Hi Amy, Congrats on your upcoming wedding! I am leaving in 23 days for our wedding Nov 17th. We are doing a symbolic ceremony for the same reasons you are thinking. We are getting married at the courhouse in the US a week before we leave and my parents are going to be the witnesses. We are not telling the other guests that we will already be married that way they don't feel cheated. I have not worked with Nayeli, but I have read several posts that it takes quite a while for her to get back to people. I am working with Llenny and she has been great. Longest I have gone without an email response has been a week. And now she has been emailing me asking for things like the seating chart. I also have received the wedding planner numerous times with all the updates in it as well as the photos of flower arrangements I have sent in the past. She even suggested a different flower for the bridesmaid bouquets because i wanted to keep the cost down and she cut the price by 75% on each. Let me know if you have any other questions!