Daft Question about Venue Decoration!

I guess it might work differently for each venue, but when my friend got married at the beginning of the year, she had to drop everything for the tables at the venue a few days beforehand, with instructions, & they set up for her, but this was also due to the fact that the ceremony was in the same room as the wedding breakfast so they did it all whilst turnining the room around.

Our wedding is slightly different as it's a marquee so we'll set everything up the day before except for anything card/paper based, due to overnight condensation, & then our caterers will do the rest for us the morning of the wedding.

Our venue has said they'll put out place name cards and favours on the tables as part of the standard set up. It's worth checking with yours though.

We hoped they'd put out the centerpieces too (we're making them) and they will, but they're charging us extra for it. It's annoying because we'd rather just do it ourselves but they won't give us access early enough - so it's pay them or not have it done!

Thanks both

I was hoping that our venue would do it - I just wasn't sure if it was rude to ask! Lol

I'll email the coordinator and ask her what they usually do about it need to ask her some other stuff too haha

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I do think it depends on the venue - and these are all the questions you could ask them at your next meeting with them (I'm having my final meeting with our venue tonight and we'll be double checking everything like this).

At mine, the venue provide and dress the tables with the table cloths and cutlery etc- then we have the chair cover lady coming in either the night or morning of (depends if the room is booked the night before) and I will be assembling our ready made centrepieces and other bits and pieces, again hopefully the night before.

Are you staying at the venue the night before? You could ask them if you could set up then.

We can't set up the night before because there's a Wedding the day before

#sundayweddingproblems lol

Our next meeting isn't for a while, but I've pinged an email over so we'll see what she says

I'm sure it will be fine Stepisaur our venue sorted everything for us - any decoration we wanted putting up, coordinating set ups with our suppliers all sorted! I literally handed everything over to them & it was as I wanted it on the day! Let us know what they say xx

My venue dressers team put my name cards and favours on the tables, I just gave her them the day before x

Ah that sucks - we're getting married on a Friday, so hopefully there won't be another wedding the day before - more like just a business conference, which will hopefully mean I have access after 6pm.

I would definitely ask the question to your wedding co-ordinator- surely they are used to people asking if they have continuous weddings every night.

Our florist will do our centrepieces and candles and our caterers do the name places, favours, plates, cutlery etc. X

I would just ask My venue requested every detail about what I wanted, even the tiniest detail.. and they set it all up. However, it was a hotel so they had lots of staff. Best to ask what your wedding co-ordinator suggests.

Ours is a hotel too apparently if I leave everything with written instructions the night before, they'll sort it out

Our venue is doing everything except:

Favours

Name cards

Table names/numbers

Table confetti

They would also do the centrepieces if we were having them.