How are you letting guests know where they are sitting for the reception?

We did escort cards - pretty standard procedure for weddings in our area. At the entry we just had one table with tent-cards with everyone's name and table assignment.

We had escort cards on a wall like this.

We are doing place cards. Seating charts can be really pretty, but they’re difficult to make changes to once they’re finished.

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Hey Melissa, Thank you. I have never been to a wedding that had assigned tables so I wasn't sure.

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Hello Kelly, I love the way that looks. You're wedding must have been gorgeous Thank you for the help.

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Hey Caytlyn, thank you for the help. I was worried that a chart would just feel confusing.

We did escort cards and they were arranged on a table in alphabetical order. Outside of the card said the persons name and inside of the card said table #

We're doing a big chart, which will be right at the entrance to the reception room. I have the design for it, but won't actually fill it in until we get our RSVPs back.

View Quoted Comment This is exactly what I'm doing as well.

I did escort cards and set them up in alphabetical (NOT TABLE NUMBER) order on a couple of tables that ppl had to walk by on their way into the reception.

Went to a family wedding a few years ago with a similar situation and no assigned seating... SO MUCH DRAMA so I empathize with you girl! As a guest I prefer escort cards because you can drop it down at your spot and “claim” your seat, then go to the bar, mingle during cocktail hour, etc. and have a place to go back to. Also helpful if you only know one other person at the table—you can both make sure you’ll be next to each other. I’ve been to a few weddings with big seating charts at the entrance and that worked out okay too, but they were also smaller weddings. I’ve also heard that it can be a pain if you have to make last minute changes due to cancellations/late RSVPs. Also if you’re doing a plated style meal your caterer will likely require escort cards so they can easily determine who ordered what. Hope this helps!

At cocktail hour, I'd have a seating chart listed so people can see!

We are attaching our place cards to our favors, and will have them on a table in numeric order in the cocktail tent, just outside the seating area for dinner.

I will just be doing seating chart using an old window.. similar to this:

Seating charts are really common in my area, the only time I've ever seen specific assigned seats are when its a served dinner and has to be that way so the staff knows where each meal goes.

I'm having a small destination wedding with 2-3 tables max plus a sweetheart table. I'm limited on what I can bring. I like the idea of just assigning tables versus specific seats but planned to do place cards and coordinating menus to add some decor. I guess people can swap seats if they like. I'm sure not sure about a separate table with cards for only 20-25 people. I guess a framed list on the table might work as well. Just not sure about it yet. Trying to finalize the remaining wish washy guests but at least my guests have to book a reservation so I will know about final headcount in a reasonable time before the wedding in Nov.

View Quoted Comment I’m doing a destination wedding as well and am assigning tables, not seats. I was going to do a note card for our guests that’ll also act as a table card. So on the outside it’ll have their name folded in half but when they open it, it’ll be a thank you for coming note. I’m not doing table favors either. We are gonna do welcome bags that’ll act as our favor that we’ll give to our guests when they arrive.

We are doing a seating chart like. And naming table from movies so like
Farther of the bride table
(table 1)
chris
michele
ginny
gary
Elizabeth
Matt
James

I ordered a seating chart template off of Etsy and then printed it at Office Max. I then bought a 18x24 frame from Walmart and put it on an easel for my guests.

I had no problems and only compliments of how cute and simple it was

We did escort cards that doubled as favors. They were skeleton key bottle openers. The tag had homemade labels with their table info.

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I'm doing these too! Did a lot of people take them? How did you let everyone know they were bottle openers/favors?