spent on Katie's services was the best, best, best decision we made through the whole process, bar none.  We went with the "Franc"/full service/soup-to-nuts package and it was a dream.  For the year of planning, Katie was an utter joy to work with, responsive, responsible, fun, and immediately "got" my vision for our big day and made it a reality.  Seamlessly, perfectly.  She knows everyone, every vendor, everything, and never says, "can't," "won't", or "no."  If you have a dream that's out of budget, she'll come at you with 10 alternatives to make you happy.  She NEVER pushes.  Never upsells.  Never pushes a certain vendor, etc.  At the same time, the vendors she recommended were all simply amazing and we loved each and every one of them (Fleur for flowers - omg, amazing.  Sarah's cake (Oak Street), Pen/Carlson photography, Entourage - the best bad in the history of wedding bands - truly, the night was perfect).

Everyone warns, "well, just expect that something will go wrong, because it always does and you just can't sweat the small stuff."  NO.  Nothing.  Everything was perfect.  Or, correction - as far as you and your groom will know, everything will have been perfect.  Katie is a MASTER of emergency fixes behind the scenes.  We had a groomsman's tie not fit.  No problem!  Bloomies is next door!  Katie to the rescue - groomsman tied up in no time.  The cocktail hour musician's keyboard didn't work on the scene - no problem!  Katie had another one within the 15 minutes she had before the ceremony was over (and I was none the wiser until the next day when we were catching up).  Katie has had caterers get whole wedding cakes squished in elevator doors (not kidding), and still managed to have perfectly re-done cake in time for the bride and groom without skipping a beat.

She is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.  For our wedding and the full-service package, Dettagli was about 10% of our budget.  Sound insane?  Not a bit.  We're both busy professionals, bought a house this year, moved, went back to grad school part-time - I could never, ever, ever have done it all without Katie.  I was also amazed by all this included.  Of course I expected help with vendors and full weekend-of support.  But my goodness we got so much more: assembling favors, making 135 ridiculous ribbon tie-things that I became obsessed with and decided had to bundle everyone's napkin, hotel bags stuffed and delivered to each hotel, gifts wrapped and delivered to bridesmaids, gromsmen, readers - Katie, Katie, Katie.  I'm a total Martha-Stewart wannabe and *perfectionist* on this stuff.  It's incredibly hard for me to give up control of these details and for others to live up to my nutty expectations.  Katie exceeded them every time and so, before you knew it, I trusted her with everything and she was able to be all the bigger help because of it.  I cannot recommend her or her team strongly enough and can't imagine any bride ever regretting the decision to hire her.  Enjoy your dream day and treat yourself to Katie making it a fun, amazing, and stress-free event!

Chicago, IL 60614

(773) 698-8715