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Jul 23, 2024 · Planning your wedding reception seating arrangements? Who sits where at the reception? Learn the ins and outs in our wedding seating chart etiquette guide.
- Pick Table Shapes. Before you start seating guests, you'll need to have a game plan for your tables, generally, as the size and shape will dictate how many guests can be seated at each one.
- Keep Your Friends Close. A head table with your wedding party (and their dates) is a great way to acknowledge their special role and ensure you're surrounded by your BFFs during the reception.
- Figure Out Where Your Parents Will Sit. Traditionally, all of the parents will share a table at the reception, along with grandparents and any siblings that aren't in the wedding party.
- Enlist Your Parents' Help to Seat Their Friends. If you have no idea where to seat your parents' close friends, ask your mother and future mother-in-law (or whoever is closest to them) to help arrange those tables—they'll be happy to be involved.
- Get Your RSVPs in Early. How can you figure out where everyone is going to sit if you don’t know who is coming? Getting your RSVPs back in plenty of time is crucial to the planning of your seating chart.
- Think About Your Table Shapes. Once you know who will be attendance at your wedding breakfast, you need to consider your table shapes. Will you be having circular tables?
- Decide Who You Need Close to You. The next step is to think about who you’d like to be sat on the tables closest to yours. If you’re having a top table, find out how many people it seats and go from there.
- Organise Guests by Groups. Now it’s time to think about grouping everyone else! It’s a good idea to sort guests according to how you know them such as school friends, university friends or friends of parents.
Oct 6, 2023 · Close relatives and honored guests and their families should be seated at the front of the wedding reception. Spouses, children, and significant others of the wedding party should have reserved seating at the front of the reception, as well.
- Amy Hoover
- Tropical Teal Seating Chart. Christina McNeill Photography , Stationery: Shindig Bespoke. Tropical leaves added even more greenery to this teal display at a beach wedding in Hawaii.
- Seating Chart with Modern Shapes. You Look Lovely Fine Art Photography , Stationery: Fawn Lettering. For this Palm Springs wedding, wedding guest seating assignments were written on colorful shapes suspended from a copper frame.
- Suspended Pink Acrylic Signs. Anna Delores Photography , Stationery: Fete & Quill. The wedding table seating chart at this wedding was a pink acrylic display hung amongst plants.
- Minimalist Painted Seating Chart. Abbey Moore Photography , Stationery: Sable & Gray Paper Co. Pink and red abstract shapes were painted on the back of this translucent table plan.
Oct 15, 2022 · Before you delve deep into assigning your guest their seats, decide on the table arrangements. What table shapes would you like; round or rectangular? Where will the tables be placed? How will the event flow within the room? READ MORE: A Guide on Wedding Reception Floor Plans and Table Arrangements.
Sep 13, 2024 · While you can choose to organize your reception however you like, newlyweds traditionally sit with their wedding party at a head table. The best man and the maid of honor will typically be...
