Wedding decor - Favours and place names!

Does your venue come with a co-ordinator? is it a hotel/stately home? normally the staff at the hotel do all of these. expect the decoration of course setup by your dresser.

At my sisters wedding in June I had to go and set it all out, her wedding was very expensive and although I didn't mention it to her ( I'm a very lovely sister and moh) I begrudged the hotel asking her to organise it all her self, like you don't have enough to do on your wedding day! In protest I went down and set it all up,whilst wearing my shirt from the magaluf hen party which had vatch the snatch written on the back, the wedding co-ordination kept giving me daggers but as it wasn't outright swearing she couldn't say anything to me, haha.

at my wedding next year my venue are taking care of everything, I have to drop the stuff off a few days before the wedding and I won't see any of it until it's all set up ready for the wedding breakfast and we enter as a married couple

I'm pretty sure co-ordinators or venue staff take care of all that stuff
You should double check with them to make sure, we go before hand I think and set out what we want and they take photos or something to remember then set it out the day before / morning for us.

It differs from venue to venue, everyone keeps telling me that its the venues job to do that but my venue have made it clear to me thatr they do not do any of the decor or place setting. Fair enough really as the venue itself is free but each venue is different so you need to ask them outright. If they don't then you will probably have to do what I'm doing which is to go the night before and do as much as possible then send a family member (yes probably my sister) to do the final bits whilst photos are being done

Our venue have told us we need to put a box together for each table, with a plan of where people are sitting, pic of centrepiece (if necessary) etc and they set it up.
They actually take down at midnight and set up for the next day at 1am! (poor people!)

As others have said, though, I think it varies from venue to venue. If you've hired a planner-type, but want a say in how it looks and still want to be surprised, I'd do something like I am, so you get the benefit of the end result, without having to do it yourself