Village Hall Wedding

Hi there!

I've seen some fantastic DIY village hall weddings. They seem to bring out the creative side in brides and grooms with so much more opportunity for personal touches.

It's good that you're already thinking about moving tables - it's little things like that that people often forget about when there's not venue staff around. If you have bar staff, I'm sure thy would help, also it's a perfect job to get ushers involved. Also myself and my assistant (as singer/DJ) would normally muck in and help with clearing the room when there's no venue staff etc to do it.

James

We're having our wedding breakfast and evening do in a village hall, the caterers that we have got are amazing and basically are like the staff you'd have in a hotel and do all change over etc in their cost, I think they must do so many weddings they know the type of stuff that would be asked if them. If they didn't we were going to have our friend who will be in the mc to clear the room of ppl then get the ushers to take down a couple of tables for the evening do x

If your caterers/other suppliers cant do it, do you have any guests with older teenage children that could help (maybe for a little cash in hand) or someone that lives nearby that isn't attending?

As long as whoever is doing it knows beforehand, because they might want to get changed, rather than getting dust/trestle table grease on their nice clothes.

I think it depends on budget, it you can afford it you could get people in to dress it then pay your caterers to move the room around for the evening.

We are having our reception in a community centre and am on a tiny budget so we're getting the bridal party to help us set up the night before.

On the day we're keeping the tables the same all day so they don't need moving, again bridal party will help lay out food and anything like that.

Then at the end they will help us take everything down and pack up. We're paying the venues cleaners to do the hovering and things like that.

No one minds and I think they like being involved. I'm making a wedding folder which I'll hand over to sister on the day with everything in so everyone knows what needs doing.