Destinations Found

ease the ease of a wedding? Destinations Found LITERALLY did the opposite. We first booked Destinations Found as a day-of-coordinator and, after paying the deposit - BAM! No contact. Emails went without response. Questions went unanswered. Radio silence. My family and I were confused. Yes, our wedding was months away. Was she busy? Was she putting her focus on weddings that were sooner? What if we upgrade her from a day-of-coordinator to an actual wedding planner? Surely, the additional 3 grand would ensure that we get the attention and time we desired. So, deposit paid. And - BAM. NO CHANGE. Emails and calls and texts are sent into a black void. The months crawl on. I research and book all the vendors myself. I construct gift bags and decor. I keep track of my budget - all things that were promised to be provided by Destinations Found under their contract. And we begin to get worried. My plan to hike the Long Trail (which takes about a month) is beginning to concern me. I can't figure out what it was we paid for. At this point, I've put in so much work, I might as well be planning it myself. Who am I supposed to tell the vendors to contact while I'm in the woods? I finally learn that apparently texting her is the best way to reach her. I pass her number on to my mother-in-law (who has also been working really hard with me to plan the wedding) and go backpacking for a month. When I return, I learn that Jessica had been rude to my mother-in-law, who has literally been doing Jessica's job! You'd think after years of working in the industry she'd understand how to deal with clients professionally, but nope! And had Jessica done anything? At all? For my wedding in a month? Not really! She made a timeline, something that appeared boiler-plate with me and my fiancé's names copied and pasted in. At this point vendors are contacting ME and asking me who's running the show. I keep passing Jessica's name and number along and hear from them that even the vendors can't get in touch with her. I'm worried. Maybe I'd done too much planning myself? Maybe I hadn't been explicit with what I needed from her for this event. So, a week before the wedding, I give her a very explicit task: we need a generator. We need it by next week. And we need it to last the night of the reception. Did she deliver? Absolutely not. Thankfully my mother-in-law's brother had a generator and the tent company was able to provide one as well. Once again, my in-laws pull through to fill the gaps made by this absent wedding planner. She wasn't present at my wedding. She sent along two other people I didn't know. They were twenty minutes late for the rehearsal and we ended up telling THEM what was going on. No one was in charge. If anyone was, it was the DJ. (Talena with Premier Events is a gem.) Please, everyone on TheKnot, save your money. Do not book with Destinations Found. Jessica Fuster's inattentiveness and unprofessionalism is simply not worth it. It almost feels illegal. I could list numerous points in the contract that she failed to deliver on, but most of the measures protect her interests, not yours. At NO point did I feel like a priority. At all. I STILL don't know what exactly it was that I'd paid for. Learn from my mistakes and find another planner.

The rest is, unfortunately, quite negative. We were left feeling as though she didn't really value us or our wedding the way you would want a planner to. Our amazing families and friends ensured that our weekend turned out beautiful despite our planner issues. The Negatives 1. Communication: This is the biggest issue we had with Jessica. There were often emails that went unanswered for weeks, despite numerous follow ups from us. When we did get responses, they were often incomplete. We had to have multiple conversations where we voiced our displeasure with the lack of communication, were told it would be better, but then didn't see any follow through. Despite having weekly calls scheduled, we routinely had to email and call Jessica and leave multiple voicemails (because her phone always goes to voicemail) after the calls were supposed to start in order to get meeting links sent to us. Multiple occasions where she just didn't reply to any of those emails or calls so our weekly meetings ended up not happening. Her phone went straight to voicemail during the wedding weekend as well. Had to send people to search for her in order to actually get any answers from her during the wedding weekend. She did not even take the time to seek out or check in with my wife until just before the reception (day 2 of events that we had hired her for). 2. Follow through and attention to detail: was also a major problem. We were promised renderings of what the decorations would look like as well as florals, but never received any of those. Jessica helped arranged shuttles for our guests, didn't really look at the timings so ended up having the company send us schedules that would have had our guests arriving an hour after our events were scheduled to start. My wife and I caught those mistakes and made the changes with the company. We wanted childhood photos to be placed at the tables during the reception and printed out the photos, but Jessica never attempted to get those photos from us to actually put out. Our guest book was also placed in a corner and the instructions weren’t put out, so very few guests ended up signing it. We also contracted her services for florals and the ones we received did not really resemble the photos we sent. 3. "Coordination": She didn’t really take any initiative to coordinate anything. My wife was basically ready to walk down the aisle and had to ask Jessica about her bouquet before someone got it for her. We purchased dried flower petals packets to give to the children at our wedding so they could throw them as we left the ceremony, but those were never given out. We realized this when our officiant directed the children to line the aisle and no one moved. We had also asked Jessica to arrange for us to get appetizers from the caterers while we were getting ready for the reception. This was also not done. 4. Transparency: After the wedding, we wanted to take a look at the invoices for the florals to see what we paid for to make sure that we weren’t charged for anything that we did not get. We discussed multiple items in the planning process which we did not receive. We never got emailed invoices and the links to the proposals were deactivated. I emailed Jessica twice asking for the itemized invoices and have still not received any reply from her

