As a rule, booking everything separate yourself is likely to end up cheaper. When you're having other people do that work for you, they tend to take a cut for themselves. However, sometimes they're also able to leverage connections in the industry into a cheaper rate for you, so the agent/package approach is not universally worse than putting together your own package. I would suggest at least trying to put together your own package to give yourself a ballpark idea of how much you should be spending on something an agent puts forth.
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