We are the wedding planning team in Davie, Florida couples call when they are deciding between a day-of coordinator and a full-service planner. Those are different hires. Mixing them up wastes a year or wastes the month you thought you had covered. Here is the distinction in the rooms we actually run — ranch lawns, hotel docks, park buildings, estate terraces. The hire you make here is the hire that shows up on Saturday. Get it right once. We will tell you plainly which one we are offering.
What full-service planning is
Full-service planning starts before the first venue tour and stays through last dance. Guest count, layout, catering cues, ceremony order, how the room feels. Rehearsal, ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner, send-off — one sequence, not five vendor arrival windows you referee from a getting-ready suite. That is starting before the first venue walk-through. We write the cue sheet. We stay on the floor. We confirm every power drop and every toast slot.
Davie weddings often split a garden or ranch ceremony from a ballroom dinner. Those two spaces do not run themselves. Full planning is the hire when you want both rooms, every vendor, and the clock in one pair of hands. If décor or lighting is part of the night, we pull from inventory we control so the look does not wait on a third arrival. Not a menu. Control of timing. Full planning also means we are in the vendor contracts early enough to catch a dock that will not take a truck, a hotel that requires their bartender, or a park that bans generators after dark. Those constraints belong on the cue sheet in month six, not the week of.
What day-of and month-of coordination is
Coordination starts when the design is already in motion. Venue booked. Caterer booked. Florist booked. You need someone to take the binder in the final month and run the day so you are not the person holding a clipboard in a wedding dress. That is running the day once the binder exists.
Month-of means we pick up the binder while there is still time to confirm every vendor, rewrite the cue sheet, and catch gaps a couple cannot see from inside the plan. We read contracts. We map load-in. We put names on the timeline. We do not reopen venue shopping. We do not start a new floral design on Friday. Day-of means we are on the floor from first vendor arrival through load-out. Ceremony cues, family photos, grand entrance, toasts, cake, last dance. You do not field texts during portraits. We do. Rehearsal, if you want us there, is part of the same job. Load-out is part of the same job. A coordinator who leaves when the cake is cut has not finished the night. A park gate and a hotel dock both punish a late truck.
Coordination is not a cheaper version of full planning. It is a different job. If you still need the room chosen and the vendors built, coordination will not invent that work in thirty days. We will say so on the first call. Month-of still includes vendor confirmation, a written cue sheet, rehearsal if you want us, and load-out. If a quote includes none of that, you are buying a title, not a coordinator. Ask what is actually in the engagement.
Where couples get stuck
They book a pretty lawn in western Davie, hire a caterer who has never used that gate, and assume the day will assemble itself. It will not. Or they hire a full planner and then keep shopping vendors in private, so nobody owns the clock. Or they want a coordinator and a brand-new design in the same month. That is planning, and it should be named planning.
Weekend guests often need a night-before gathering for out-of-town guests. That night can sit on the same cue sheet as the wedding so the two do not compete for vendors. A shower the week of the wedding is a shorter event with the same collision risk — cake, seating, and décor as three jobs. Related work. Not a substitute for the wedding hire.
How to choose, then call
If the venue is not booked and the vendor list is a blank page, you want full planning. If the room, the food, and the flowers are signed and you want a calm floor manager, you want coordination. If you are in between — a venue hold and no caterer — say that. We will tell you which engagement matches the work, not which title sounds nicer. A couple with a signed lawn and a cousin doing flowers is not coordinated. A couple with a signed lawn, a signed caterer, a signed florist, and no one to run the dock is. Bring the contracts. Bring the blank slate. Either one is enough to have the conversation. Guessing on the phone is how people buy the wrong hire.
Call (754) 484-9277 with the date and who is already booked. Call-only. No SMS. If you cannot talk now, talk through the hire on the phone or use the form — it goes to the same desk the next business morning. Have the vendor list or the blank slate. We will tell you whether we can take the date.
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