Question about diy and reception logistics

You can hiring an attendant just for the morning of the wedding.

DOC can do some of that stuff.

And yes I hoarded wedding stuff in my home 😂

You could ask your DOC if this is within her scope of obligations, or see if she could add it on a la carte. I think transport will be the most difficult part if you have centerpieces etc. Make sure you have a vehicle large enough!

I've definitely been hoarding items in my apartment and my parents house. My mom, DoC, and I are going to meet about a week before the wedding to talk about set-up and put together our welcome bags. She'll take a majority of the items for the day of (favors, escort cards, programs) and bring them to set up on wedding day.

I'd talk to your DoC to see what she has done for brides before and from there you can see if you need to hire an attendant or not.

The timeline depends on your venue. Mine opens at 3 for a 5:30 ceremony. Yours might allow you to set up the night before, or you might only have an hour or so. I'd ask the venue. Maybe they also have an attendant that can help out.

My FH, his best man, my maid of honor, and my self will be doing some of the setup the morning of (primarily center pieces and a selfie station, since these are out of the scope of our day of coordinator). We'll be dropping some of these items off beforehand when we have our rehereasl but other items we'll be keeping at home until the day of.

My mom, dad and I and maybe some of the bridal party will be helping set up that morning

I had a lot of stuff for the wedding that we dropped off the Tuesday before the wedding/ceremony. But the venue came with staff, matre d and coordinator to set it all up. I just had to drop it off at a designated time and place. We went over everything, where I wanted it to be, how it was set up/what it was for. they did the rest.

I hired a DOC... she set everything up the day of. Or else it would have been so frantic

DIY means you store and you set up. Unless you hire a DOC who set up as part of the services you pay for. That's definitely one of the perks of hiring a DOC!

Yes, I am hoarding all of the candles, votives and everything else in one of our guestrooms right now (cannot wait to get that room back to normal after the wedding). We have a coordinator at the venue that will set everything up for us. I plan on taking pictures of how I want things set up and giving those to him for guidance. I also plan on organizing things into separate boxes - a box for the escort card table stuff, a box for the guest book table stuff, etc., to make it easy for him that morning.

For almost 2 years I kept all our wedding crap in our tiny, 500sqft house. I have one thing left to sell to this day and I'm SO happy to see it all gone because man was it a struggle. Clutter makes me angry.

ALL my decor was DIY and my wedding was 3.5 hours away from home. Everyone with a truck in our families took up the custom built tables, the booze canoe, the 100+ chopped logs for centerpieces, etc and kept them in their trucks until it was time to set up the venue.

We weren't allowed into the venue until noon the day of the wedding and our ceremony was at 3:00, 20 minutes away, so honestly setup was the most stressful part of my wedding day. Even with the DOC I hired (who had another person to help), it was still insane. Dads/Groomsmen helped unload and immediate family and wedding party pitched in to help setup before the ceremony.

Realistically, I should have hired multiple people for setup, I didn't realize how much STUFF there actually was and felt bad that my family/wedding party were setting up, that wasn't their job.

Definitely consider how much time you have for setup and go from there. I certainly recommend a DOC, she saved the day and finished setting up while we all had to take off to go have the ceremony.

I have a room you can barely walk in, there is so much stuff in it. I told my dad and sister we need to load up everything in their trucks the day before. We have our venue from 11am to midnight so we will be setting up. Our wedding is at 5 30. I hired a few people to clean up after.

Me and my sisters set hers up the night before. Some people call it rude to ask your wedding party to help but most weddings I've been to did this as well. Not hi g wrong with asking your friends to help. Plus who better than you to know how you really want things.

Definitely do not have family and friends set up. That shouldn't be something they do at all. I find it incredibly tacky when there's too much decor for family and friends to set up-it isn't their wedding.

I hired an event coordinating company and that came with wedding coordinators who handled all set up and tear down. My family and friends got to enjoy themselves and didn't have to do a single thing except enjoy themselves.

I have my cousins decorating for me.

We have a whole roomful of wedding stuff, since our venue only supplies tables and chairs. I currently have 136 place settings on my living room floor that need to be washed and stored (purchased from an auction for $20!!!).

We get into our venue the day before to set up, thankfully.

I am hoarding my decor at home. FHs parents live in the city we’re getting married in so we will start bringing things to their house in September. Both of Our venues are allowing us to set up on Friday before the wedding so it will be a super busy day but I am so grateful I won’t have to worry about it on the day of!

View Quoted Comment That's amazing! Congarts! I recently washed all my wine glasses and champagne flutes (Wal-Mart $11 for 12) that we're giving away for our wedding favors.

I'm storing them in the basement, my closet, under the bed, in the cupboard. Honestly I'm so ready for my wedding day bc I want the wall of giant flowers I made out of the house, all the backdrops and tablecloths out of my closet. I have a DOC and will drop off the decorations, flowers, and booze the day before

I stored everything in our house until the day before the wedding. Then the morning of the wedding my sister, nieces, and daughters and best friends all set up the wedding reception venue.

We did so much DIY, all of our stuff is hoarded at the FILs House! We like 7 hrs away from the venue (which is close you our family & friends so we decided to travel rather than make everyone else travel) they have been a God send during this wedding planning. We are doing ceremony & reception at the church we have an “event planner” who has contributed to ideas but is starting a business and she is using us as part of her “portfolio” so it’s 0 cost. But we are doing everything the morning of. The Boys will go over & set up tables & chairs then go and get changed then I will come before H&MU and set the last details out alongside FMIL, DOC,Event planner, and my BM/MOH! Good luck!

Be careful about having family and friends do this sort of thing. I flew from CA to OH for my cousin's wedding and was immediately conscripted into making centerpieces and decorating and I was NOT THRILLED. I never got a thank you or any acknowledgement from my cousin for flying across the country and then doing 6 hours of work in the hot sun the afternoon of her wedding, and that has stuck with me.