CatWoman

I find it rather silly NOT to pay for your services before hand, as this is virtually the only way things can be confirmed before you arrive. The process, as explained to myself was that the wedding is turned over to the coordinator once everything is finalized. I'd much rather trust someone in America than someone in a third world country...all of the fraud has been found to be routed from there, anyway, as payments post from the resort once the planner sends it for processing. Under the proposal that Joannis sent me, it does state: * Items listed are not confirmed until FULL payment has been made on each item. * Final payment is due 45 days prior to arrival. Any items purchased within 45 days of arrival are subject to availability Policies may have changed since the new collections are out now, and they do have a bit of a mess with that since a lot of them are not available when they are stated to be on the site. This is the resort's fault of course, though. I had a wonderful time, and nothing has come back to haunt me afterwards either. My opinion is, if I can't trust someone from a company with my money, I wouldn't want to have something as important as my wedding to be handled by the company in general. I had generosity from both Joannis and Janina, and I would recommend either of them to future brides that have an open mind.

I'm not entirely sure why anyone would think Miami "may mess" anything up. I'd much rather speak to them, as they know proper English, and have a way better turn around with their response time. I had a terrible time with my coordinator on site, Lily. My planner in Miami, Joannis, has even sent me follow up messages to see how everything went, I'm planning on sending her photos soon!