ABOUT US

About Us

Let Us Bring Your Unique Love Story to Life

HauteFêtes is a bespoke full-service event design and planning studio, specializing in luxury destination weddings and multi-day celebrations in the US and around the globe. From concept to execution, we streamline the wedding design and planning process, helping you find the perfect venue and event partners to incorporating the meaningful final touches that create the wedding you’ve always dreamed of. Partnering with boutique hotels, luxury resorts, and other exquisite venues, each of our events reflects our signature European sensibility. Our singular focus on fine quality, good manners, and personal details ensures our couples and their guests enjoy every moment of the wedding experience and remember it for years to come.

Working with a smaller clientele, we pride ourselves on our collaborative approach and start the design process from scratch by understanding your unique love story. We work closely with our team of trusted and highly sought-after partners around the globe bringing celebrations to life and producing memories for you and your loved ones to cherish for a lifetime. With over 20 years of event-planning experience, we can’t wait to connect and learn more about you and the vision for your wedding.

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What
Inspires

Us

At HauteFêtes, we draw from our own heritage finding inspiration in the effortless elegance and timelessness of European tradition and our own love of fine art, good food, global travel and the natural world. We embrace the antique and imperfect, soft natural light, textured linens, subtle color palettes, the fragrance of orange blossom, lavender and rose, and we love the warmth and intimacy of entertaining family and friends. Working with the finest event partners and always collaborating with our couples who share a common appreciation for such authentic and timeworn details, we deliver exquisite, hopelessly romantic and joy-filled events which feel original, organic and timeless.

Meet Dani

HauteFêtes was founded by Dani Blasena, owner, creative director and lead designer, who is widely respected for her unparalleled eye for design and comprehensive planning skills. The daughter of a diplomat and an artist, Dani grew up in an international world of politics, entertaining and design. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Languages and a Master’s Degree in Public Relations, Dani got her professional start in the fast-paced environment of technology marketing and communications when she moved to the U.S. from London two decades ago. Craving a more creative outlet after designing her own wedding, she made the decision to step out of the executive track into a more fulfilling creative role. Combining her Fortune 500-honed planning and management background with her infectious enthusiasm and timeless style, today, Dani lives her dream creating romantic, elegant and sophisticated fêtes that are each infused with her individual brand of client dedication and signature European take on event design.

Our Team

Carlotta Romita

Sr. Events Production Manager

Philippa Brenninkmeyer

Events Manager

Presli Marquez

EVENTS COORDINATOR

Carlotta Romita

Sr. Events Production Manager

Originally from Rome, Italy, Carlotta has been using her deep production and logistics management skill set to bring international and multi-million dollar events to fruition for the last 20 years. Previously, Carlotta lived in Miami, heading up the planning and production for major fashion shoots, advertising campaigns and TV commercials before relocating across country and finding her home at HauteFêtes. In addition to being our European liaison for international events, she’s the reason guests catch the right shuttle, generators have enough fuel, vendors load in and out as scheduled, fire marshals have signed off on tent inspections, and that final sparkler farewell is just as memorable as the initial guest champagne greet. When not busy getting everyone logistically situated, she can be found in or by the Ocean.

Philippa Brenninkmeyer

Events Manager

Philippa (or Pippa as we love to call her) puts her background in Fashion and Design to use when she works with clients on their wedding design and planning. Highly organized and detail-oriented, Pippa has a flair for entertaining and a passion for style and design that comes from previously designing her own swimsuit line, as well as her travels around the world. She loves collaborating with brides to find the perfect wedding venue and right vendors to bring their wedding ‘vision’ to life. When she’s not coordinating with bands and videographers, you’ll find her spell-checking contracts and creating detailed timelines. Adding to our European team roster, Pippa is originally from Germany, although she was born in the US and graduated from Richmond University in London. Pippa now lives in Rancho Santa Fe with her two pups, Little and Frankie. In her spare time, you’ll find her soaking up the sun at the beach and wandering around town trying to find hip new shops and restaurants.

Presli Marquez

Events Coordinator

Born and raised a California girl, Presli brings to HauteFêtes a deep background in events, design and travel with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations and Tourism and prior experience working at the largest luxury media company nationwide, Modern Luxury… vital skills when coordinating our couples’ wedding weekends. With over 80 large-scale events under her belt, Presli is passionate about storytelling the details. She’s also constantly checking and rechecking calendars, exploring ways to streamline planning for our clients, and with her technical savvy and design know-how is the mind behind many of our most creative customer relationship and operational touches. When she’s not gushing over how beautiful our brides’ wedding dresses are, you can find her honing her passion for arts and culture of the San Diego and Baja California region.

ABOUT US

Let Us Bring Your Unique Love Story to Life

WhatInspires

Meet Dani

Our Team

Carlotta Romita

Philippa Brenninkmeyer

Presli Marquez

Carlotta Romita

Philippa Brenninkmeyer

Presli Marquez

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