Seating Chart Hell..

JennyAPH Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:00 PM

Seating Chart Hell..

Any Advice?? I have been staring at it all day. I want to start doing it now because I know its going to take me forever!

GT143EA Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:02 PM

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Use weddingwire.com You can put all your guests in and move them around the tables. made it so much easier!

JennyAPH Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:03 PM

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Posted by GT143EA

Use weddingwire.com You can put all your guests in and move them around the tables. made it so much easier!

i just tried it and hated it. Got so frustrated and just closed it out. lol

GT143EA Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:03 PM

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Posted by JennyAPH

Posted by GT143EA

Use weddingwire.com You can put all your guests in and move them around the tables. made it so much easier!

i just tried it and hated it. Got so frustrated and just closed it out. lol

Awww really? I used it and thought it made life so much easier!

lilmartha59 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:06 PM

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i just wrote out the names...i made my FMIL do her side and FFIL his side...i did my side with my parents and everyone else with FH...keep in mind that you will have different number tables and dont kill yourself trying to make every table the same number...i have tables that have 8 and same that have 13

klsnyc805 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:09 PM

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I saw on someone's wedding blog that they wrote each guest name on a post-it note and used paper plates as the tables, and just moved people around that way, laid out on the floor of their apt. It seemed like an interesting method!!

JennyAPH Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:22 PM

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Posted by klsnyc805

I saw on someone's wedding blog that they wrote each guest name on a post-it note and used paper plates as the tables, and just moved people around that way, laid out on the floor of their apt. It seemed like an interesting method!!

Thats funny I just called my mom and she said this too.. she is going out to buy paper plates and sticky notes

gina409 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:22 PM

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Posted by klsnyc805

I saw on someone's wedding blog that they wrote each guest name on a post-it note and used paper plates as the tables, and just moved people around that way, laid out on the floor of their apt. It seemed like an interesting method!!

just what i was going to say..we got a big shet of oak tag..drew tables on them with number and moved post its around

chreesta Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:24 PM

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This was going to be my suggestion! Good luck!

ajlgmm815 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:29 PM

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i got big constuction paper and drew the table on it same as what the hall gave me, then put 10-12 lines inside them and wrote everyones name on it:

1) jane doe
2)guest
3)bob smith
4)guest

it was so much easier this way and i did it in pencil so if i needed to erase i could! HTH!! good luck!!

CandB4604 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:35 PM

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Posted by GT143EA

Posted by JennyAPH

Posted by GT143EA

Use weddingwire.com You can put all your guests in and move them around the tables. made it so much easier!

i just tried it and hated it. Got so frustrated and just closed it out. lol

Awww really? I used it and thought it made life so much easier!

Me too! Hmm.. i thought it made it much quicker.. maybe print the guest list and cut up the pieces?

pandafish519 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:42 PM

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Posted by klsnyc805

I saw on someone's wedding blog that they wrote each guest name on a post-it note and used paper plates as the tables, and just moved people around that way, laid out on the floor of their apt. It seemed like an interesting method!!

this is what we did totally works...

MrsCM Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:45 PM

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I used the resource on this website and kept moving people around until it all worked out!

JennyAPH Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:47 PM

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Posted by CandB4604

Posted by GT143EA

Posted by JennyAPH

Posted by GT143EA

Use weddingwire.com You can put all your guests in and move them around the tables. made it so much easier!

i just tried it and hated it. Got so frustrated and just closed it out. lol

Awww really? I used it and thought it made life so much easier!

Me too! Hmm.. i thought it made it much quicker.. maybe print the guest list and cut up the pieces?

I think it annoyed me because first it kept freezing.. then I was squinting to see the names (i cant find my glasses).. haha so now i have moved on to paper and writing the names very big so I can see

I Love Paolo Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:48 PM

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I used the knot.com and we were done in 15 minutes. We were able to change people around easily. Try it.

Future Mrs Roo Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:49 PM

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going thru this now, I wish I would have started earlier

tgrlily339 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 03:55 PM

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Posted by klsnyc805

I saw on someone's wedding blog that they wrote each guest name on a post-it note and used paper plates as the tables, and just moved people around that way, laid out on the floor of their apt. It seemed like an interesting method!!

I know someone who did this too ... they said it worked great! I was going to use those little rectangled post its!

chicky724 Posted: Aug 27, 2009 04:21 PM

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We had all of our names in an Excel spreadsheet (bc EVERYTHING needed to be on my spreadsheet ) so I just made the font bigger and put the number of people on it too.

So we had like:
Mr. and Mrs. Smith - 2
The Doe Family - 5

and that way I didn't accidentally separate people that had to be together. Plus it made doing the counting easier.

nraboni Posted: Aug 27, 2009 04:26 PM

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I was going to suggest using excel.

I have everything in excel so I just made another worksheet and listed everyone that was attending and put them in columns by table.

For example:

Table 1
joe
john
james
jane

Table 2
blah
blah
blah

It was the easiest way for me. I tried wedding wire and it was too small for me to see and kept messing up on me.