Logistics: Cleaning Up After Reception

Same situation here, we have to have everything off the roof by 10pm, but the venue has a storage room we can put everything into until Sunday morning. We are spending the night at the venue and will take it with us when we leave in our truck. I have labeled totes for everything so it will be pretty easy. The rentals will remain in the storage area for the event rental company to pick up Monday morning and all the tables and chairs belong to the venue. My DOC will oversee the set-up and tear down and I will hire a couple of people to do the actual set up and teardown of everything.

Most of the items are rentals so the vendors will take care of those. For the rest, I am sending home the gifts/cards with my son and brother. I will allow guests to take the centerpiece florals if they want. The items I bring for the centerpieces such as lanterns and candles that I want to keep or sell I am asking my WP's team to box up and someone on my FH's side will take the boxes home for us. That's the plan anyway.

We have to take everything out of venue also. I plan to put my brothers in charge of this with the help of numerous family members. I come from a family that pitches in to help each other all the time. We clean up the house of party (Thanksgiving, Christmas etc) before we leave. Not a big deal, A bunch of votives and candy buffet and few odds and ends. Table runners and a sign that says Mr and Mrs.

Usually, when it comes to picking up, you can ask your family members or bridal party to get your personal stuff. Just depends on who you know will be easiest to pick it up from

I have asked some friends to help out but unless the room is rented for the sunday am, at this time it is not, we dont have to have everything out until the sunday morning which works for me.

I am in the same predicament; however we are having a small wedding (no more than 25 guests) and we aren't having a wedding party, so I don't want to ask 10 of those guests to help. I am going to ask about 3 people to assist.

My DoC took all of our gifts/cards & major decorations like the seating chart to our hotel suite for us. The venue took care of the rest-repackaged our leftover cookies, alcohol, etc and our table decorations and kept them until Monday for us. I wasn't concerned about the paper lanterns. All in all we only lost 1 Tupperware container (MIL's...she was quite attached to it) and gained a cooler.

My mom, cousins and other family are going to be collecting all of our decor and things we brought with us. it's not much. the caterer has the rest of the clean up.

Our decorator is picking up all of the decorations, my parents will take all of the gifts, card box, guest book, etc with them as we are opening the gifts at their house the next day. I have a large family and someone will help out to cart it all out to my dad's truck.

Our caterer is doing a lot of his stuff. i may pay my DOC extra to stick around and take down the extra decor ( i want to hang up lights and do a photo booth). I am not sure what to do with taking things home yet, i may pay to keep things there overnight if i still can.

I really don't want anyone in my family to have to worry about cleaning up afterwards

My wedding ceremony and reception is in a hotel, so I know that my mother specifically is going to be taking the card box and guestbook not very long after the reception starts to put into our room because she just sees the nightmare of some ahole coming in and walking off with it since the only logical place to put it isn't very far from the front doors. All other decorations the venue collects for us, and we will probably just take them home with us on Saturday morning since we are staying the night in the hotel. Caterer/hotel cleans up the dishes, food, etc.

Same thing, our reception will end at approx. 9pm since we have to have everything out by 10pm and be off the premises. My BMs have agreed to help make sure everything gets taken care of. I've thought of "hiring" a friend or two to come to the reception to help clean up. We're still not 100% sure but we know it'll be taken care of, even if I have to do it myself.

I have a day of staff. They will decorate my venue, serve the food and clean up after. If you just need someone to pack things up and clean up after I suggest hiring someone to do it instead of asking your wedding party or guest to help. How about calling one of those maid services that's like $150 for 3 hours.

Our parent's and siblings are going to be taking care of everything that needs to be taken home after. I actually started a list, its a little early but FMIL keeps bugging me about it. I made a rough draft to make her feel better.

I was one of the MOH at a wedding two weeks ago. The bride made a list and assigned each person in the bridal party and family to collect certain items, and just sent it via text so everyone knew what they had to do after the sparkler exit.

All of our vendors include teardown in their prices, so our DOC will stay after the reception and oversee the teardown of everything. So far it seems that we'll get away with having to do nothing *fingers crossed*

Fh & I will leave the reception right when it ends, after the sparklers, in a chauffeured car. his mom & dad & the gm & best man will load up fmil's van with our centerpieces, card box, small décor items, and extra booze/sweets and take it to my place, where one of the gm will be house sitting that week anyway.

This post seems to be old but wanted guidance regarding post event cleanup. Since this post is regarding post event cleanup thought of posting here. I am eagerly awaiting for the Big Day at the same time anxious about the post event cleanup. Cleaning voluminous trash is something I loathe. I found few smart strategies in an article

http://www.redbins.ca/cleaning-large-event/ . Though it gives clear advice on strategies to be adopted before and after the event, I would like to know about post event cleaning services. I want junk removal services which would ensure best cleaning or disposal and would also like to hire rental bins for that day.

My maid of honor has become my nightmare. She has gone behind our backs and tryied to tell the wedding party that they shouldn't be expected to help tear down a few decorations afterwards. I'd like to demote her and put my oldest daughter in her spot since she has stepped up to help. What do you think?

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She's right; they shouldn't be expected to work your wedding. That doesn't make her your nightmare.