Thanks for the replies.

Just to clarify, I did give awardplanner a much more detailed itin. I was hoping to take advantage of their experience to get as much travel for my miles as possible.

After my return trip had been available to book for over a week it appearred the FC reward seats were being rapidly booked up. Since this was a honeymoon trip to a popular destination I did not feel I could take the chance and wait to see if awardplanner could do any better. At this point I booked the travel myself.

I did call awardplanner twice to see if the trip was being worked on prior to booking it myself.

There's no hard feelings. The fee is being refunded with no arguements.