jasoncwms

That's good to hear about your cost. Definitely backs up what we thought, in how this will save us some money in the long run. I appreciate the advice. I think I will end up using a TA after all. Yea, I used the search on the Azul site for their "GI Wedding Consultants" aka travel agents here--> http://www.karismahotels.com/giwcsearch Found one here in NJ who I already contacted. Fiancee and I will be talking to her tomorrow night after work. But sure, we would love to see who you used as well. In the end, we just want someone reliable & will respond when we send questions lol.

Greetings everyone, Something is telling me that I may be the one and only guy on this thread, lol. Anyway, here I am My lovely fiancee and I have been jointly planning everything. At first we were looking for places local here in NJ, but realized that the good places cost so much. We visited about 5 different venues, but in the end we kept coming back to the idea of a destination wedding. She found Azul Fives and loved it, showed it to me & I was shocked how nice it was as well. So my question to all of you is, do you just use the wedding coordinator they set you up with? Or is it better to actually use a travel agent and have them set it up. Our wedding will have about 40-50 people, with most of them coming from the NJ/NY area. We are planning for next June. Ideally we don't want to go overboard with the cost & try to keep it no more than 15k at most. Just want to know everyone's thoughts on if we should use a TA instead of their coordinators.