Really silly question I know...

Surely you would have asked the venue if they set the things up for you??? I wouldnt assume ANYTHING. The fact they are your centrepieces & decorations, I would think the venue assume you are putting them up! Just ask the venue.

At our venue, I provided the centrepieces. The venue set up the tables, cutlery & all the things we paid for, but, I had aunts & my mum set out the centrepieces & flowers as we provided those.

Our venue is letting us have the main room (where we are having the WB and evening doo) from the friday afternoon. Then, we can go in and decorate it, and they will take it all down the day afterwards for us.

If you want to make sure everything goes where you want to, I would make a very detailed plan, or ask if you could set up the room the day before like I am.

Good luck x

I would think that if you are supplying the decor then it is up to you to set it up, or pay someone to do so for you.

Ok, thanks, I can't remember what they said so I guess I'll just find out nearer the time. When we were selecting the venue it wasn't actually something I'd even considered, not particularly knowing what went into planning a wedding at that early stage. Since they are switching the room over I suppose I was just working on the assumption that would include putting out a few vases of flowers and things too, but clearly I need to check.

Thanks

My venue will arrange the tables and put the table cloths on and arrange the place cards. My decorations supplier will do the chair covers and light canopy and my florist will do the centre pieces. All 3 know eachother very well so i'm sorted..

I had thesame query so just asked my venue. As we are getting married in the same room, this cannot be set up te night before and instead will be setup my the venue whilst we are having our photos done.

The chairs covers will be done in the morning as these are needed for th ceremony. THe suppliers come and fit thesefor us.

They have said we can give the detailed instructions and even pictures of exactly what we want and where we want them and they will do it all. Think my mum will pop her head in quick just to make sure it is ok.

Ooh ok thanks, I'm checking with the venue now! It won't be the end of the world if they don't, but I'm glad I actually thought of this now so that I can sort something out. I'm having the chair covers done by the supplier, but a friend is making the centrepieces and I hadn't really thought about who would put them out. It seems a bit mean to make her do it after all her hard work making them!

If the venue can do it, I agree it´s a great idea to give them photos of how it should look.

If not, I´m sure the friend who made the centrepieces wouldn´t mind setting them up with your mum. If I´d gone to the trouble of making them for a friend´s wedding, I would want to check that they look at their best, so would be happy to be asked!

I guess so, but I'm just concerned because we only have the time for the photos for the venue to be set up - so whoever was involved would miss out on the photographs! I might have to agree with the venue to give us an extra 15 minutes after the photographs, as I wouldn't want anyone to miss being in them, least of all one of my close friends. But we'll see what they say anyway, it might not be an issue at all.

And yes, excellent idea on taking photographs! Luckily we have a round dining table, so I should be able to mock something up really easily and it would put my mind at rest giving such clear instructions.

The good news is that I was worrying over nothing, as the venue will do everything for me! Thanks for all the comments and ideas though xx

I doubt there would be a venue worth its salt that would make the Bride set up the room on the big day!

Ours set it all up for us, I boxed everything up with photos and plans of how I wanted the room to look and they did a fab job.

Why dont you just ring them and find out? Out your mind at rest that way.

That's great news!

See - ours would. It's a big old charitable trust building with only a caretaker on shift (he is about 90), so it is completely dry hire in the strictess sense of the word. They have just under 200 weddings booked for this year though, so they are very popular despite this. Thankfully, our caterers specialise in this venue, doing over 50% of its weddings, and so they have a venue decorator that they work with who will do all this stuff for us. I have heard brides on here talk about going to the venue the night before the wedding to do chair covers, etc. so I guess it does happen.