What is your day-of-coordinator doing?

Anyone?

Nothing...don't have one.

Come up with the time line for your reception so that everything that you planned goes smoothly.

I have a wedding coordinator and she is charging me $1500 for all day.

she's doing...

1. setting up our reception tables ( i'm having my reception at my church)

2. planning the timeline from hair & make up time to ceremony to reception programs)

3. she's going to be there all day beside me to make sure that everything is running smoothly, we are on time etc.

she also can assist setting up a photo table ( if you are planning to having one)

hope this helps.

I have a DOC but haven't thought about the specific tasks I would like her to do. Off the top of my head I would say making sure shes been in touch with each and every vendor that morning to make sure they're running on time, help with any set up, make sure everyone stays on time for the start of the ceremony... I'm putting this on my watchlist as I'm sure I am missing a bunch!

I have a DOC but she is taking over everything the "Month-Of". She will take over contacting all vendors from that moment forward: making sure the ceremony knows how many chairs will be needed, what time to have them set up, coordinating DJ set up for ceremony music & reception set up, giving final guest count to catered for food, setting up weekend events timeline (rehearsal-vendor arrivals-venue set-ups-start times-order of events-to clean-up). She will set up decor as we have planned at both spaces. And basically EVERYTHING! It's going to be awesome!

I have a PDF of her companies task that they are responsible for that I can email you and you can create your own from if that might help

@Snappy That would be amazing - thank you! **********@*****.***

Snappylove could you send that to me as well PLEASE? ***.**********@*****.*** - thank you!!!

I have one but she works for the venue, and will kinda be doing everything. Decorations, keeping everyone on schedule, coordinating my vendors, making the transition from ceremony to reception seamless. Etc etc etc

Everything. I will be drinking wine and getting my hair done. She is doing setup, coordination of vendors, timeline for arrival and day events, decorating.

I am so excited to just show up to everything done, and her having to run around like a crazy person that morning instead of me.

Just sent you guys an email

THANK YOU SNAPPY!

We're still working out what our DOC will be in charge of but the biggest thing for us is being a point of contact for everybody and making sure everything gets done when it needs to be done.

We're going to be sitting down and drawing up a detailed list of everything she'll need to do so I'm just going to lurk awhile longer... take some notes.. lol

Helped create our timeline.

Confirmed vendors the week of.

Ran our rehearsal and made suggestions for where readers should stand, processional, recessional.

Met my dad at the venue the day of to get all of our dresses into the bridal suite.

Decorated for the ceremony.

Decorated for the reception.

Worked with the DJ to make sure we were all on the same page about schedule of reception events.

Made sure we were fed.

Made sure we were hydrated.

Fielded any questions from vendors.

Made sure the vegetarian guests got the modified passed hor dourves.

Packed up all of the decor, gifts and cards at the end of the night and made sure it was put in my dad's car.

I had such a smooth day thanks to her.

The restaurant where we're getting married has an events coordinator, but to be honest, I can't quite get out of her exactly what she'll be doing. She says she'll be there, but hasn't really assured me how much she'll be doing to get the processional in order, help set up, etc. The entire thing has really been DIY for us. There's nothing in the ceremony or reception that wasn't made or put together by myself and my family. And everything is gorgeous! I'm pretty proud of us.

I'm hiring the officiant's assistant to come out for an extra $50 (at that price it was a no brainer), because I know she's going to help tell my MOH and the flower girl & ring bearer when to walk. I felt like if I didn't hire her, no one would know when to walk the aisle. She's giving me more info to go off right now so she got hired. She will also assist my dad's friend, who is in charge of playing all of our CDs in correct time and order.

Anything I need on the day of. I included delivery, set up, and break down in all our vendor quotes so that's already taken care of.

Helped organize all centerpieces and decor (this was a week before)

Fielded questions from vendors the week of

Ran our rehearsal and helped during the rehearsal dinner

Decorated for the ceremony and reception (she didn't need to set up tables/chairs because I hired a staff person from the venue to do that)

Worked with the DJ to make sure we were all on the same page about schedule of reception events.

Made sure there was food from the cocktail hour for the bridal party during the photography session

Made sure we were fed (reminded the caterer to feed us) and keep our drinks filled and that we had water

Packed up all of the decor, gifts and cards at the end of the night and made sure it was put in my car

Cleaned up the venue with my volunteers at the end of the night

My DOC was amazing and was the best money I could spent. If there was an issue, I had no clue about it because she handled it perfectly!

Oh gosh, I didnt really think I wanted/needed a DOC but now I'm having second thoughts.

I think my reception venue has someone for me the day of but now I'm concerned about the church!

@Jade- I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend a DOC. I am so thankful I had my DOC because she handled so much and did so much for me. I was so fortunate that she was so organized and ready to take on whatever happened. I was completely relaxed the entire morning/afternoon while getting ready. I didn't even need to go to the venue in the morning to check it out, but wanted to only see what it looked like. I had complete confidence that she had everything handled.

I found this link online because I'm currently searching for one for the ceremony part of my day because the venue has one in the package.

hope it helps!

http://www.theweddingsitter.com/day_of_coordinator.html

Our venue's wedding package includes DOC. We will bring everything over the night before and they will decorate the space, set up the tables, guestbook, escort cards, ceremony space and decor, card box on gift table, etc.