Seating Chart? Or No Seating Chart?

I’m having a seating chart, I just feel it would make everything much easier and more organized for the guests

View Quoted Comment I contemplated a seating chart. Once someone told me that there’s nothing stopping from someone moving their “name” tag to a different table it made me second guess it. 😞

Definitely seating chart. It'll help everone including us.

View Quoted Comment How did you do you seating chart? Did you intermix each families? Kids table etc, just curious!

Reserved tables but not seats

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Reserved tables? for example: "Bridal party table" but no specific order of where they needed to sit?

View Quoted Comment No, sorry should have been clearer. I'm assigning tables but not chairs. People can sit wherever they want to at the table

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Oh! Thank-you for the clarification.

I’m all for a seating chart with assigned tables. It’s much more efficient for everyone.

Our venue requires assigned tables and place cards with the guests meal choice on it. I think a seating chart is a must for many reasons but if you’re having a plated meal how can you not have a seating chart? Your servers are going to need to know what meals go to what tables and guests.
And you can’t just move your place card to another table during or before the meal, there are only so many chairs. People move after the meal but not before. Your friend is incorrect

View Quoted Comment Girl, I've not even started really on our seating chart yet. I do know my FH won't have much family from his side at our wedding and I have tons of family. I was going to mix his family n my family at each table but depends tho how many of his we will be inviting.


Kids table I've not really thought about that one yet🤔💬🤷

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Were not having plated, ours is going to buffet. So I think thats what she was meaning that she's seen people just move their name card. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am all for seating chart

We are doing a non seating chart. We have a buffet style dinner and everyone is adults. We will reserve about 1 or 2 tables for immediate family only, everyone else can find there own seats lol.

FH and I are having a buffet. We'll be doing escort cards instead of a seating chart and we'll just have the cards placed in alphabetical order by last name.

I recently went to two weddings and now I will for sure have a seating chart! The first my fiancé and I didn’t really know anyone so we ended up sitting alone and it was pretty awkward. The second someone stole where we were sitting even with my friends phone on the table! Then there were no seats together left. I just want to make it as easy and enjoyable as possible for my guests!

At minimum, assigned tables!

No seating chart but we are only having about 40 ppl there including us and it’s in a restaurant’s private room. The only tables being assigned are my head table and the kids table.

We're having one large seating chart outside the reception room where it says the table number and everyone sitting in that table, but we aren't assigning chairs on the tables. So guests read the chart, find their name, find their table and pick a chair.

We were going to skip seating charts but a friend of mine told me that she went to a wedding where they did that and some people ended up taking chairs from other tables and putting it on their table to seat whoever they wanted, which left some tables having 2 people, some tables with 10, and some people who couldn't find seats because people kept taking the chairs.

I think a seating chart is much more orderly. Some people really lack manners and you can't leave it up to them. Plus, there is bound to be some people who don't know anyone and making them pick a seat with them and their plus one (or them alone) is going to be really awkward.

We're seating each family separate but their tables will be mixed if that makes sense? So for example I'll have my uncle with his wife and kids on one table, and the table beside them would be my in law's with their kids. Not separating "sides" but separating tables so children aren't running around or people aren't forced to talk to someone they've never met before.