Hey Craig,
I’ve tried the plugin with Fuji, and without seeing your back-end I cannot tell with confidence that this is something that the theme does (however, I do not rule out such possibility) since the free version does not offer all the features that are needed to duplicate the bug. I can give you a line of CSS code, however, which is likely to solve the extra space issue – please try inserting this into your child theme’s style.css or into the main style.css (if you are not using a child theme):
.event_espresso_form_wrapper br { display: none; }
You can edit the theme’s style.css file by visiting the “Appearance -> Editor” admin section.
Please let me know if the above code helps!
Sincerely,
Andrii / Satori Studio