Seating your Guests at Wedding Reception

If you have limited gathering and only very close friends and a few family members are invited, then you need not worry since they can roam all around and mingle with each other. They can even look after themselves and even arrangements are no big deal.

Your attention is required when the number of invitees is more than 100. You need to arrange for a proper seating plan. If there is no plan, the waiters are confused as to which table they have served and which ones are still to be served. There is a lot of chaos and confusion. Read on to get a few tips on the seating arrangements for the guests at wedding reception.

Don’t wait for the last minute

You might be delaying small agendas but this one is of utmost importance. You have to make sure that your guests go happy since you have taken a lot of pains for them. Try to settle this issue at least a week before the event. It’s perfectly fine to make last moment changes.

Categorise the invitees

Try to divide the invitees into categories. You may do this at the very initial stage so don’t have to worry for the seating arrangement. If the guests are categorised, the groups are already formed so you just need to check it once. It could be the bride’s friends, the groom’s friends, the bride’s family, the grooms family, staff members and so on. You may simply arrange these categories into different tables.

Choose the kind of table you want

You can choose a traditional head table. It is a long and straight one with guests lined up facing each other. The bride and the groom sit in the middle so that everyone can see them. Next to them are the best man and maid of honour, Then comes the flower girls, And then the parents of the bride and the groom.

Matchmaker

Try to place the enemies far apart and like-minded people together. Your wedding is also an opportunity for the guests to catch up with each other. They may not have seen each other for a while and this was the occasion they were waiting for. So don’t disappoint them by seating them separately. You can even experiment with friends who don’t know each other but think will get along well.