We were referred to Gretchen with Rocket Science Weddings & Events for wedding planning for our destination wedding last fall, and she was extremely helpful in managing the wedding process. We knew we needed a planner, because we needed help both with design ideas as well as project management, and Gretchen handled both.
She sent emails letting us know what we needed to do and what was coming up, and she worked with our schedules to make sure we on top of making decisions, meetings we needed to have, and vendor contracts & payments. She also provided great ideas and feedback for colors, invitation design, flowers, etc. She gave us an idea book that was beautiful and right in line with what we were wanting for our wedding.
Even though in our agreement with her, we planned to have only Gretchen come to the Bahamas and help with the wedding, she went an extra step and brought an assistant at no charge to us to help out. The second person, Laura, was invaluable. Now that the wedding is over, I have no idea what would have happened if we didn't have Gretchen (and Laura) work on our wedding. They organized our vendors, managed schedules, and Gretchen even helped us after the wedding was over with final vendor dealings.
We are very happy we chose a planner like Gretchen for our wedding. I cannot imagine how stressful our wedding would have been had we tried to do it on our own!