Setting up.

I know how you feel because I would like to be able to set our room up myself too but it's not possible. I have a lady going in to put sashes on the chairs so she is going to set our room up, together with the venue staff. OH is delivering all our decorations first thing in the morning and leave it with them. My plan is to set everything up as a practise at home and take photo's of it all that we can print and put in the boxes with the decorations so the venue and chair sash lady are able to see exactly how we want it all to look.

You´re not being bridezilla at all! (Or if you are, that makes two of us ?).

I´m a bit worried about this too as, realistically, I´m going to have to leave it to somebody else, which I´m not too happy about as I´m a control freak and terrible at delegating!

I think the best you can do is to bag / box everything up and label it clearly. Maybe you can speak to the people at the venue in the morning or the day before and explain exactly how you want everything setting up? Then maybe get your mum or bridesmaid to go into the room once it´s set up and check everything?

You could also take photos of how you want things setting up (although maybe this is going too far!?) Then again, I remember a "top tip" that one bride gave was to give the venue a Powerpoint presentation of how she wanted everything doing!

Glad its not just me that worries about things like this!

The photo option is a good idea, we're not having that much on the tables anyway so it shouldn't be too complicated for them.

The other thing i was worried about is the table names - i'll put all the place cards in the right order with the table number in separate bags for each table but i'm just worried they'll somehow get mixed up or the tables will be in the wrong place - eg people i want to be on tables near the front will be put at the back and vice versa. Guess i'll just have to hope for the best and change it when we go in if i have to.... i'm guessing i won't really notice or care that much anyway! ?

Why don´t you draw a plan of where the tables should be?

I´m planning on doing this with the chairs for the ceremony, as I want certain seats reserving for certain people.

I'm a total control freak thanks to having generalised anxiety (getting therapy to try and sort it out), so this is freaking me out! I want to be able to set up myself, but the hotel is pretty much booked back to back, and as far as I know there's a wedding the night before, then I get married at 12 noon so there's just no time, it's not physically possible! I try not to think about it, but basically I think it'll be down to my venue dresser and the wedding team at the hotel to set up. They will be under the strictest of instructions though lol ?

I've got to take everything to the venue the day before and they are going to set it up. I'm going to do photos of my centrepieces to ensure they are set up right, and write instructions for everything else. I'm also going to make sure oh knows exactly how it has to be and he is going to get there early to check everything. I am a complete control freak when it comes to things like this because I am currently working towards my own business as a venue decorator/coordinator, so it really does have to be perfect or I will go totally bridezilla! I am worried about it, as their is a lot of little details which could easily be forgotten, but are important to the whole thing (in my eyes anyway!)

Our hotel is setting up our room for us but OH has said as he knows i want it a certain way he will go in the room before he gets ready to check it is up to my standards. we are also having a box per table to give to the hotel staff so that it is easier for them to set up. that way i know all the right names will be on the right table

Because the ceremony will be happening in the reception room and then it gets changed we won't be able to see the room beforehand but the venue people have said they'll take us in for a sneak peek before all the guests to make sure its as we want it so i guess thats a good thing.

I'm so relieved our venue has two rooms and we have the ceremony in one room and the wedding breakfast in another. This means I can set up the wedding breakfast room either the night before (if no other wedding) or on the morning of the wedding. I'm stopping there the night before so will be around. Well it's actually the venue dressers mostly setting it up but I can make sure things are as I want them to be and place names etc are where they should be.

We are doing 10 boxes with everything we per a table need in them for them to be set up, we shall also number them so that they r in line with our table plan as we are just numbering the tables not doing names, if we where having names we would write the table names on the box, toying with the picture idea but it is not very complicated (mirror, 4 candles and a bowl with sweets in it) so we probably wont bother. I may send a bridesmaid in on our way out just to have a little check as we are getting married in a church but getting ready in the house so this should work I hope!!