Diy worth the headache??

Hey Melissa! Welcome to our DIY group! I'm so happy you'll be joining us! I think it can definitely give great results! You can take a look at this wedding for instance: 8 months of DIY and this is how it looked like

Here are few ideas you could do too: DIY activities you can do with your bridesmaids

What type of decor ideas do you have? I can't wait to see them!!!!

I would agree with Lesley. If you cannot guarantee that you will have the time to set it up the day before, or even if you feel like making a lot of stuff will overwhelm you, maybe you should pay the little bit extra and buy things. We are planning to DIY our centerpieces and our wedding favours so far. Not sure if we will add any other projects to that.

Although I haven't been married yet, I have been an event planner for 8 years so I have experience with this.
Unless you can guarantee you can set everything up the day before, I would think really carefully about any day-of set up. Usually a venue can help our out centrepieces and favours as long as that's easy to do.
That said, I'm planning to decorate myself with some friends but I'm eliminating anything that will be too time consuming because I'm not sure when I can get in there. Sometimes less is actually more.
I'm still planning to DIY my centrepieces and maybe a backdrop as well as set up everything the day of.
What are you planning to set up yourself on the day? It's definitely doable as long as it's a simple list and everyone is assigned specific tasks.