About this vendor
We are here to make your vision become a reality and your dreams come true. Here at vision weddings you will recieve the best service possible. Contact us today for specials on all packages. We look forward to working with you and giving you the best the valley has to offer. Contact information update 5407460960
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Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Honeymoon
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bachelor Party
Awards and Affiliations
2020 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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2.9
out of 5.021 reviews
Writing this review as an honest reflection of my interactions with this vendor. I hired Christina to help plan our wedding in August of 2019 for our 2020 wedding (which provided t...
he lockdowns all end, will still happen). To date, I have never met her personally but have texted and spoke with her several times on the phone. When we hired her, the reviews were all positive and all interactions I had with her had been professional and fit my needs. I am a full time teacher and did not have much money to give for a DOC service, so I was very glad that she was willing to work with our low budget.
**please keep reading, this post will answer a lot of questions about the previous reviews** My fiance was contacted randomly by a former client of hers via facebook (we do not know this person, and don't know how they found us- but we have suspicions). This person informed us that this vendor was a "scam artist" and "stole money". We then did our homework and saw the negative reviews that had been posted after we hired her. I can't speak to these women's experiences, but I will say that we had NO ISSUES getting in touch with Christina to discuss this troubling situation. She immediately told us her side of the story, and we asked for our money back as a show of good faith on the understanding that she would be paid upon completion of services. We figured “if she is a scammer, the money's gone anyway.” To our pleasant surprise she then returned all our money via Venmo. She also provided us (per our request) a copy of her LLC and insurance policy, professional references and her training certificate.
I am rating Christina four stars only because my wedding has not happened yet and I can’t honestly speak to her physical day of coordination services. However I can vouch for the morality of this vendor, simply put, a scam artist does not return money.
It is my opinion that this is an individual who, like many of us at one time or another, was hit with a hard time. Again, I can’t speak to these women’s experiences, but given that everything seems to be legally above board and we received 100% of our money back we are going to honour OUR end of the contract we signed with her and keep her as a DOC.
I know negative reviews can be scary, but I also truly think that DOC services are sinfully overpriced industry wide and that is almost impossible to get through a wedding without a DOC. Bottom line, Christina’s rates are affordable. My advice would be to those who are looking to hire her. Speak to her first, and if the fit feels right ask if she is willing to be flexible on payment procedures. She is a very reasonable person and may work with you to do something where you pay her the day of the event.
I hope this was helpful. Cheers!
If you don't read anything else.... read this... DO NOT HIRE THIS VENDOR!! Today's date: March 21, 2020. My wedding: June 13, 2020. I hired Christina Amos Loker with "Vision Weddin...
gs" in May of 2019. I am less than three months away from my wedding and I just learned today that I no longer have this vendor, in fact, I NEVER really did! When I hired Christina, she seemed totally legit, we had a great phone call consultation where she was extremely friendly, and she later sent me a contract that we both signed, and along with that I sent her my deposit. As everyone else's story goes... after I sent her money, her responses were few and far between. Occasionally she would reach out to me and offer me a "discount" if I paid in full. When I declined to do so, I pretty much never heard from her again. Fast forward to March 13th 2020. I hired this chick to be a 3-month planner. I reached out asking when we could touch base, no answer; actually, no delivery of the text. I immediately had a hunch, but gave her the benefit of the doubt that it is a busy time. Texted again a couple days later, no delivery. Called the number, and of course, couldn't be reached as dialed. Emailed her, of course, no response. After diligent internet investigating, I found a girl who helped her with other weddings and she provided me Christina's "new number". To spare the details, my first text said "you know exactly why I'm contacting you" (AKA...give me my money back) and without even TRYING to give me a response, she started entertaining the idea of returning my money. She even tried to tell me her new venmo name is Amber Dawn. I literally said who the hell is Amber Dawn?!! Anyways, it seemed like she kept almost trying to buy herself time to maybe block me again or something. As soon as I threatened to call the magistrate, I received a refund via PayPal. Not gonna lie here folks, I went as far as messaging her husband on facebook (creepy that I found him I know) to try and get my money back. A friend of mine even reached out to him as well. Hours after I was refunded, we received a facebook message from a "Tommi Amos" (I believe her mom's name) however the profile had no posts, no pictures, no friends. Seemed like she made it right then and there to message my friend back, and still gave us the same BS story about her icloud/google account issues. I'm pretty sure she didn't connect the dots between my friend and I and was just so used to having to "refund" any bride at this point. I have no idea what is wrong with this woman, maybe she bit off more than she can chew, or maybe shes just a straight up con artist--but the truth is she is terrible at it and with everyone coming forward, this circle of destruction she's created with so many couples is closing in on her. I'm thankful I got my money back, but now I'm weeks away from my wedding without a planner. Very disappointing. Christina Loker, Allie Mullins, Amber Dawn, whoever the hell you are today, you should be ashamed of yourself, and I know I will do all I can to make sure other people won't be affected by you as you inevitably face the consequences of your actions.
