diy Wedding - Who sets up?

I'd highly recommend getting a day of coordinator. They can set everything up and tear it down, and can serve as a point of contact the day of so you and your family aren't running around trying to get everything done.

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I have the venue setting up and tearing down the actual set up but just the decorations need to be placed on the tables and stuff like that. Do you think that would be pricey still if it's just for decor?

I would hire a DOC. It's not your bridal party or family's responsibility to setup or tear down your wedding.

I am not having a DOC. Don't want to spend the money on something so stupid. I will be setting up one table with the centerpiece layout and having the caterers do the rest, they offered. I will be setting up our sweetheart table, and having my girls help me with our donut display, it will all take two seconds. The only other things that really need to be set up are the memorial table, card box and guest book. I will be leaving either my grandma or ask my brother to help with that. My grandmother also made decor for the aisle so I will be asking her to set that up.

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It totally depends on your area and who's local and available, really. We have to rent tables, chairs, linens, etc., so there's a separate company setting all that up and our coordinator will set up decorations, centerpieces, and make sure all the vendors show up on time. We actually have her for month-of-coordination, so she's now officially in charge of contacting the vendors and keeping us on track. I believe that was $1,200, and her DOC cost was $800. I personally think it's absolutely worth it

Our family, our wedding party and a friend along with some church members helped me set up mine.

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Totally understandable. That's why I wanted to be the one setting it up. I did have some of the groomsmen offer to help before hand so that may be the option I go with if I don't hire a DOC. Thank you for your input!

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Hm! Okay, I will look into that and weigh my options. At least now I have options! So thank you very much for your suggestion!

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Okay awesome. I was planning on doing our sweetheart table. My dad is actually creating our arch and flower wall by hand so he was just going to set that up. I did have some of the groomsmen offer to help set up so I could possibly have them set up the centerpieces, utensils, etc. with my supervision (i think the groomsmen need a little woman direction to make it more pretty lol). That is cool to see that another bride is doing it herself too!

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How long did it take for them to set up? How many people do you think in total it took to help set up? And were they still able to have time to get ready or did they come already ready?

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Lol yes my thought was to set up what I need to while the girls are setting up breakfast and what not then join them. Once everything is complete I will do a quick walk through to make sure it is how I want it and then be done.

View Quoted Comment We started set up around 330p for a 5p ceremony. They already came ready because we took photos before the set up started. So we had a total of ten wedding party members and then we had my brother, my dad, his dad, and his mom. We also had my friend and then a few church ladies help us along with the pastor and the av guy. So I'd say total we had was almost 20 people but the thing about my set up is we also had a diy cocktail hour so it only took 3-4 people to set up 170 chairs for the ceremony and that was relatively quick. And then the rest were decorating and setting up the cocktail hour. My husband omgosh he really wanted to make the drinks aha so he was standing there mixing drinks with his groomsman into big drink dispensers. Totallyyyy unnecessary aha but whatever I was like this is your thing you wanted so you handle it.

View Quoted Comment Forgot to mention - so if you are only setting up the ceremony it really wouldn't take that many people aha. It's really only because I had a diy cocktail hour and that he wanted to make his own drinks too that it took so many people. Otherwise if it was really just only the ceremony portion it wouldn't have been necessary for so many people.

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Thank you so so much! This is super helpful

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If it's not much, ask your venue to set up the décor. If not, leave notes and pictures for the groomsmen to set up.

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I will try asking. Thank you Courtney

The day before, we are ALL setting up the wedding - wedding party family, friends, and the venue. The day OF I would designate the groom/groomsmen: They usually don't have much to do considering they don't have to worry about hair and makeup!

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Hannah,

Yea that's what I was thinking. The groomsmen. Awesome! Thank you so much!