Reserved tables

We are assigning tables. My cousin did this for her wedding & it worked so well.

Please at least assign tables.

I'm just confused about assigning tables for family. I don't know what family members to put with who

Our venue gave us a seating chart and place cards. We have to assign the tables, write out the place cards, and drop everything off the day before the wedding. They will arrange the place cards on a table so guests will be able to find their name/table as they are leaving cocktail hour.

Hannah, we don't know your family, so we can't tell you who to put where.

Please assign tables. We put my parents uncles and aunts at one table and my husbands parents, sisters, and grandparents at another table. I actually had a pretty easy time doing our seating chart

Hannah - assign tables for everyone and avoid issues.

Ask your ILs for help if you need to know who to sit with who on that side

We had reserved tables for immediate family and wedding party, and it worked out great. If you don't assign tables, make sure you have extra tables though.

The only way not assigning tables can work is if you purposely have extra seats and tables. I had 64 seats for 48 guests and didn't do assigned seating. ( I was renting everything and needed to finalize the equipment rental before the rsvp date and got more on purpose to be safe) This worked well at my event, but it was small and there was plenty of room.

At my daughter wedding she had reserved table for family it didn't matter people still sat there...so as mother of the bride I had to sit way out in Timbuktu...not fun

Hannah - whose family don't you know who to sit with who? Yours or FH's? If it's the former, ask your parents. If it's the latter, FH should be helping you figure that out or ask your FMIL or FFIL.

Please assign tables. I went to a wedding that didn't and it was horrible! People ended up not sitting with the people they came with. People were running around trying to leave jackets and purses on seats. Someone had to stay at the table if you got up to make sure someone else didn't steal your seat!

I made a seating chart

I'm lurking- but I did have a question because I haven't been to a wedding since I've been an adult. When dinner is plated can you still just assign tables or do you need to assign seats so the staff knows what to serve who?

I hate assigned seating at weddings. At my sisters wedding we just had a sweetheart table that had bride and groom stuff on it and then reserved tables. But we had an extra 5 tables mainly bc it was a huge hall and b/c about 20 people didn't show up. I'm just going to have an extra few tables set up. I HATE HATE HATE seating charts. Every wedding i'VE GONE to I get sat at the WORST table possible away from my friends.

I've been to plenty of open seating weddings with no issues.

We are assigning tables for everyone

I did assigned tables. Ours were tables of 8. All had 8 except 2 had 6 because I didn't want to sit people at a table of people they didn't know.

I displayed the poster on an easel and had my day of coordinator set it up during cocktail hour.

I started by putting 2 tables together. One with my parents + grandparents and one with DH parents + grand parents and aunt and uncle. From there on I did my family and I did DH's family. We had a table for friends (non BP. Friends). Most all knew each other but they were all the same age and we knew they'd get along.

When it's played you can just assign tables. Just add a sticker indicating their entree choice.

John Smith

Table 6

And a gold star sticker for chicken

@Cassandra, the plated dinners I have been to all use a code on the place card. So there will be a "1" or "2" on the back of the card that waitstaff can see. Sometimes the waiter just comes and asks, but the card code is what I am more familiar with. I'm sure it is possible to make a chart for the kitchen since you know what everyone is ordering, I just have never seen that done.