DO NOT HIRE
I never send out reviews but for this fraud I will. Just like other reviews stated she started out great by calling us on the phone to talk. She wanted to set up a meeting with my...
fiancé and myself. Needless to say the lunch never happened. We booked her in May 2019 for our August 2020 wedding and didn’t hear from her at all. I had reached out to her at the end of November 2019 and was informed her and some other girl would attend my wedding but the message was brief in regards to the long one I had sent her. However, 8 months before our wedding my fiancé and I decided to change plans to an outer banks destination wedding. We no longer needed a coordinator and reached out for our deposit back. The number we had was disconnected and Christina would not reply to emails. Just as soon as I was about to start getting angry about the situation I was informed by the mother of another groom that this woman had ripped off her son weeks before his wedding. She has also ripped off many other couples. Thankfully the mother of the other groom had managed to find her number and I was able to text her for my refund back of $400. 1. She never reached out to me stating she was changing her contact info. 2. She has changed her name to Allie Mullins. She is a local of the Harrisonburg area so I’m not quite sure how she expects to get away with screwing over brides. We have all banned together against you and hope legal charges are filed. I’m lucky we changed our wedding plans and never used her. Other brides and grooms have not been so lucky and have scrambled for someone else to come along and help coordinate their wedding day. She is a scam and no one should let her get away with this.
Christina Amos Loker/Vision Weddings has scammed at least 8 couples in the last few months alone, including me and my fiance. She takes your money and disappears. This is not a rea...
l wedding planning business, and I am reaching out to The Knot corporate about how they are giving a platform to a fradulent business. The positive reviews on this vendor profile do not reflect reality. While we were able to get our money back, we now need to scramble to find a new coordinator.
There are so many people that have been scammed by this pathetic girl in the last few months. She needs to be prosecuted so she will not continue to do this to innocent brides! Thi...
s is absolutely terrible! So glad I saw these reviews before I contacted the company! Awful! She needs to be reported to the local authorities since she is still trying to scam people and just changing the name of the company and her name! What a wack job!
If you don't wish to read my entire review, please just hear this. 25 days out from our wedding, my fiancé and I decided to fire Christina with Vision Weddings. In short, our reaso...
ns include a serious lack of communication, and zero professionalism - changing emails + phone numbers and not informing fully paid clients of these changes. I would encourage you, as a bride or groom, to carefully read her reviews, not just on this platform, but also The Knot and Google.
To share my experience in a bit more detail - we hired Christina for day-of coordination. She was very quick to respond to us in the beginning, take our deposit and make us feel like we made a very wise choice. Not too many months after paying our deposit, Christina reached out to us informing us that if we went ahead and paid in full, she would give us a discount. We did that - no problem. Fast forward a bit, we emailed Christina four times to ask if she could send a copy of her business insurance to our wedding venue. With no response, I finally texted her. She got back to me stating my emails must be going to spam and shared a new email with me. This bothered me as a fully paid client I was not informed of this email change. We looked past this. Now, at the beginning of the year we finished our wedding weekend itinerary and sent it to her. We didn't hear anything, so I followed up to confirm that she received it and asked if we could schedule a call to discuss the flow of the day in the upcoming weeks. No response - so I followed up again. I did get a brief response stating yes, let's get something on the schedule. Quickly responded to her - and then again, nothing. After trying to call the number I had previously used with her, it instantly went to a recorded message saying the phone number was unavailable...goodbye. With this information I was so confused because at this point I wasn't sure how to get a hold of this person I have trusted to coordinate my wedding...and the women that I have already paid. Then, I found three reviews on The Knot, from January 2020 stating she was a fraud, etc. This concerned my fiancé and I. After a series of events, we were finally able to talk to Christina and we let her know that based on this experience we have had and the reviews we were seeing online, we would like to discontinue service with her and get our money back. To Christina's defense, we did get our money back. BUT - this whole experience has really dulled the spark of wedding planning for my fiancé and I. So - in the long and short of this - don't put yourself through this. Enjoy wedding planning and this experience with you loved one and don't use Christina.
Please do not go with this wedding planner!! My mother paid $1,200 (half of a deposit) for her full-service package to help me with my upcoming June wedding and all she did for us ...
was meet once to go over a basic wedding plan and offer me five or six wedding vendor suggestions (both after weeks of begging her and barely getting a response). There was no vision board or budget discussion as mentioned in the contract, she has not done anything at all to help us book vendors. She will only contact you if she wants more money, either through you paying the rest of the deposit early for her "Black Friday Sale" or to promote her photography business. She has tried to take advantage of me multiple times by promoting her other ventures instead of doing her job. We tried for over a month to contact her through two of her phone numbers, her facebook, and her email and she would not respond to any modes of contact until threatened with legal action. We found out through another scammed client that she had changed her phone number without informing anyone. She refunded my mother's money this morning with no dispute over the poor quality of her service and has been using pity for her children as a means to guilt people into taking their negative reviews down. She has also blocked my mother from seeing the Vision Weddings facebook page so that she can't comment or see other people's reviews. We have missed several wedding planning opportunities because we wasted our time waiting for her to do the bare minimum of her job. What a scam.
