
From Wedding Planner, Danielle Pasternak
Wedding planning tips, resources, and inspiration


Wedding Budget: Why the Guest List is “EVERYTHING”
Just about anywhere you look, when it comes to planning your wedding budget, every one will tell you that your guest list is EVERYTHING. While it certainly doesn’t affect every single aspect of your wedding, it does play a major role in your bottom line.


Top Tips for Giving a Wedding Toast from Wedding Pros
Giving a toast can be an honor, but absolutely terrifying. These wedding toast tips from fellow pros are a great starting point.

Dealing with Parents and Wedding Planning
Today, I want to talk about something a little different. Something that’s a hard thing to talk about. But something that I see most of my clients work through in some capacity: Parents.


NEPA Wedding Planner Review: From Bethany and Sean’s Fiddle Lake Farm Wedding
Bethany and Sean’s Fiddle Lake Farm Wedding was full of nothing but love, friends and family members. Oh, and some AH-MAZING food. The DPNAK team had the utmost pleasure being part of their day last August and we are so honored/thrilled/ecstatic/humbled to share their kind words.

Wedding RSVPs: Three Ways To Ensure A Quick Response From Your Guests
We know how exciting it is to plan a wedding. And we know the rush you get when you officially send out your invitations. And then we also know the utter frustration you feel when some people JUST. DON’T. RSVP.

Four Tips for Busy Brides
Let’s face it. We don’t really know any brides that aren’t “busy brides”, but alliteration is fun. And we love talking about ways to make the whole wedding planning process a lot more fun, simple, easy to navigate and memorable (but in a good way).
What makes a DPNAK client?
We love sharing all kinds of tips, ideas, and bits of inspiration on this here blog. But today, we want to talk about us. Well, actually, no that’s a lie – we want to talk about you. And we want to talk about what makes a DPNAK client, because our wedding coordination services don’t fit everyone, but they fit specific someones perfectly.


Dear Client: You are NEVER bothering us (An open letter to our current and future clients)
Earlier this week, we were checking in with one of our couple’s getting married in just three short months (October!!). They’ve been uncharacteristically quiet the past few months and we understand that sometimes life takes over and wedding tasks tend to hit the back burner.


4 Wedding Photography Myths: Debunked
Between forums, message boards, Facebook, Twitter, and so-on there are SO many wedding planning myths floating around out there on the interwebs and while we’d love to sit and argue with folks on these platforms (uhm, no – we would absolutely never do that) we felt it would be best to put together a little list of wedding planning myths.



DPNAK Weddings has moved plus another exciting announcement
We are completely honored to have been voted as the Lehigh Valley’s Best Wedding Planner 2015 Happening List. We are eager and excited to work in the Scranton and Poconos areas for weddings, but will now be more central to the Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania markets.

Creative Spotlight: Tree of Life Films and Photography
Meet Jennifer and Tom, of Tree of Life Films. They’re a husband and wife, photography and videography team based in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA.