Did you do a seating chart for your reception?

I did because we had a plated meal. But even if I didn’t have a plated meal I would to save money, because if you don’t you need 20% more tables/chairs/place settings etc. Adults don’t seat themselves efficiently and will leave empty chairs or grab chairs from a different table. As a guest I always prefer being assigned a table because it’s less stressful.

We are doing a seating chart. It saves money and saves our guests a headache. I'd much rather do an hour of work than put our guests in the awkward position of trying to find seats.

I'm only having 65 people. There's no point in a seating chart. Adding 20% more chairs is nothing as my venue doesn't charge per chair for the meal. We're doing a buffet. If I had more guests, especially more than 100 I'd at least assign tables.

We did escort cards to make sure families could be ensured a seat together. I would have hated for a family to get split up if they couldn't find seats together.

We’re not doing a seating chart. Mainly because we’re having a buffet style food. Also the church has plenty of tables/chair for us.

We're doing a seating chart for several reasons. 1) It's more efficient for guests to find seats 2) guests aren't taking chairs from other tables and creating odd numbered tables and 3) our caterers need to be aware of those with certain allergies so that they can be served dinner properly.

I’m not sure if I am Doing one or not I kind of want my family to blend with his but do to a language barrier I feel it will be divided anyway

I will be. I want to make sure that dominoes don’t get separated and I want to make sure people aren’t pulling up chairs to other tables. It also makes it easier because I know how many children are at each table so I can tell the venue gown many crayon packs and activity pages per table

I did a seating chart because giving table assignments at least makes it more orderly

We are...against my general feeling about them...because of the meal and waitstaff knowing what people ordered.

Guests do not get to sit where they want if you have no table assignments. They sit where they can find open seats, and not be told, oh sorry, we are saving seats (making some people feel like they are at HS cafeteria). I don't see a need for seat assignments, unless venue requires it, I do think that guests prefer table assignments. And please, do not do table assignments just for VIPs. Some friend of my you moms will have to be told, nope, you do not get to sit here. Instead of, we have reserved a seat for you at Table 8.

I’m not doing one. There will only be about 30 people there, including us. There will be enough space for 48 people in the pavilion. I think that’s enough that no couple (no kids coming) will get separated.

Our families have a lot of bitter divorces and they need table assignments so everyone has a predetermined place.

I'm not doing a seating chart or assigned seat placement for several reasons
1.) Its a lot of work and unnecessary stress. Especially if someone doesn't show up when they said they'd be there or they did when they said they wouldn't or they brought a date when they said they were coming alone.
2.) His family doesn't pay attention to where they're told to sit anyways and would be moving chairs and place cards around, so why go through all that stress?
3.) The way my venue is set up the chairs/tables/setting/linings are all included in the base fee. Whether we have 10 people or 175 we pay the same price.
4.) Also with our venue, we're having a plated meal with two options, so their only thing is we need to color code the place cards to alert the staff as to who gets what choice.
I've been a guest to weddings held at my venue several times, and for me it was more relaxing when it was open seating. Maybe it's a midwestern things but my crowd prefers open seating and being treated like an adult.

I'm not doing one. We will probably have upwards of 200 people, but we aren't doing a sit down dinner - just a dessert bar. I'm only getting enough tables to seat about 130 people. Our wedding party will get a head table seat to put their stuff, and the parents/grandparents will have a reserved table, but otherwise, it'll be a casual back yard wedding so people will be milling around. I don't anticipate every person to be seated eating desserts all at once - there will be yard games/camp fire/bridal games all going on at the same time.

I did one and it worked really well. We had around 55 people come to our wedding. We had a healthy mix of single individuals and families/ couples. I think everyone got to mingle well with who they sat with for dinner.

We did have an open bar so by 9 pm everyone was either outside in the main hallway enjoying a drink or sitting at table talking with other guests.

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I was just going to make a post about this, after looking at Pinterest I have been wanting a "pick a seat, not a side, we are all family" sign or something like it and not having assigned seats. But after talking with my fh he said something about having assigned seats because of his parents being divorced and the families can't be near each other. The majority of our guests will be family members, I am only inviting a handful of friends/co workers who might only know either their plus one or other Co workers, so I would expect them to stick together. I wanted to have just a sweetheart table rather than having a head table with bridal party(my party is extremely small only MoH and 2 groomsman so far) and parents of the bride and groom, but he explained if we had assigned seating it wouldn't put his brother (1 of the groomsmen) in a rough place of who to sit with, whether their dad's side or their mom's side.

I’m doing a seating chart for my wedding in a week and 6 days! It actually only took maybe 2 hours total to finalize it. It’s going to save us money because we won’t have to decorate as many tables since we’re using real linens and placing our favors at the seats.
I agree that people are adults and should be able to find a seat but truth of the matter is that it does make people feel anxious and stressed to find an open seat and I don’t want my guests to feel that way as soon as they enter.
I didn’t stress myself out when assigning tables because they’re adults and can sit next to a stranger or who ever for a little bit during the ceremony and dinner 🤷🏼‍♀️

I will have one.

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