Friday was a crazy busy beautiful exciting day! I was hired as the "day of coordinator" for a wedding a couple months ago. The bride had all of the vendors booked, she just needed the day coordinated, timelined and needed someone to make sure everything went according to planned.
I got there, retrieved the room keys for the bride to get ready in, the groom to get ready in, and then their suite for the night. The designing team was already there, finishing up the flowers for outside for the ceremony.. and they were starting the flowers and decor for the reception. I had to make sure the favors were placed at the each table setting, make sure the table numbers were at each table, place cameras and pictures at each table. I had to set up the table for the sand ceremony out where the reception was... and at the same time had to meet and greet the bridal party and make sure they were set up in their rooms, meet and greet the vendors (my own styling team, which included Julie for make-up and Krystal for hair), the photographer, and the DJ. Then of course the place card table, guest book table, gift table, and a small table to set the programs on had to get setup. Then I had to get the bridal party and parents flowers distributed, and also make sure that the rooms they were getting ready in were completely cleared out by 5:30 (which was the ceremony start time). Let's just say it was a crazy day, and I loved every minute of it.
Then it was time for the reception to start, and the first few rows were filled. It looked like we were missing a ton of people, so I have people who wanted to wait a few more minutes, at the same time the venue coordinator is saying we need to start because of the food. SIIIIGHH Oh the joys of coordinating, but again.. LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
So the ceremony started, photographer took his pictures, reception started. A game of Simon Says was played with the 5 and 6 year-olds (twin ring bearers, and flower girl) as I was trying to line them all up to get announced into the reception. And the reception flowed pretty smoothly...
All in all.. it was a GREAT evening. No problems, no delays, and we stayed on time the entire time.. even when we started later! Thanks to the Pastor for not taking as long as he thought during the ceremony. Here's some pictures taken with my phone! =) Enjoy!!
I got there, retrieved the room keys for the bride to get ready in, the groom to get ready in, and then their suite for the night. The designing team was already there, finishing up the flowers for outside for the ceremony.. and they were starting the flowers and decor for the reception. I had to make sure the favors were placed at the each table setting, make sure the table numbers were at each table, place cameras and pictures at each table. I had to set up the table for the sand ceremony out where the reception was... and at the same time had to meet and greet the bridal party and make sure they were set up in their rooms, meet and greet the vendors (my own styling team, which included Julie for make-up and Krystal for hair), the photographer, and the DJ. Then of course the place card table, guest book table, gift table, and a small table to set the programs on had to get setup. Then I had to get the bridal party and parents flowers distributed, and also make sure that the rooms they were getting ready in were completely cleared out by 5:30 (which was the ceremony start time). Let's just say it was a crazy day, and I loved every minute of it.
Then it was time for the reception to start, and the first few rows were filled. It looked like we were missing a ton of people, so I have people who wanted to wait a few more minutes, at the same time the venue coordinator is saying we need to start because of the food. SIIIIGHH Oh the joys of coordinating, but again.. LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
So the ceremony started, photographer took his pictures, reception started. A game of Simon Says was played with the 5 and 6 year-olds (twin ring bearers, and flower girl) as I was trying to line them all up to get announced into the reception. And the reception flowed pretty smoothly...
All in all.. it was a GREAT evening. No problems, no delays, and we stayed on time the entire time.. even when we started later! Thanks to the Pastor for not taking as long as he thought during the ceremony. Here's some pictures taken with my phone! =) Enjoy!!
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