Acceptable for me to deliver uncontested divorce paper to spouse?

My wife and I are separating and we are on good terms. I filed for an uncontested divorce, which she knows about and agrees with. I have the paperwork that I filed along with the summons that the court clerk told me had to be served on my wife. She said I was not allowed to serve the papers because I’m a party to the case, but it will cost me money to hire a private server. My wife says she will just stop by my apartment and pick up the papers and then go to court to file her response. Is that acceptable or will that somehow hold up the divorce?