I am not looking forward to this part of planning...soooo any great ideas on an easy way of doing this? TIA!
futuremrsfab
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sorry no ideas- but I feel your pain
autumnbride10
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I could use some ideas too....it ain't gonna be fun...
pa56
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I have everyone's name in excel. To the left of their name, I have how I know them (work, school, family friend...) and I sorted based on how I know them. I am putting all co-workers together, all classmates together...
So I would suggest breaking your guests up into subcategories and sorting by category.
MikeandJess
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as the rsvp's come in I've been putting people at tables. It really wasn't THAT bad, besides both sets of parents changing a few things around and even that wasn't terrible
BeccaJo
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This was most definately a pain. We used a big corkboard and make a tag for each guest which worked out ok for the intial decision making. We also scanned in a picture of the floor plan and used that for the rest of the small changes. Hope that helps!
deb08
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i saw a cute idea in a mag- use paper plates as the tables and post it notes for the peoples names. this way you can move them easy to adjust them---
i though it was cute & cheap!!!
cherish83
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I am going to sound a lil OCD But I am really going to try and do something like Monica did on Friends. Where she had a big chart with the tables and pins for each person
MrsJ08
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Posted by deb08
i saw a cute idea in a mag- use paper plates as the tables and post it notes for the peoples names. this way you can move them easy to adjust them---
i though it was cute & cheap!!!
I saw that too!!! lol...but dont feel like writing 200 names lol
thanks sooo much ladies!!!
Mici n KC
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I'm using the seating chart on here. Everyday when we get RSVPs I just add them in. I started moving people into certain tables already, but once we get the rest in, it should be easy.
mRm2008
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I am planning on doing this:
Taking a piece of white poster board and drawing a grid of how many tables I need in total. So for example I have 24 boxes drawn for my 24 tables. I then am going to write each guest's name on a post-it flag. I can just stick the guests' post-its on the corresponding box and move them around easily if I have to!
HTH
lillprincess54
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I tired to do it myself and got all stressed out trying to make everyone happy, so i got home one day and me and dh sat at the kithcen table woth some pen and paper and we had it done in 20 minutes
try not to do it yourself , and remember you cant make everyone happy, and not every table is going to have the same amount of people, we had tables of 8,9 and 10. We also had 1 table of 7
Adriana618
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Posted by mRm2008
I am planning on doing this:
Taking a piece of white poster board and drawing a grid of how many tables I need in total. So for example I have 24 boxes drawn for my 24 tables. I then am going to write each guest's name on a post-it flag. I can just stick the guests' post-its on the corresponding box and move them around easily if I have to!
HTH
this is what i'm doing to! It worked great when I did this for my engagment party- mad it really clear to visualize where everyone is!
DrWho
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It's not so hard, I just put people into groups of 10 that felt like obvious matches, then finagled a person here or there once we determined which size tables would be in which parts of the room.
