Day-of Wedding Planner Cost: AU, US and UK Ranges

A day-of wedding planner costs around $1,500 to $2,000 in Australia, $1,600 in the United States, and from £1,000 in the United Kingdom, based on surveys and industry reports published in 2025 and 2026.¹²³ These figures cover execution-only coordination: a professional who takes the run sheet already built and manages the day against it. Add full-service planning and the fee roughly triples in every market.

What a day-of coordinator does

A day-of coordinator handles the twelve-hour window of the wedding itself. The week before, they confirm arrival times with each supplier and walk through the venue. On the day, they work from the run sheet - cueing the ceremony, moving guests between locations, redirecting timing when a speech runs long, and releasing each vendor at the close of the night.

Two Australian wedding planners, quoted by Easy Weddings, put it plainly: "Most venues and wedding planners will create a detailed run sheet for you."⁶ The work is execution, not design.

What they do not do at day-of rates: supplier sourcing, contract review, budget management, or venue styling. Those belong to a month-of or full-service engagement and are priced accordingly.

What a day-of coordinator costs in Australia

Easy Weddings puts a day-of coordinator at around $1,500 to $2,000 AUD - the only Australian price guidance currently available from a published source.¹ That sits at roughly 4% to 5% of the average Australian wedding spend of $38,252.⁵ Full-service planning, covering supplier selection, budgeting, logistics and styling, runs $5,000 to $6,000 AUD. Hourly consultations for couples who need help on one specific decision sit at $75 to $100 per hour.¹

Easy Weddings' figures are editorial guidance from Australia's largest wedding marketplace - what couples are guided to expect when requesting quotes, not a national survey average of actual spend.

What a day-of coordinator costs in the US

The Knot's 2026 Real Weddings Study, drawn from 10,474 US couples who married in 2025, puts day-of coordinator spend at an average of $1,600 USD.² Day-of is the most common choice: 37% of couples who hired any professional planning help chose a day-of coordinator, ahead of full-service planning at 33% and month-of coordination at 17%.²

The spend distribution is wide. The lower quartile paid around $700, the median $1,400, and the upper quartile $3,300.² Guest count moves the average: weddings with fewer than 50 guests paid an average of $1,700 for a coordinator, while those with over 100 guests paid $2,300.²

What a day-of coordinator costs in the UK

Hitched lists on-the-day coordinators as typically starting from around £1,000, with some planning packages opening at £500.³ Bridebook's 2026 UK Wedding Report, drawn from around 7,000 couples, records an average planner spend of £1,543 - though that figure blends partial and on-the-day services and sits well below what full-service practitioners charge.⁴ Full-service planning from practitioners quoted by Hitched carries a minimum of £5,000.³

What moves the price

Guest count. More guests means more suppliers to brief, a longer run sheet to manage, and more moving parts between ceremony and reception. In the US, the gap between under-50 and over-100 guest weddings is $600 on the average day-of coordinator fee.²

Location. London-based coordinators run about 30% above the UK national average across every supplier category.⁴ Within Australia, a Sydney coordinator typically quotes higher than one working regional Queensland.

What the coordinator brings. A coordinator who writes the run sheet as part of their service prices differently from one who executes a run sheet you hand over. The latter is the cheaper arrangement; the former is adding planning hours to the execution fee.

Hours in scope. UK coordinators typically work 10 to 20 hours across an on-the-day engagement, not just the wedding day itself - the week-before supplier briefs and venue walk-through are included.³

The run sheet your coordinator works from

The value of a day-of coordinator depends directly on the quality of the run sheet they are handed. A coordinator who arrives on the morning and has to reconstruct timing from scattered emails is doing month-of work at day-of rates.

PlannedBy generates a full wedding run sheet from a single input - the ceremony time. It derives getting-ready, departure, guest arrival, family photos, reception and send-off times in sequence, and the document can be shared with every supplier from one link. The free version is available at /run-sheet-generator without an account.

Frequently asked questions

What does a day-of wedding planner cost in Australia? Easy Weddings guides couples to expect $1,500 to $2,000 AUD for day-of coordination. Full-service planning runs $5,000 to $6,000 AUD. Hourly consultations cost $75 to $100 per hour.¹

What does a day-of coordinator cost in the US? The Knot's 2026 Real Weddings Study puts the average at $1,600 USD, with a median of $1,400. The lower quartile paid around $700 and the upper quartile around $3,300.²

What is the difference between day-of and month-of coordination? A day-of coordinator steps in during the final week before the wedding - confirming suppliers and running the day. A month-of coordinator also handles supplier handovers, final payments and logistics across the four preceding weeks. The Knot's study shows month-of averaging $2,400 against $1,600 for day-of.²

What does a day-of coordinator actually do? They confirm supplier arrival times the week before, execute the run sheet on the day, manage timing adjustments when the ceremony or speeches run long, and release vendors at the end of the night. Budget management, supplier sourcing and contract review sit outside the day-of scope.

Why do 37% of couples use a day-of coordinator? That figure comes from The Knot's 2026 Real Weddings Study of 10,474 US couples who married in 2025.² Among those who hired any professional planning help, day-of coordination was the most common type - more than full-service planning or month-of arrangements.

Do I need a run sheet before booking a coordinator? Most coordinators expect one to be largely complete before they arrive. Some produce it as part of the engagement at a higher rate; others take the document you hand over and execute it. Either way, the standard day-of fee does not include building the run sheet from scratch on the morning.

What to decide next

The typical day-of coordinator fee - $1,500 to $2,000 in Australia, $1,600 in the US, from £1,000 in the UK - represents a fraction of overall wedding spend. The decision after knowing the price is what level of service matches what you have already built. If the run sheet, vendor briefs and timing are solid before the coordinator walks in, the day-of fee buys clean execution. If those documents are still being assembled in the final days, a month-of engagement - roughly $800 to $1,000 more in the US data - starts earlier and addresses the gaps before they become problems on the day.