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Celebrity wedding planner David Tutera lists Connecticut estate for $1.45 million. See what the 9-acre property looks like.
BY KENNETH R. GOSSELIN | kgosselin@courant.com
Celebrity wedding planner David Tutera, whose high-powered client list boasts the likes of Elton John, Prince Charles and J. Lo, and is known to millions through his reality television show "My Great Big Lifetime Wedding," has listed his East Haddam estate for $1.45 million.
Tutera bought the 9-acre estate with 7 bedroom and 5 baths on Tater Hill Road in 2003 as a weekend retreat outside of New York. In the years since, Tutera pursued renovations throughout the property. The main house, which dates to 1840, marries original architectural elements such as floors with updated moldings, lighting and wallpaper.
The main house has a kitchen with copper ceiling and a movie theater, plus a gym over a 3-car garage and a carriage house renovated into a 4-bedroom, 2-bath guest house.
Tutera was only the fourth owner of the property, which was once a potato farm.
In 2015, Tutera told Z100, the New York radio station, according to a social media post by bridalguide.com, that his fee for personally planning a wedding was $50,000 at that time. But the fee was lower — $15,000 to $20,000 — if his staff planned the details.
"I don't get percentages ... we're not like interior decorators," Tutera, who is also a bridal fashion designer, told the radio station. "My fee remains the same whether you spend a dollar or $10 million."
Real estate agent Zoe Zrakas of William Pitt/Sotheby's International Realty in Old Lyme has the listing.
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