After Wedding Clean-up

Ya we have to do the same and I'm still trying to figure it all out. Need someone to take home presents, remove all the chair covers and pack up all the centerpieces. Also trying to figure out where I'm supposed to keep an overnight bag during the day and transportation to our hotel that night.

The struggle is finding someone willing to stay till the end of the night and still be sober enough to help take care of everything! Haha

This is why a wedding coordinator is an asset. Not only to insure that everything flows throughout the event but also to see to the pack up at the end of the event.

This is why a wedding coordinator is an asset. Not only to insure that everything flows throughout the event but also to see to the pack up at the end of the event.

This is why a wedding coordinator is an asset. Not only to insure that everything flows throughout the event but also to see to the pack up at the end of the event.

This is why a wedding coordinator is an asset. Not only to insure that everything flows throughout the event but also to see to the pack up at the end of the event.

Personally, I'm not willing to shell out several thousand dollars to avoid picking up after myself. It would be a luxury but not practical for us.

Haha exactly, Sarah! It's like that's the last thing I'd want to ask of any of our guests! Are you allowed to leave your bag at the hotel? Or is there some place that you can keep at the reception site, out of view? Perhaps a friend/family can even stash in their vehicle for you and move to your getaway car at some point in the night.

Loretta--unfortunately a wedding coordinator isn't in the budget for us! But I can certainly see how that would solve the problem all together!

We have to be packed up and out by midnight. I had no problem asking friends and family if they would stay behind. My bridal party and most of my family offered before I even told them that's what we would have to do.

My son is 18 and I'm having him and some of his friends (paying them) do the clean up and my sister is going to be there to supervise and make sure it gets done. Our wedding is on a Sunday and the reception should be over by 9. We have the hall until 130 am.

My sister is my MOH so she will be doing my clean up along with my mother. I don't feel bad since I will do the same for her when she gets married..and my mom will do anything to make my day perfect

I am having 40 guests and we hired a DOC for the ceremony. She was only $450 and she's in charge of the entire ceremony, greeting guests, and decor (both set-up and tear down). For our reception my brother is in charge of getting everything we bring in.

We thought about this when we toured venues. The ones on our A-List include this in the fee along with a DOC. Everything we bring will be packed up and shipped to a church as a donation.

Please do whatever you can to avoid being a bride cleaning up after her wedding. Similarly, no guest or family member should be asked to help. If your budget is very restricted, see if you can find a couple of college kids who will come to the site, clean up, box up the decor, and bring it to whatever address it needs to be delivered to. Pay them when the job is done. You could also look on Craigslist for companies that advertise, "no job too small" type of thing. You'll find someone willing to take on the job.

We had to take everything away the night of the wedding, it really wasn't that big of a deal since I drove to the venue in my car. The staff put everything in my car and we were all set to go.

You do not have to pay a DOC "thousands of dollars". I am paying mine $500, but only because I told her upfront that it's the amount I was willing to pay. Email some DOCs on craigslist. Tell them the reasons you need them (it would be nice for them to set up the decor also) and tell them you're not willing to pay anymore than $200 (or whatever you can afford). I guarantee you will get some hits.

My sisters and cousin are going to be gathering up the stuff, some of the flowers, and any gifts/cards. Everyone has been offering to help and 95% of the guests are relatives. The venue has a coordinator who will be there, but I trust my own relatives to handle these details.

I had to clean, which sucked but I knew it was going to happen. I had many friends helping me, but I couldn't ask them to do it and me not doing anything. Plus I had to return the keys and it was my name on the contract, so I had to make sure it was as we left it or I'd get fined.

All of our stuff has to be out also. I plan on enlisting my teenage/20 something nephews and nieces and a few close friends and family into helping. That is how we roll anyway. I host Thanksgiving and cook turkey, ham, pies and a few sides, they wash the dishes before they leave. Not a big deal.

I had to have everything taken as well. My coordinators did it along with the servers.

Hire someone to do it. Also, let your guests take home the flowers. That's one less thing to have to pack up.

I am paying a couple of high school boys, sons of a friend, to pack up and move everything for us.