Jessica's Premier Planning

arger package (yearlong communication/planning and day of coordination) since I lived across the country from where my wedding was being held. Here are some notes about our experience with Jessica (everything that I've written below is a review of her service at our wedding, not her personally.): - We had a lot of issues with our hotel and guest transportation, but Jessica was able to work with them and make sure all of our guests had a place to stay and a ride to and from the venue. - Prior to hiring her, I asked how I could make sure that she would be at all wedding events since she is also a flight attendant. She assured me that she had full control of her flight schedule and doesn't take flights the week of a wedding that she's planning to make sure that she is there for all of it. The week of our rehearsal, Jessica let me know that there was a chance she wouldn't be able to make the rehearsal because she was working a flight on Wednesday and that weather might hinder her from making it back by Friday. Her reasoning for taking the flight the week of our wedding was that she got paid time and a half from the airline since it was around the holidays. She ended up missing the rehearsal and sending her assistant in her place. Her assistant was lovely but wasn't the one I hired and wasn't up to speed on all of the details Jessica and I had discussed. This led to a very rocky rehearsal and details that were changed by Jessica the next day, like how the bridal party was supposed to enter the ceremony. Not having a structured rehearsal showed in our wedding the next day. - She promised that she only works 2 weddings a month in order to give proper attention to her brides. The month before our wedding, she worked on 5. I was confused why I hadn't heard anything from her in months, but when we connected the month before my wedding, she told me about the 5 weddings and it all made sense. Almost all of the communication throughout that year required me to start the conversation and all but a few of the decisions and details made for the wedding I did on my own and got her up to speed the month before the wedding when we finally talked. - She told me multiple times that she makes sure no one bothers her couples during dinner so they can eat their meal. This was not the case at our wedding. We spent all dinner surrounded by guests and when we had time to eat the food was cold, but we scarfed it down so we would make the timeline of the cake cutting. - The morning of the wedding, my bridesmaids were taking down chairs to get the room set up for other vendors because no one was present at the venue to do it, and it needed to get done. It wasn't coordinated with the vendors who would be there to set up and when. When she did arrive to the venue, I saw her in passing a few times, but she didn’t come up to tell me that she was there or ask if I needed anything. Overall, our wedding went very well, and other vendors were able to fill the gaps that were present in the planning and coordination. Again, this is nothing personal against Jessica, I just think in our experience we saw that she was stretched too thin, and it was made clear to us for about a year that our wedding was one of her lower priorities compared to her other weddings and her job as a flight attendant.