Create a Wedding Seating Plan
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If you're planning a seated wedding breakfast, your guests will enjoy dining with compatible and stimulating people. Here's our tips to ensure you everything goes to plan.....
1. Keep a note of evey acceptance card and verbal confirmations you have from wedding guests to make sure everyone is accounted for, including members of the wedding party, as well as their spouses and children.
2. List the names of couples and their small children in groups, so you can seat the family together.
3. If you are having a head table, list those who will sit there. You will want their spouses or partners seated at a table nearby. It is also thoughtful to consider who would want to be facing your top table.
4. With the help of your chosen wedding venue, draw a diagram of your reception venue.
Indicate the locations of the tables, the band or DJ, the cake, buffet tables and so forth. Your venue will also point out exit points and the corrrect amount of spacing inbetween tables.
Keep in mind that elderly people or those with hearing problems probably won't enjoy sitting next to the speakers; pregnant women may want to be close to the bathrooms; and disabled people will need appropriate access and accommodations.
5. Write down each table number, followed by lines equal to the number of seats available at the table (usually 8 or 10).
6. You do not always have to seat guests together who have met each other previously, but shared interests or similar characters are a good idea.
Family member often like to sit together, especially if people have travelled a fair way to be there. However old school friends can be mixed up with new work friends, or university friends. Many of your guests will have met at the stag and hen parties anyway!
6. Make signs bearing the name or number for each table and assign someone to place the signs as you have indicated on your diagram.
7. Provide a copy of this diagram to the reception in case there is a question....the last thing you want is to have to answer quereis about your table plan on the day of the wedding.
8. The most important thing is that you can look around on the day and see the people who are important to you having a good time. Here are some ideas for if you want to get your guests talking......
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