Seating Charts

Soon2BeMrsPy Posted: May 14, 2013 02:45 PM

Seating Charts

How did you all (or plan to) go about doing this? Is there a template somewhere? Not quite sure what I am supposed to do... TIA

StephanieXO Posted: May 14, 2013 02:48 PM

Seating Charts

Do you mean a seating chart instead of place cards? or your own seating chart for figuring out tables?

Soon2BeMrsPy Posted: May 14, 2013 02:51 PM

Seating Charts

I am doing escort cards abut have been reading about people doing seating charts.. Is that in place of? I am just trying to figure out what's going on lol

StephanieXO Posted: May 14, 2013 02:55 PM

Seating Charts

Yea some people do it, it would be in place of the escort cards. It would be like a big sign with an alphabetical list of names (by last name), and next to it would be the table number. I'm not sure where you would buy this, I guess its a DIY thing? I've also seen seating 'trees' with tags hanging off of the branches. I personally like the escort cards the best because I think that the chart causes traffic as people look for their names.

meejack1110 Posted: May 14, 2013 02:58 PM

Seating Charts

lol A seating chart for the reception is a printed up list usually in some sort of decorative way...that tells people what table they are at. Or did you mean a template for figuring out where you should put people? lol now im confused too!! I'm doing place cards instead of a chart, because I'm paranoid about making last minute changes and not being able to change the chart! lol

Angie2014 Posted: May 14, 2013 03:01 PM

Seating Charts

Hmmm I will be having escort cards, but I'm a very visual person and would like to be able to move people around as the RSVPs come in. Wedding Wire has this virtual seating chart, wherein you upload your guest list (easiest to do as an excel file). Then you can virtually lay out the room, specific numbers of tables, guests at each table, etc. You can place the guests at assigned tables and move them around as well, so you have it all laid out in front of you.

Or, you can get the floor plan from the venue, blow it up and place stickers/post-its or use index cards.

I helped my friend with this for her wedding, so this is probably the only thing I have a clue about lol. Hope this helps!

ETA: This is to figure out where you want to seat people. I have no idea how to do a seating chart for the day of, so I'm doing escort cards.

Soon2BeMrsPy Posted: May 14, 2013 03:01 PM

Seating Charts

OH I GET IT! Duh! Ok so I don't need that since I am doing escort cards. I suppose it would be nice to have a template where I could print and write where I am seating everyone just so I know where to put people.

StephanieXO Posted: May 14, 2013 03:13 PM

Seating Charts

your catering hall should also provide you with the layout of the room and tables. for our engagement party, our caterer gave us the room layout and table numbers, and we asked if we could change around the table numbers, which we were able to. they gave us guidelines of 8-10 people per table, and i basically took my RSVP list and arranged it into groups corresponding with the chart. :)