RE: Vendors on the day of.

Swan06 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 08:47 PM

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When arranging who sits at what table do you include the dj's? I ask because most of the night they will be at the booth. Do they sit down to eat? I know the photographers and videographers will sit at a table to eat.

BRIDEMICHELE Posted: Sep 26, 2005 08:50 PM

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Posted by Swan06

When arranging who sits at what table do you include the dj's? I ask because most of the night they will be at the booth. Do they sit down to eat? I know the photographers and videographers will sit at a table to eat.

I think that the hall has little tables in the back or kitchen for them. They don't sit with your guests.

mclane Posted: Sep 26, 2005 08:51 PM

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Posted by BRIDEMICHELE

Posted by Swan06

When arranging who sits at what table do you include the dj's? I ask because most of the night they will be at the booth. Do they sit down to eat? I know the photographers and videographers will sit at a table to eat.

I think that the hall has little tables in the back or kitchen for them. They don't sit with your guests.

that sounds right to me- you shouold check with your hall

Swan06 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 08:52 PM

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I was doing the seating chart and I put the Photographers in tables that needed two more people. I thought that photographers had to be mixed in.

beautyq115 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 09:00 PM

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Posted by Swan06

I was doing the seating chart and I put the Photographers in tables that needed two more people. I thought that photographers had to be mixed in.

Are you putting them with actual guests??? I am putting them at a table in the back...with no centerpiece! They are vendors not guests.

070306 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 09:31 PM

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No the catering halls usually make a table for all your vendors and your maitre De takes care of everything....

roxyspark Posted: Sep 26, 2005 09:45 PM

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No, they are not seated with the guests.
The wedding I went to, I saw the vendors eating in the room that had the cocktail hour.

beautyq115 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 09:46 PM

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Any Swan Club brides care to share where the vendors were seated???

SummerBride06 Posted: Sep 26, 2005 10:15 PM

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vendors should NOT be sitting with guests. not unless they want to give you a nice fat check for your wedding...

the hall will take care of them.

hocus Posted: Sep 27, 2005 12:01 PM

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I would call your hall and ask what they typically do.

You could put all the vendors (video, photographer, etc) at one small table. I wouldn't put them with guests, because it would be disruptive to the table and might make your photographer feel a bit awkward.

My photographer ate at the bar (this was a true bar with stools) though there were plenty of other places for him to sit.

LFitzy79 Posted: Sep 27, 2005 12:05 PM

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At my sisters wedding they set up a table just outside the doors for the band and the photographers/videagraphers-we had enough favors and centerpieces for thier table as well though, so we had the hall set thier table up just like the other guests-it looked pretty, and they liked that they got favors....

Laura&Phil Posted: Sep 27, 2005 02:49 PM

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They def won't be sitting with your guests- check with your hall.

dpli Posted: Sep 27, 2005 03:00 PM

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Posted by beautyq115

Any Swan Club brides care to share where the vendors were seated???

I have no idea where my vendors ate (there were only 2 of them) but it was not with my guests. I assume they ate in the room where the CH was (I was in the Contessa Room and my CH was in the Afterdeck room)

diamondgrlie Posted: Sep 27, 2005 03:04 PM

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You do not have to include vendors in the seating chart at all.

My DJs did not sit and my photographers and videographer ate their dinner in the CH room because no one was in there anymore.

mka06 Posted: Sep 27, 2005 03:44 PM

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they should not be sitting with your guests... unless you have some reason for wanting them to be -- like one of them is a family friend. otherwise, they are seated elsewhere by the MD and usually in another room.