How many people I need to help with ceremony?

Is your venue DIY?

For setting up the reception as well as getting the chairs put outside we will probably have 10 people. The more you have the faster it will go. Just make sure you give proper and clear directions as to how you want everything to look.

As for everything else, I have no idea. This page will be bumped and hopefully someone else can answer you.

Do you have a DOC? If not I would agree with @Melanie. It would also depend on the amount of guests you will have also.

As few as you can get away with, honestly. is this a DYI wedding where you rent an empty space?

I think it would depends on how many guest and what all do you expect them to help with .

I have been wondering about this too, our wedding is DIY. Luckily I am thinking of (if anyone wants to) the families of the BP (int he south everyone is very involved & has been asking to help) to help set up since the BP will have to be there early for pictures anyway.

I am from up north & I have never heard of the guests helping to set up (other then mother & very immedite family) However, in the south everything is a group effort. I am not making them, but I am hoping since we have to set up everything ourselves we can have myself & hubby, my folks, & my two sisters, his folks (all 4) & then if the GM show that would be three more plus their at least 1 mother & 1 wife if not 2 mother & 2 wives), so that's roughly 10-16 people. They don't have to help, & i am really only absolutely relying on him (meaning I'm planning on the amount. of time it will take for just the two of us) & me being there, but if they want to I will certainly let them!

I have done a lot of prep work in drawing & making thing as easy as possible to set up, so I am hoping this will help the day of. *fingers crossed*

Have your groomsman play double duty as ushers...thats what we're doing. And as for hosts, I think they are unnecessary (depending on the layout of the venue) as the families will most likely be congragating in a gathering area and can play host to themselves...

We ended up with:

Ceremony:

3 little girls handing out programs

1 usher

1 friend at the guest book table

1 friend at the hot drinks table offering people hot chocolate or apple cider

1 musician

4 readers

2 friends that sang

1 officiant

6 bridesmaids

3 groomsmen

1 venue coordinator to tell us when to walk out.

3 staff working the kids room during the wedding and reception

My mom welcoming people as they arrived.

Set up:

1 person to mic the space

2 photographers

1 videographer

1 venue coordinator

1 friends helping to keep things running smoothly and check on things

A catering staff

A team of maybe 20 to decorate our reception space (for roughly 1-2 hours-and then like 5 people for another 1 hour to do more details)

A team of like 4 people to set up our ceremony decorations and put out reserved seat signs

2 guys to put gifts in a car mid way during the ceremony

A team of like 10 people to take down the decor and pack it up at the end of the night

1 family member to hand out checks to some of the vendors

Another wedding I went to recently had groomsmen/ushers help set up tables in the wedding space as it was a DIY reception space, then had the brides extended family set up the decorations and DIY the day before and the day of the wedding (about 10 people), and then had about 10 of us tear down the event at the end of the night.