Seating chart or No Seating chart?

Assigned tables ftw!

I was against it at first, but after reading some threads on here I realized it's necessary. You want to make sure all the families can sit together and that everyone will have a place. For that reason, I'm now going to be making one. Or at least have people assigned to tables, and then they can sit wherever at the table. Haven't figured that part out yet.

I feel like no seating chart just causes chaos. And people like being told where to sit.

We just finished ours last night. Definitely table assignments for us - people can select their own seats - but we assigned tables for each guest.

I'm absolutely doing it. I don't need my negative Nancy mom mouthing off to my boss about whatever the complaint of the day is (I am incredibly close with he and his wife) or for any other odd dinner combos.

The issue comes with table counts. I had 95 people and tables were either 8, 9 or 10 to add up to 95. If you don't assign seats, 4 couples will sit at a table for 9 which you intended to be a family of 3, leaving one empty seat. Then couples get split up because that family of 3 got bounced to a table of 8. And people do go up to the bride to try to fix this. Just assign seats and make it easier on yourself

A seating chart I think is the best way to go. Without one, there's a chance that eventually there would be one seat at each table, and couples would have to split up and sit at diff tables for dinner. You don't want to have "extra" place settings just sitting there (extra $$ you don't need to spend.

You can still keep it simple and cheap, if that's the concern from your FH.

Team seating chart here.

I would say yes to a seating chart. It helps things to stay organized instead of people bustling about to find seats and it makes food serving a lot easier.

YES!!! Definitely doing a seating chart. I'm strategically putting certain family members far away from each other.

I'm having a small affair, about 35 people, maybe 5 tables, and I've been debating this. Thoughts about a small event? Still necessary or no?

Always. And you pay by the person, not by the place setting.

I seriously shake my head when some of these pronouncements concerning budget cutting are put out there.

I'm only having 60 people at the most so I decided not to do a seating chart

Seating chart is needed for ours, everyone's meal options will be pre-selected and identified at their place setting. (Our caterer needs final numbers for each dish because the kitchen isn't very large).

Mrs. Fall Bride, there are venues who will charge for those place settings. It doesn't seem right but they do it anyway.

I was against it when we first starting planning and with the help of WW, I am on board. The last wedding was horrible I went to because we sat at a table with no one we knew and it was shoved in a corner. A lot of people ended up sitting away from their spouses because it was crazy trying to find a seat! They may be a headache to make, but I think it will be worth it in the end.

I'm assigning tables and they can choose from there

I was also against seating charts of any kind at first. Then I got to thinking about how some people may not get to sit with their family just because they were late to sitting down. So we're doing escort cards. I don't care what seat they sit in I just want certain people at certain tables together.

We weren't going to do them but then I thought... I really don't want my redneck, Trump loving papaw sitting next to one of the 6+ gay couples on our list, ya know?

I went to a wedding once where there was no seating chart and it ended up a disaster. There were a bunch of tables with like one or two empty seats each with left people standing because they didn't want to sit next to people they didn't know. It was just so so awkward