Day of Coordinator

wright944 · June 2012

Are any of you having one? If so how much are you paying?

If you aren't, who are you having help with the things a coordinator might do?

I am debating whether or not I want one. This would be something that I would pay for outside of the money that my parents are giving me.

Sjmiller418 · June 2012

I want to have one if my budget will allow it but I am waitng to get all the other big things booked and those prices finalized before finally deciding.I would like one so that no one in my family or friends has to worry about filling that role on the day of and can just enjoy the wedding.

I read in some article on the knot that i liked was that dad's make great day of coordinators because most girls tend to want their moms to be their with them getting ready. It reccommended just giving dad a list of all the things that should be happening and at what time and he can go around meeting vendors and making sure things are being done according to the list. And it gets dad to feel involved in the wedding more which I know personally my dad would like.

emilyb213 · June 2012

Our venue is run by a husband and wife who live adjacent to the venue property. The wife handles all of the event bookings and is the day of coodinator.

I'm also going to make sure my fiance's unbelievably organized sister-in-law knows the game plan for the day of, so that she can pitch in and help with stuff like setting up for the reception and deal with vendors if need be. Another one of my good friends is my point person for keeping the formal photos organized, so when a couple of the groomsmen decide to duck off and do a shot and have a smoke, she'll be there to herd them back into place. I've asked these girls to help out because I trust them and I know they have no problems bossing around perfect strangers in a tacful way.

If I didn't have a day of coordinator, I'd seriously consider hiring one, because otherwise, I'd spend the whole day stressing out over everything. Actually, even with one, I'll probably have a hard time handing over the reins because I just prefer being in charge. Of everything. Just ask my fiance, hahaha.

anastassiiat · June 2012

I think it depends, we are lucky to have a day of coordinator at our venue as a part of our package, so I've never thought whether we would have had one otherwise. And we are also using most of the preffered vendors for our venue, so they should have a pretty good idea of how to work with each other. I think if you have a lot of different vendors (i.e. if your caterer, chairs, etc. are not part of the venue) I'd say it might make sense to get a coordinator just to save yourself a headache.

sparkles776 · June 2012

We are definitely going to have one. Our venue does have a coordinator, but there are things they dont do. I really dont want to pawn off things on our family members, so I would rather just hire one. One of FSIL friends has offered to do it, but I might want to go with someone who has done it before. The one I am looking at charges 350-500 depending on the amount of people and how many hours you want them for. I think its a small price to pay to know that everything will be taken care of.

cassienoel022 · June 2012

Trust me when I say that day of coordinators are God sends! I'be been to over 30 weddings and they make such a huge difference. Also they keep weight off your shoulder. I wish I could tell you how much but I'm paying for all day coordination and wedding planning but all together it was 2000. You can probably find great coordinators for a decent price!

cnf2013 · June 2012

We have one, but she's through our venue so it's covered by the cost of the venue, so I'm not sure of the price.Sh'es also a full time coordinator, so she does more than day off things. She's awesome too. Once I have all my vendors I just her their names and contact info and she does all the coordinating from on out. She's the one we give our seating charts to and final head counts. A few months before the wedding she'll arrange our tasting, finalize our menu with us, go over all the details like lighting, table and dancefloor placement, centerpiece design, linens, etc. So we'll actually meet with her a number of time come the end of winter.

I acted as a day of coordinator for a friends wedding a few years ago. I went to the reception venue first, made sure the tables were being set up right, tablecloths went down, that the caterers were set up where they were supposed to be, etc. Then I went to the ceremony site, helped make the final decision on inside or outside ceremony since the weather looks gnarly (went with outside, the weather broke last minute), set up the chairs, etc. It was a fair amount of work. And they had a budget wedding with no centerpieces to worry about/small things like that. So it wasn't too bad. But I would seriously stress about that stuff I didn't have one and would definitely go out of my way to hire one.

rmp4996 · June 2012

I think we are going to get one. That way I don't have to be stressed worrying if flowers are done right on the tables, or if a limo is running late. She'll make sure everything runs on schedule and will reduce the amount of fighting I'll do with my mom on the day of, lol. Plus, I heat a lot of brides say that one thing they'd do differently is hire a day of coordinator to hande tips/paying people off at the end of the night, making sure everyone gets a ride home, etc.

Plus, if I do it, the lady that I will use is the same lady I bought my wedding dress from!

bar10521 · June 2012

We have one through the venue. She basically comes with it. She's been great so far and I can't imagine not having her to be honest. I'm not sure if I would have hired a DOC if one didn't come with my venue though. But thankfully all of the venues we looked at came with one.

sopraffina · June 2012

I have to hire one because my venue won't let us set up until 2 hours before the ceremony starts. I am going to put my dad in charge of the paper lanterns, though. He's always been OCD about hanging Christmas ornaments on the tree so that the different colors are evenly spread out.

The thing that stinks is that I really only need setup and cleanup, but it seems like DOC's will only do continuous time.

belle7fl · June 2012

We got lucky our venue has one and she's awesome. She already wants me to come in and start picking linens cause she's so excited. Our DJ works with her a lot so that works in our favor too. He is actually booked at our venue every weekend in June. She sets up everything, the ceremony, the flowers, the place cards we don't need to do anything which is great but I'm sure I'll still want to check the room before we start our ceremony just because I'm a little OCD.

ktwed1 · June 2012

We are lucky enough to have one at our venue.

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