
Day-Of Wedding Coordination

Pre Wedding (2 weeks prior to date)
- Planning meetings (limited to 1), phone calls, and e-mails necessary to finalize wedding details
- Review detailed itinerary checklist with bride to confirm all desired wedding-weekend requirements
- Obtain copies of all vendor contracts
- Contact all vendors and inform them of Belle of the Ball assistance
- Confirm all contract details (deliveries, set-up times, dismantling times, etc.)
- Provide final headcount to catering manager by due date and reconcile needed quantities of centerpieces, linens, chairs, menus, programs, and favors
- Plan ceremony and discuss family information, pew seating, processional and recessional order
- Prepare detailed wedding day itinerary; distribute to all vendors.
- Obtain all personal items from bride (guest book, pen, bridal portrait, toasting flutes, sign-in book, cake knife, menu cards, table numbers, escort cards, favors, programs, etc.) and transport to ceremony and reception venue where appropriate. Set up these items on event day.
- Attend ceremony rehearsal and coordinate ceremony
Wedding Day
- Complete wedding day coverage:
- Manage wedding day timeline
- Manage vendor set-up at ceremony site and reception venue
- Setup alphabetized escort cards, guest book and pen, bridal portrait or other special photos, toasting flutes, cake knife & server, table numbers at reception site
- Distribute final vendor balances
- Coordinate transportation
- Manage hair and makeup schedule
- Deliver bridal gown ceremony site
- Assist bride and wedding party in dressing room prior to ceremony
- Deliver wedding programs to ceremony site
- Distribute personal flowers (bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, etc.)
- Coordinate and time ushers, house party, readers, ceremony musicians, parents/grandparents, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and bride and groom
- Check couple into honeymoon suite; arrange for overnight bags to be delivered to room
- Bustle bride's dress and arrange for refreshments upon couple's arrival to reception
- Coordinate entertainment and all announcements and events throughout the evening (special dances, cake cutting, toasts, bouquet toss, couple's exit etc.)
- Collect all gifts and personal items