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Elena B.
Elena B.
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1 year 1 month ago

My husband and I used Ankit for our two-day destination wedding in December 2019 and were sadly disappointed. What started out as a blank canvas where ‘anything is possible’ quickly turned into a series of limited options and compromises. The execution itself lacked attention to detail and logistical care, and the team was nowhere to be found when we needed them. Ankit and his team are great at implementing traditional Indian wedding ideas; not so great at understanding the individual and foreign needs that a destination wedding requires.

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Hello Elena & Prathmesh, hope you are doing great and keeping safe in Covid times. Thanks for your feedback and we feel disappointed as well that despite of months of "being fully flexible, going out of way and saying yes to everything, deviating from the process we follow in planning any wedding to adapt to your style etc" we could not please your expectations. We have been very frequently working with overseas couple who intend to pull together a "true destination wedding" for 16 years now and we are confident that not only these cross cultural wedding for overseas couples but also occasional traditional weddings is are core area of expertise. Our website has tons of such weddings and super positive reviews posted. We were delighted to have received email immediately after your wedding from the Groom Prathmesh who definitely praised so many aspects of our planning and management and also mentioned how so many guests "appreciated" for an amazing wedding they experienced. He also pointed out few areas where we could improve upon but all thanks to his positive feedback. We appreciate your follow up feedback and we assure you that every wedding leaves us with some new learning experiences that we take seriously. Without going into much details and just as a part of message to other potential brides who may be reading this in future, here are three important learnings from your and Prathmesh's wedding. 1. Never say "yes" to creating scenarios for example A. "All the kids shall be taken away to another space during wedding ceremony using a baby seater, even the toddlers". We did intimate you about it but we should have rather said no to you outrightly specially when there were Indian families also involved who would never agree to keep kids away. We could not stop your guests walking out of ceremony just because we insisted them that we take their kids away during ceremony) B. Guarantee that "No one shall walk the aisle before bride walk in and no one would stand up from seat during the ceremony". Sorry but despite of multiple efforts to keep some uncles away from walking on the aisle, they kept insisting that last minute we want Groom to walk on it before bride walks in. This lead to an unpleasant situation for us also and finally we had to back out when we faced the anger from uncles. 2. Creativity is one aspect why couples rely on wedding planners, working with you we had our hands completely tied and we were asked ONLY to follow and re-create from the presentation. We did our best to source in and document "actual pictures" of all the hundreds elements you asked which is never a case any wedding planing company would do. We did try to communicate you our reservations to you for such process but you did not show much flexibility leading us to keep our creative (and experienced) skills limited to only what's in documents. We regret, we should have been more upright to you mentioning that we do need our creative freedom. Again, email from Prathmesh did appreciate how closely we followed all your creative ideas and documents and we were timely. This we believe is one important success criteria. 3. Us as a Wedding Planner must be more practical to "possible" and "not possible" ideas coming from the couples. Sometimes, in pursuit to achieve the all possible satisfaction we do go overboard and commit to ideas which we know are really really dependent upon circumstances be it weather, how guests follow timing, how families behave personally with each other etc. In future we shall be much more cautious. No matter how much planning efforts you put into a wedding, after all its a social event and NOT a corporate event which could be produced as clock work. We shall be more precise in future telling our clients that there are so many factors in a wedding scenario which are out of control and sometimes thats what brings in more fun as well :) Thanks again for your feedback, we wish you both a very happy married life again.