How to seat your guests? It is a question that every couple fear when they prepare their wedding. We know how stressful it can be so to avoid you hours of headache Label’Emotion London gives you a few tips to make this moment as enjoyable as possible.
Should you decide where to seat them or let them choose?
You may ask yourself why you need to give people a specific seating assignment. Why not let them sit wherever they want? First, it is about organization, when it is dinner time it will be easier if everyone knows where they have to go. It will avoid empty seats or on the contrary too many filled tables. It will also help for the timing as you may loose over 30 min if you leave too many options for your guests.Maybe some of them will be unhappy but they know you have done your best to create a good atmosphere.
If you want a more relaxed approach, forget the the place cards and consider escort cards. The idea is to gather the people you choose at the same table and then they can decide who they want to sit next to.
The Top Table:
The top table is the table where the bride and the groom are seated. You can choose to be just the two of you at this table but in general you seat he people you want to honour. For example the best men and the bridesmaids, sisters, brothers and the closest friends. According to the tradition parents should be seated with the bride and groom but it is not very popular these days. As a piece of advice if you want to enjoy the dinner with friends sisters and brothers you could create a second table where you would seat your parents and the closest family members. Anyway during the wedding dinner you will probably spend time at all the tables.
How to seat the rest of your guests?
First you can make tables age by age. Don’t seat elderly people next to the stereo or children who are too noisy. The youth who will enjoy the music and the dance-floor can be seated next to the DJ. You better avoid putting the children around the kitchen as they could bother the waiters.
Remember to leave some space between the tables so that the guests and waiters can move on easily.
Should you mix the families?
This depends of the atmosphere between the family of the groom and the bride. If they already know each other pretty well and if they like each other you can mix them without any anxiety.
But if they don’t know each other that much there are two option:
You can decide that your wedding could be a good way for them to meet but it is a little bit risky in case of they realize here is no feeling or they don’t know what to talk about it could create a bad atmosphere.
Or you can play safe and seat the families with people they know.
Some more tips…
Take into account the disagreements or divorce to avoid conflicts.
Try to mix shy and easy going people, alternate men and women and don’t separate couples.
Don’t hesitate to put a little gift in your guest’s plate or somewhere else. Chick here if want to know more about guest’s gifts.
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