Jamie Wolfer
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EVERYTHING You Need to Know About SEATING CHARTS
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Jamie, you are going to laugh!
So … had zero desire to do a seating chart, but after watching you video a while back and chatting with two of my buddies with opposite views I decided to go ahead and do assigned tables. Go on Zazzle made the cutest seating cards for my reception. It took me 2-3 days I was so proud of them I took a photo. Well after
ALL OF THAT…. on the day of wedding I could not find my seating cards! I know exactly what box I put them in with my wedding decorations. That’s what happens when your nephews move your wedding boxes to the venue! I was so upset! I tried to sneak out to go back to my house to get them… no got busted and put back in my bridal suite, broke the rule and face timed my new hubby to convince him to go back home and look for them and he refused! OMG! God love the day of coordinator! She saw how upset was and asked if I had a list. I remember the little picture I took on my phone of it and she said let’s give it a go. Do you know she took that one picture and typed up some faux seating cards for me and hung them up! Wow! Everyone got seated reasonably and all well that ends well. We had a great day! Do you know I got married 3 weeks ago and to this day those seating cards still have not been found! 😂😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️
Hi Jamie, we are doing open seating as it’s a shorter party with buffet style food but not at an meal time, and it would have been cool if there were more tips on how to make unassigned seating work. I think I’ll just have one table reserved for our family and then the rest of the guests can sit where they like. We want to encourage dancing anyway.
Jamie
Loreal. Tristan
Bride. Groom
Sister brother Sister. Brother
Guests25. Time
Table chair, Family. Friend.
Venue Saturday June24. 2024. Wedding
2:00. 6:00AM
Table Food. Fruit. Table.
I think there needs to be a distinction between a place card and an escort card.
Soo helpful thank you!
I'm tasked with planning my granddaughter's entire wedding and this task has been the most stressful thing I've ever done!
I’m a recovering people pleaser and this video is very helpful 🥹 thank you!!!
Thanks I was wondering about being a few odd people at certain tables, because of just the amount of people, I didn’t want to have an extra table for like 3 people🙄
Thank you for the reassurance about non-perfect tables, Jamie! And also the piece about not feeling super responsible for every guest's experience! 😌 You are a life-saver
My seating chart is honestly the hardest part of planning my whole wedding 😩 my mum and MIL don't get along and cannot be seated together, my mum and my father opposite sides of the room 🤦♀️I need to decide where to seat my 8 yr old, 5 yr old, and 5 month old.
I have a small wedding of 50 guests this is so hard 😩
Is printing out the table assignment with a specific seat chart and emailing to guests in advance of the wedding a good or tacky idea?
Hard pass on the “list people by table.” It created a HORRIBLE bottleneck at my friend’s wedding. So unless you only have like 4 tables… I personally think listing names alphabetically is more efficient. I decided to place individual namecards out on a seating chart table, and have guests take their namecard WITH them when they went. That way guests behind them found their names from a shrinking pool of namecards, which made the process faster and faster.
Is it weird if I have 1 long tables for each family? my family is Vietnamese and his is Filipino! Should I be funny and named it "groom's team" & "bride's team"
5th times a charm? 😅 Every time I think it is done, something else comes up. THANK YOU FOR THIS!
I freaking hate my cousins wedding. My sisters and I are 19, 20, and 24 and we got sat at the kids table. We were sat with set of 2nd cousins (Two 2nd cousins who are brothers), our three 3rd cousins (our three cousins that are two brothers and a sister), and then some random couple we didn't know. My sisters and I felt so bad for them because they were in there late 20's and sitting at the kids table. My cousins ages in descending order are 19, 16, 15, 12, and 8. And our 12 year old cousins was being the littlest shit ever and acting younger than the 8 year old. He was stealing everyone's favors (which was soap) and he wouldn't license to any of us girls at the table to shut up during toasts. It wasn't until when our oldest male cousin, who was my age, to shut up that he shut up; and then he left and pouted out side.
What do you do when people who didn’t RSVP show up? How can you swiftly include them last minute?
Following these tips as I make my daughter's seating chart
Do you list people as a couple/family? Or all individually. Like “Smith, Mr&Mrs”
“Smith, Jane and John” “Smith Family” ??
I am currently planning the seating arrangement and awkward table is relatable 🤣
What about when you only have a couple of long tables?
I was thinking of having my family directly across from us so they have best view of us at the sweetheart table. I feel that the spots on the sides don’t have as good of a view of the bride and groom.
Could anyone give me advice on my seating chart? My Fiancées father, (barely in his life) step mom and little brother are coming. They won't know anybody, and they'll be meeting my parents for the first time. Meanwhile my parents and his Mom and Dad are wanting to sit at the same table as each other. His mom and Father haven't spoken in 10+ years. What do I do with his Father??? Stick them with my family?? He is into car racing so I put him with my cousins who are into cars…. lol. I'm not sure where the best place for them to be.
You have finally talked me into making a seating chart 😆 I was gonna have open seating cos guest seating plans are a nightmare
I’m doing alphabetical seating on foam board, white and black classic and simple
i still can't believe u had ur wedding <10k …
Also, make sure to find out from your venue how many people at maximum can fit at each table! At my venue we could fit 12 at a table but at my sister’s venue the max was 10