Day of coordinator

I mostly needed mine to be the person that my other vendors contacted and to handle the set up.

i only hired mine for set up

I didn't really assign mine any "duties"--she came up with all the "duties" because that was part of her job! She helped manage so many details that I was clueless on, lol

Our DOC helped build our timeline, reached out to each vendor to finalize plans the week of the wedding, attended and ran our rehearsal, did all of our setup and tear down, pretty much ran the entire event and kept the wedding party, guests, and vendors on track, removed gifts and card box before dinner, and loaded cars up with designated items at the end of the night.

Hopefully your Coordinator already knows what they should be doing for you. But if you haven’t had that conversation yet, they really act as a month of Coordinator instead. They contact all of your vendors to make sure they know who they are, and address any concerns. They should have at least two meetings with you about a month out, to talk about the game plan and timeline etc. They create a timeline for your day, probably the most important detail. They run your wedding rehearsal, and they run your timeline on the day of your wedding.

Ours will be dealing with the vendors, ensuring everything is set up and taken down correctly, telling each person when to start walking down the aisle, handling issues that pop up, etc. Our coordinator works for the venue and is also the one we are contacting about guest counts, payments, and food, etc.

She was our venue contact, so we didn't assign her duties.

But she was in charge of set up, coordinating with vendors, changing over the room, working on the time table with the DJ, and clean up. And probably a gazillion things I didn't even think of.

She made it clear that if we didn't eat, it was her fault (we ate grandly), and her job was to be pretty invisible. Honestly... I don't think I saw her until the end of the night, when she was asking us what we wanted to keep or get rid of...

Ours was the point of contact for all of your vendors, her and her people were in charge of set up and break down, she helped with the timeline, she basically ran/directed the entire wedding, and she attended and directed the reception. These are the biggest things I remember our DOC/planner doing.