Seating Chart Question

FutureMrs.T Posted: Oct 14, 2008 02:22 PM

Seating Chart Question

I have to start my seating chart this week. How did you ladies go about starting yours. I can see myself getting very overwhelmed by this task.

Any suggestions?

TrueLoveIn2008 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 02:41 PM

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Use the seating chart tool on LIW! It's so easy. You have to add all your guests into the 'Wedding Guests' section, but then you can just put people at tables via a drop down menu in the 'Seating Chart' section. It's so easy to move people around, etc. I love it!

RadiantBride Posted: Oct 14, 2008 02:46 PM

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I did it on excel. I created a spreadsheet with all the table numbers and the amount of people per table. Then I was able to group the people that I wanted to sit together together. As I received the last couple of RSVP's I was able to update the seating chart or move people around just by copying and pasting.

snowcutie82 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 03:33 PM

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Posted by RadiantBride

I did it on excel. I created a spreadsheet with all the table numbers and the amount of people per table. Then I was able to group the people that I wanted to sit together together. As I received the last couple of RSVP's I was able to update the seating chart or move people around just by copying and pasting.

sounds like what im doing.

u can also make a diagram of the tables and then names on sticky tabs...then just move them around if u need a real visual (and want to get an idea of the locations of the tables in reference to things)...but im always in excel...so that way works for me.

LCnAC Posted: Oct 14, 2008 03:36 PM

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pencil paper and a very large eraser lol ...and do it yourself first then ask FH for his advice....I was kind of lucky becuase we invited different cliques of people and they each ended up getting theri own table

anneandchris Posted: Oct 14, 2008 03:48 PM

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index cards. Took my final guest list and then added people to index cards to make up tables.

Then laid them out according to the floor plan the hall gave us.

ShaDom9301 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 03:50 PM

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i like that idea......writing the tables out on index cards

jerrys girl Posted: Oct 14, 2008 04:03 PM

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Posted by JBoothIn2008

Use the seating chart tool on LIW! It's so easy. You have to add all your guests into the 'Wedding Guests' section, but then you can just put people at tables via a drop down menu in the 'Seating Chart' section. It's so easy to move people around, etc. I love it!

I did it this way. It was great. I added my guests as they rsvp'd so i did not get behind.

Kerin2804 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 04:38 PM

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I started with the seating chart here but then had to change due to the odd numbers we used. I simply set up an excel chart and that worked best. I could email it to my mom and she would review it then send it back to me.

Cutechef729 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 04:42 PM

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I armed myself with a bottle of wine. Seriously. I only drank one glass because it wasn't as bad as I expected. lol: We just started by grouping who we knew we were going to seat together but I do like the seating chart planner on liw. Good luck!:

MrsJ08 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 04:59 PM

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Posted by RadiantBride

I did it on excel. I created a spreadsheet with all the table numbers and the amount of people per table. Then I was able to group the people that I wanted to sit together together. As I received the last couple of RSVP's I was able to update the seating chart or move people around just by copying and pasting.

I did the same thing...it was so much easier i had to constantly move ppl around and this was so easy to do just cut and paste.

Good Luck because you may loose your mind after a while, but once your done its a huge relief.

jennarose023 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 05:01 PM

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we got a floor plan from the RH and then i blew it up really big, hung it on the wall and put each guests names on post-its so they were easy to manuver

CC11208 Posted: Oct 14, 2008 10:26 PM

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Posted by JBoothIn2008

Use the seating chart tool on LIW! It's so easy. You have to add all your guests into the 'Wedding Guests' section, but then you can just put people at tables via a drop down menu in the 'Seating Chart' section. It's so easy to move people around, etc. I love it!

I second this!!!! I just finished doing the seating chart about 5 minutes ago using this tool!

What I did was place 'my people' into odd tables, and had FH's mom place 'their people' into even tables. We have a very small family on my side, so I asked my parents who they'd want to sit at their table, and when I received their list, I just filtered everyone else that makes sense into tables. I tried to keep families together, but split others where the generations made sense...... in other words, my sisters are sitting with friends their age, and those friends are the children of my parents' friends. Same with FH's brother and friends. I kept a few 'adult' tables with older guests so hopefully they have something in common to talk about, and put a table of my college friends and school friends together since everyone's the same age and some know each other.

It wasn't easy, but I took a paper, drew lines across to split it into 10 boxes, and started w/ the obvious, 1 table for my parents, 1 for FH's parents. Then 1 table for my sisters, 1 for his brother. That was 4 tables so far to fill up. Then went on from there, using the 'Seating Chart' tool on LIW which was very easy to use.

Hope this makes sense!

I'm going to be laying out my escort cards now, placing in all the missing table numbers..... hopefully will get them done tonight and press PRINT!!!

jrzygrl Posted: Oct 14, 2008 11:24 PM

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index cards! they are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you can move them around. Some people are easier then others... thankfully I just have to do mine and FH and my parents since they don't have many and my family is small.... and then my MIL did theirs (and well we wouldn't have known who to put where) it worked out pretty well... took a bunch of moving with the cards to get it the way we like it. I recommend them.

JTsGal829 Posted: Oct 15, 2008 12:22 AM

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i used the seating chart on martha stewart's website. even though we are still waiting for RSVPs im doing wat i can. I uploaded an excel spreadsheet that i had of all my guests.. and just like the LIW one u can drag and drop guests. Pretty simple!!!
(the program..not the seating..lmao)

Kricket212 Posted: Oct 15, 2008 06:51 AM

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I am using excel also. I did my family which was 6 tables.....FH family will be alittle harder.

dream426 Posted: Oct 15, 2008 07:08 AM

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I wrote them out and then I actually did a powerpoint thing so I had a different slide for each table...haha I don't know how that got started but it really worked for me. It was easy to remove and add people.

Snick n Nick Posted: Oct 15, 2008 08:19 AM

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I had my mom do my side of the family and MIL do DH's side of the family, and DH and I did our friends--it worked out great and they were totally on board--that way people couldn't complain to me My mom and MIL made little slips of paper with everyone's names on their lists and moved them around to different tables. I just did it in excel