Please do not contact this deceiving individual. She has taken my sons money. Does not respond to texts , emails or phone calls. We are going to the police this afternoon. If ...
anyone else is interested in pursuing legal action please let me know and we can all do this together. This woman is a total scam
DO NOT HIRE THIS WOMAN. She is a fraud. She will act perfect in the beginning and once you put down a deposit you will never hear from her again. She will block you on every social...
media platform and block your phone numbers as well. She is a THIEF.
She is a fraud...Unfortunately, this woman is a scam. She has mastered the art of making happy individuals give her their money and then never provided her services that she contra...
cted. She had promised that she would be there for her couples 24/7 before the wedding, but that is not the case. She has sent my fiancé and I into a rush to find someone who will provide assistance on one of the most important days of our lives. She has no longer responded to any messages that I have sent in over a month as her contract states. She has stated that her phone is broken and has needed to get a "new number," she is a complete fake. Please protect yourself and find someone who will provide the services that they have outlined in their contract.
She also does not have the decency to return the deposit for her services that she did not provide. Please, do not use this woman for your wedding.
Summary: Do not hire Christina! She took our $400 deposit and stopped responding to our texts and blocked our numbers 4 months from the wedding! Absolutely a nightmare to work with...
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When we initially contacted Christina in April of 2018 she was very responsive and great. We put down the $400 deposit and decided to go with her as our day of coordinator. We continued to work with her on a few items regarding our wedding planning. While she was responsive until December 2018 her responses were often confusing and unsatisfactory. Overall, she was mostly unhelpful. From December 3rd onwards she stopped responding to our text messages entirely. When attempting to call her we found out that both of our numbers had been blocked.
After 27 days of no response we consulted legal advice and were left with no option but to terminate our contract with her on December 30th given that her ignorance of our text messages constituted material breach of our contract in accordance with Virginia state law (Horton v. Horton, 254 Va. 111, 115-16, 487 S.E.2d 200, 203-04). She failed to fulfill the obligation of her contract that states that she will be available 24/7 via text. We sent her numerous messages over a period of 27 days that she never responded to. We asked for our deposit back due to her violation of the contract.
As of writing this we have still not heard from her and plan on beginning legal proceedings unless the deposit is returned.
Christina was a LIFESAVER for my wedding. I booked her frantically, after my venue had replaced their coordinator 4 times!
She was able to work with my budget for day-of coordinat...
ion, helped with the Rehearsal, and made sure everything went smoothly the day of. We had some Big issues with the florist and decorations, but she and her assistants came to the rescue and made it all work. She checked in with me constantly to make sure everything looked just how I had envisioned it, and honestly helped make my dream wedding a reality!!! I could NOT have done it without her help and I'd recommend her 100% for ANY bride and groom planning a wedding, no matter how big or small.
There were details I didn't even think of that came up, and she dealt with them! She made sure all the vendors were accounted for, on time, and in place. She worked with the timeline, even with delays, and made sure things ran smoothly the whole day!
Christina and her team are amazing! I was hesitant about hiring a coordinator because I thought I could do it all myself... nope. I was so so stressed out and decided to reach out ...
to Vision Weddings and I was so shocked how reasonably priced they were and the service was incredible! Christina made my vision a reality. ❤️❤️ I can’t thank you enough!!
I am currently engaged, and I hired Christina to help me plan our wedding. She has been nothing short of amazing. Her prices are SO reasonable. I was worried about hiring someone I...
hadn’t met (wedding venue is 2 hours away). She called me and explained to me her different packages and what she provides in each one. She calmed all my worries in one simple phone call. She has answered every single one of my questions. If she doesn’t know the answer, she finds out (and fast). She is constantly keeping my budget in mind, and she gives me other ideas and options to think about before I make any decisions. I highly reccomend Christina and vision weddings if you need any sort of wedding planning or day of coordinating help!
Christina is helping me plan my dream wedding and she has made everything so easy and soooo fun! We are thrilled to have found her as a wedding planner.
Vision Weddings is spectacular to work with! Fine details that the bride forgets with so much going on being newly engaged— Christina makes sure they are not left out! She makes su...
re everything the day of runs smoothly and is highly reassuring that everything will be PERFECT.
She was excellent to work with us she answered any questions we had and made sure the day of ran smooth. I would recommend her.
I’m so glad we decided to go with Vision Weddings. She has made every worry/ stress of mine go away completely. She is so genuine and wonderful to work with. If you want your dream...
wedding to be stress free I highly recommend Vision Weddings!
Christina is helping us plan our wedding and has been AMAZING!! She has given us ideas, her opinion, and has been available 24/7 to help us because let’s be honest...ideas come to ...
us at ALL hours LOL. I highly recommend her! ♥️
Christina is the best! Her attention to detail and love for her brides shines through. She genuinely cares about your big day and goes above and beyond to make it a dream ! Highly ...
recommend her.
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