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Based in Jeffersonville, Vermont, I'm Dannie McFarland, a Certified Wedding Planner and Wedding Design Consultant accredited by The Certified Wedding Planner Society, the leading certification program in the field. As the owner of Green Mountain Gatherings, I am deeply passionate about celebrating life's special moments, especially weddings. My goal is for you to fully embrace the joy of your big day, allowing you to be present and enjoy every moment as it all passes by so quickly.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the starting price for day-of wedding coordination?

$1,750

What is the starting price for partial wedding planning?

$4,500

What is the starting price for full wedding planning?

$9,600

Do you offer an hourly rate?

No

What wedding events do you provide services for?

Ceremony
Reception
Rehearsal Dinner

What wedding planning services do you offer?

Day-of Coordination
Partial Planning

What weddings do you have experience planning?

Destination
Eco-Friendly
Military
Non-Religious
Religious

Reviews of Green Mountain Gatherings

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Rachel Sent on 07/30/2024
4.8 out of 5 rating

Wonderful accommodations and transportation!

Dannie helped us organize our accommodations and our transportation for our wedding through Smugglers' Notch Resort and was wonderful! She was so kind and flexible and also did her best to make sure the transportation she was helping to provide us fit in our budget. She also made itineraries for our guests staying at the resort to ensure they knew the schedule of events for the weekend! Thank you, Dannie!
Ryann
Ryann Sent on 09/15/2026
1.2 out of 5 rating

Fraud. Do not book

Danielle RUINED our dream wedding. She forgets everything, messes up plans she creates…gives you a different answer from day to day …even moment to moment! She is aloof and incompetent. She shouldn’t be in charge Of anything except backyard BBQ’s….but I wouldn’t trust her with that! She hires her “team” who have no clue what the bride and groom want…she embarrassed me In front of my entire family on what should have been the best day of my life! I worked so hard to make every detail perfect, Danielle took it and squished it like a bug!
She has a spread sheet..don’t let it fool you! She pretends to know what’s she’s doing … SHE DOESN’T!
I had to sent her our Four song playlist multiple times. She got our mother son dance wrong … not once , not twice but THREE times at the event! When corrected she left the wedding and left us to fend for ourselves! Saying she was assaulted! What a joke.
Bride and groom sweating over three days, Up until 1 hour before our wedding start time. Oh yeah, which made us start late. But don’t worry because she didn’t even remember to contact the hotel or guests to confirm pick up time to get them to the ceremony! We had to remind her at 10am the day of! Then she made everyone arrive two hours early and sit around in the hot hot sun.
The rented golf carts to transport elderly were forgot and know where to be found. We carried a handicapped man up a hill. Where was Danielle?
She told us we would have two golf cart drivers PLUS a shuttle driver… we had one single man , running back and forth trying to transport 150 guests around a HUGE estate in Stowe Vermont. Everything she told us was a lie.
She did rent herself a golf cart on our dime so she could tool around doing the bare minimum all day long. She didn’t get us prepped, didn’t remember our names or that we wanted them announced for our reception. After standing around for over an hour waiting for direction , we had to send a groomsmen to find her to remind her we were waiting for her … TO DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING! I paid for 5 workers to help her then she complained that “she thought we would have friends helping.” Minutes later When friends offered to help, she refused to speak to them. She’s like a child. She Told me in one meeting that I needed friends to help and then three days later told me it wasn’t necessary. Multiple times during the year-long process of planning the wedding with her. Yes ONE YEAR ! She can’t remember where she places items from one hour to the next! She was hired for rehearsal dinner. I had to ask her 30 minutes before it started if I needed to set it up and decorate myself. She tried to fit 36 people on 38 foot tables. Did absolutely nothing.i had to send her a reminder list the morning of the wedding at 6 AM About basic things because I had no faith that she would execute anything after the previous day.
She messed up the table settings. I collected vintage china for a year. She had the plastic charger plates set out for everyone to eat off of! Mine was served to me on a plastic serving plate with bows. After making a lay out and game plan for all the decor Danielle didn’t use ANYTHING as we planned . The ceremony was a horrible mess ! She didn’t use the items I wanted and provided . She forgot half my flowers at the florist. After insisting SHE picked them up instead of the florist delivering them…She didn’t make road signs visible AT ALL for guest parking . I spent hundreds of dollars on the entrance that wasn’t even seen because of her lack of competence. Gift bags, programs…a chandelier laying on the ground that she didn’t hang….all garbage! Not used , not seen, left out in the rain to get ruined all because of her I I sure hope she ate dinner tho! I paid her an extra $500 to manage my RSVP Website. Which she totally and completely botched and did not pay any attention to whatsoever. She spelled names wrong people were missing, multiple Duplicates.
I paid her $500 to stress me out for the entire six months leading up to the wedding.She forgot meetings, blew off the last two meetings in the wedding month…Every meeting was like starting over because she didn’t remember ANYTHING.
I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and be patient. And I was. Until I realized she took my money and sat around to watch me panic and cry on my wedding day while she road around looking clueless on the golf cart that was rented to guests to get transportation around the estate. It wasn’t used for that. Because Danielle forgot to tell the guests or have it available in sight. The list goes on and on. Dont quit your day job Danielle! And maybe you should think about hanging your hat up. I will feel SO BADLY if anyone else is treated this way . Do not hire her !
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Adam Sent on 09/15/2026
1 out of 5 rating

I’m impressed how poorly handled our wedding was.

Danielle. I cannot believe how bad of a job was done at our wedding. A zero star rating wouldn’t be low enough.

Groomsman’s and bridesmaids waiting around for the ceremony entrance with zero guidance. We had to find you because no one saw you for hours.

Specific plans were absolutely botched. Everything was labeled specifically and meticulously and nothing was executed how it should have been.

Me and my groomsman set things up all day the day before the wedding AND the day of until 10 minutes before our photographer came up. The band thought were hired help!

I was in a tree draping things and hanging chandeliers for our ceremony at midnight the night before the wedding because what you set up was so far away from what we planned.

Cocktail hour decor was used in the reception tent reception stuff was used in cocktail hour. Other things were used at all.

We spent year collecting beautiful plates that were supposed to be set on tables and plastic plates were used. Our sweetheart table had NO plates on it.

You were rude to my family, you made my mother who has Parkinson’s and just had brain surgery cry. You tried to sit her at a table away from her family and friends even though there was a predetermined seating chart. You yelled at my aunt and uncle was the officiant for trying to remedy the situation. Tables were missing, bridesmaids were sat at normal guest tables.

You ruined my mother son dance which was supposed to be a high light of my life. The song was wrong THREE times. I did not see you after that mishap for the rest of the night and heard you left and were not fulfilling the rest of your duties and claimed you were verbally assaulted?

The entire event was an absolute nightmare. The “best day of my life” will be a laughable memory.

It’s really a shame you made us think you had it under control. Instead you ran around like a chicken with your head cut off and your staff starting asking me for guidance about getting things together.

When we first met I said to you I do not want my bride to be running around setting things up stressed out the day of the wedding and was assured that would never happen.

That is exactly what happened. It all feels like a dream. 24 hours later my jaw is still on the floor.

Hiring you was a terrible decision and I hope no one makes the mistake we made.
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