ul with taking over vendor communication, figuring out our wedding day schedule, and answering any last minute questions. We had a very hectic wedding weekend and had to change venues last minute, which we absolutely would not have been able to do without Destinations Found! Highly recommend

h our venue, but Hayley handled all our problems for us. We could not have done it without her. Our rehearsal went off without a hitch because of Hayley. She was direct and professional, as well as fun and kind. She did all of our set up on the day of the wedding on her own. She created a detailed wedding timeline, which all of our vendors appreciated. Hayley also took care of reaching out to all of the vendors two weeks prior to the wedding, which was extremely helpful and alleviated stress from us. During the ceremony and reception, Hayley made sure everything happened according to plan. Everything went smoothly. She attended to all of the details, big and small, to make sure our day was as we imagined. Hayley flawlessly coordinated all of the pieces of our wedding day. She truly felt like part of our wedding family. We could not thank her enough. We highly recommend her and Destinations Found.

done she was already on it and it was already completed. She made the whole year, week, and day leading up to my wedding a breeze. I wish I had her in my every day life!

minor timeline issues occurred or things werent quite up to the couple's expectations, we knew we needed a planner. Haley literally was our own personal assistant for the day-- even running around the hotel for batteries for our goofy props! She really enhanced our wedding day and we are forever grateful!

Hayley took care of so flawlessly I never even noticed! Planning a wedding is so stressful and having a planner/ month of planner is essential to enjoying your day and ensuring that your investment is something that you can really take it all in! Thanks so much Hayley! <3

ut any minor mishaps or overlooked details. In fact, I somehow managed to bump the end of my flowers against the front of my dress during the ceremony and had an unsightly smudge down the front of my white wedding dress. Jessica seamlessly saved the day with a Tide to-go wipe and the dress was good as new for pictures and dancing the night away. Jessica and her team were behind-the-scenes heroes for our entire day!

ed planning my wedding. But there was no way my wedding would have gone so smoothly, been everything we wanted, and been so perfect if she hadn’t been there. If you’ve never been a bride, you don’t know exactly what happens on your wedding day. Sure, there are all the normal things — getting ready, maybe a first look, photos, the ceremony and the reception. But there are SO many things happening. People are asking questions, you’re trying to make sure all the things are getting done in the middle of getting your hair done, and somehow there are still things that you need to decide, despite it already being THE DAY OF. This happens *no matter how much planning you do*. She ran the show from start to finish — she was there to guide us through every step of the day. She helped guide our vendors. (I literally didn’t have to answer a single question about vendors on the day of!) She kept things organized and helped reassure me, even though was 15 minutes late. She made sure we ate dinner. She told us how to cut our cake, (something I didn’t even KNOW we needed help with) reminded us to do our garter toss, bouquet toss, and all of the normal traditions. She took care of literally everything. Jess was absolutely essential. And I let her do everything that day — I felt carefree, confident, and the last thing I was thinking about was any sort of timeline. I wasn’t thinking about our entrance or dances or anything. We were able to laugh and dance and enjoy each other and our guests, and she helped keep things naturally moving forward. It was one of the best days of my life. And she’s a huge reason why.

hout any fuss or drama. We were very impressed and super-pleased!

sure event. She had great connections with other vendors and was very logical and wise about her time and resource management. We also found her to be very pleasant to work with!

coming up, made appointments, kept in contact with us and our vendors, and made sure everything ran smoothly! We live in Texas and made 2 trips up prior to the week before our wedding. We also called on Jessica's expertise for our honeymoon, 2 weeks in Belgium and France. She booked our hotels, made wonderful suggestions on places to stay, things to see, places to eat, etc. We could not have done this without her! She is definitely family now.

utely no clue about it until the next day. They were just so amazing and I would never have a wedding without them!!!!!

r weekend meetings, she helped us make sure our day was thoughtfully planned out with the small details we looked past. Thank you Jessica for making our day run smoothly and supporting us along the way!! You rock!"

trip ever!!!!