Volunteer/help Signup

Omg, please don't do this. That's nice that people are offering to help. Politely decline and tell them you want them to be guests at your wedding. Not free help.

In my experience, people often say they want to help or to let them know what they can do, but as the event gets closer, they lose enthusiasm for working the event when they should be getting ready and having fun. Hire someone for set up and clean up. Reliable high school and college students work cheap. Hire a DOC.

Sure, you can create a sign up, but don't be surprised if you don't get many takers.

I think oftentimes people have the best intentions in offering help but don't actually follow through. You should probably invest in hiring a crew and DOC to manage these tasks for you.

Yeah, don't do this. The offer is nice, but let your guests be guests. If they decide that day to come early and offer to help or stay late and do the same, that's great. But don't have an actual volunteer sign up.

Are you sure they are asking to help the day of? And not with planning/shopping/DIYing prior? Most guests won't want to have a job at your wedding, since they are guests. Can you hire a day of coordinator to handle that instead?

I'm talking about aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors etc that have offered to help.

I was thinking the web signup - will weed out the people who are serious and those that aren't and just offering to help in small talk. I've been that "relative/friend etc" that wanted and said I would help in the end wasn't asked or told when to come - then I was disappointed. I was hoping this would allow people to choose what they wanted to help with - as well as give them information (times, responsibilities etc) without me calling each of them individually.

I have a day of coordinator already.

I don’t think this is very appropriate for a wedding. I find a lot of times when people offer “help” like this, they more mean they could share an opinion or some advice, not manual labor. Your wedding guests are guests— their only job should be to enjoy your party. As soon as you’re using aomeone’s time/money/physical labor, you really owe them something in return, even if it was “voluntary”. There’s also a big difference between like a girl’s night crafting (you provide wine and pizza and y’all work on DIY stuff while socializing) and asking people to clean up. Clean up crew at a wedding means those people don’t get to enjoy the party.

My FH and I are having a small ceremony. We have already asked his Brothers to do our chair set up and take down, my mom's best friend is going to be my reception coordinator because she doesn't need to be in the photos and the reception going to be a different location then the ceremony. I think knowing your audience is a big part of knowing how to go about them helping or if they are actually going to follow through with helping.
I wouldn't have second cousins and friends from work and what not helping with my wedding but I also have some pretty serious control issues so when the brothers asked how they could help it was really easy to say hey we need this little bit of manual labor the day of do you mind because I will be in a ball gown and he will be in a suit. They were Overjoyed that they got to help somehow.
I don't think I would go as far as a volunteer spot sign up. But again I'm having a very small ceremony.

We have a larger wedding. However we only get the venue to start setting up at 8am the day of the wedding. It was going to be an additional $900 to rent it the night before so their is a time crunch and we need a lot of people to help. Photos start at 1pm.

The ceremony is outdoors so we will have 300 chairs to set up in addition to decorating. Lots to do in a short amount of time.

Personally, I would be turned off if I offered to help someone set up for their wedding and they directed me to an online sign up sheet.

Could you just just keep a list of people who offered to help and then email or call them beforehand and say “If you’re still able to help, we’re meeting at this place at this time”

Hi Lindsey,

Crowd sourcing tasks may not be the best way to go- instead, wait until a family member or friend takes issue with their lack of involvement and then give them a job!

If hat doesn't happen, did you know you can add users to your WeddingWire account and they can help with your WeddingWire checklist?

Are you doing set up/clean up the day of? We went to a wedding where they had to take EVERYthing that same night and all the guests (mostly close friends) had to do it. I did not mind helping, as my FH was in the wedding, but some prep would have been nice (I would have brought other shoes).

I want to volunteer at a event planning venue that is near me I live in Lake Elsinore