Table Seating Chart

1- Ask your guest what their dates name is

2- I think just putting photos with whatever number is the only way to make this work. You could always put a photo of you and your fiancé with a caption at the bottom "Us at 1" or something like that, but the table number does not have to coincide.

Your guest should write out their date's name on the rsvp card that they send back. Otherwise, you should ask.

You could make copies of all of the pictures and put them somewhere where everyone can see them - maybe on the table with your seating chart/placecards, guestbook table, etc. You could also mix it up, your family doesn't have to be at table 1. My tables are numbered based on their location in the room, but I'm putting my family near the dancefloor, which is like table 8.

In reference to your first question, I think it depends on if it’s someone is a significant other or if it’s just a random date you’ve never met. If it’s anyone that they live with or in a relationship with I would ask for their name definitely.


If there’s any reason why you feel like you might not be able to ask the name for example a friend might bring a random date last minute if they had their first date back out kind of thing. I think in this case it’s probably safe to just put two cards with your friends name on both.
That way if your friend tells you they’re bringing Maria, and then last minute Maria backs out and they choose to bring Sandra And don’t tell you, Sandra might be pretty upset knowing that she was the second choice LOL.

1 - Ask, or put Friend's Name Guest

2 - I think your family would love seeing what you looked like at any age, because everyone loves seeing pictures of their family. That said, DH and I used the numbers of players from our favorite baseball team, so they went all over the place 1, 20, 35... but we had 9 tables or so. They don't have to correspond.