Destination Wedding Travel

Our travel agent, Janice Sullinger, was incredibly helpful. She helped coordinate both our destination wedding and our honeymoon. She was so knowledgeable and really made herself available to us. I definitely recommend her for help in planning a destination wedding or even a vacation!

We began working with Destination Weddings almost 2 years before our wedding. Our "coordinator" was pleasant to work with for during our preparation of the wedding. However, after things appeared to be done and moneys were paid in full, she disappeared. The entire time we worked together, we were assured that she would be available to us and our guests during our trip to Mexico. Many, many things went wrong while we were in Mexico and she was not available the entire time. We ended up spending 98% of our time in the hotel room on our laptops and Blackberries trying to contact people in Mexico and the U.S. to troubleshoot the problems that arose. This resulted in us not being able to enjoy the resort we paid handsomely to stay at for a mere 5 nights or, our guests who we convinced to come to Mexico for our destination wedding.

Destination Weddings is NOT, i repeat NOT a wedding planning agency. They are a travel agency. They recommended us to Lomas Travel, who were absolutely not capable of executing our wedding. We were harassed all weekend and did not receive anything we requested for our wedding after over a year of planning.

When our "coordinator" from Destination Weddings finally resurfaced. We found out she was on vacation, which we were not informed she would be before we left the U.S., and could not do anything. Destination Weddings is a travel agency also capitalizing on the entire Destination Weddings idea.

I absolutely would not recommend working with these vendors. Bring your own planner from the U.S. that is invested in your wedding and not part of some wedding money making machine. You will be so much happier for it in the end and feel your money was well spent.