Who should do what on the wedding day?

In my culture we have people assigned to a sign in table. So my bridesmaids were the ones assigned to help and translate to older guests in my home language. The groomsmen were helping me with clean up of ceremony.

We hopefully won’t have any tasks left to compete the day of the wedding except for setup and tear down, which our DOC will be handling. What duties are you talking about?

I didn't put anyone in charge of anything on the day of besides our DOC, caterer, and venue event manager. I didn't want to assign duties to family or friends.

View Quoted Comment What is a DOC😅 and so I dont need to worry about having other people doing anything?

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Day of Coordinator! We hired a month of coordinator actually. Our bridesmaids were told to be downstairs at 10 AM to head to the venue (with their dresses) and the GM at 2 PM. Other than that, it was basically just "show up" since we hired people to do everything else.

I do t have a DOC, so I gave out duties such as set out favors and centerpieces; watch the card box; make sure we get the cake topper back wrx

I don’t have a bridal party. My very best friend is my “first assistant to the bride”. Haha

we also have 3 older kids between us (22, 19 an 16) who will be pitching in. We are very lucky to have very supportive and helpful families.

It really depends on what all your vendors will or will not do. Some bakers will also cut the cake but some don't. Also, does the venue have a coordinator? Have you created a timeline for the day to give to the bridal party and vendors?

Pick a few dependable people close to you and give them specific things so they know how to be of help

I didn’t have many tasks to give out because I had a day of coordinator to take care of that. I had one of my maid of honor (the bossy one) and one of my bridesmaid take care of family photos. So I gave them a list with names and order for them to get together and it went so smoothly.
The groomsmen were in charge of welcoming guest and helping the elderly people out of the bus and direct everyone to the ceremony area.
And all bridesmaid to make sure people were using our polaroid guest book and for everyone to have a good time. My girls are all fun so it wasn’t much of a task to make sure people would hit the dance floor with us.

What kind of duties do you need to assign?

I'm not sure my venue has a team taking care of everything so idk what there is to do.. that's why I started this discussion

I just got done planning my sister’s wedding and had everything written down and planned in advance. I think the best way to approach this is to write down absolutely everything that needs to get done and assign people to each of those tasks. It will really help you judge who you trust to handle each item. At the end of the day, you have to delegate, but it also puts in perspective what you care more about.

View Quoted Comment Thank you that is really good advice! I'm definitely going to do that! Thank you thank you!!

I'm giving my moh a list of vendors so I dont have to worry abt anything. Other than that I only want them to show up and eat lunch.

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That might be a good place to start - find out what your venue takes care of (setting tables, linens, etc) and what needs to be done (centerpieces, favors, whatever) and work backwards from there.