The Truth (The Whole Truth) About Creating Wedding Table Plans
The Truth (The Whole Truth) About Creating Wedding Table Plans
If you're starting to think about the challenge of wedding table plans then it's a good idea to be aware of one important fact. One of the things most people overlook, or fail to mention, is that as far as wedding table plans are concerned, the plan itself is the least of your worries. In fact creating the final plan is a doddle.
The real problem is everything else that needs to be achieved both before, during and after the task of creating a suitable seating plan for the wedding reception. So what exactly are these monumental tasks, and what can you do to make them slightly more manageable?
The important thing to remember at this stage is that although the tasks themselves may sound fairly insignificant, and certainly nothing to worry yourself about, they are all terribly misleading in this respect. The many peripheral tasks involved in the process of creating wedding table plans are devilishly deceptive as far as the amount of time, trouble and angst they are able to conjure is concerned.
Once you have created your guest list, which is the exciting part, one of the first tasks will be to decide who will be seated on the Top Table. Years ago this was a fairly straightforward task, and tradition has dictated the best way of achieving this in many cases. But today, for various reasons, our families are rather more dynamic and complicated than they often have been in the past.
It may be all very well assuming that the mother and father of the Bride will sit on one side, and the mother and father of the Groom on the other side, but what if the mother and father of the Bride are divorced, and each have remarried? What about if the same thing has happened on the Groom's side? It's quite easy to imagine a Top Table with a dozen or more people on it, which becomes far too dominating in the room, and creates a barrier between the Bride and Groom and the rest of their guests. In such cases abandoning the Top Table altogether is an option many have chosen.
But once that hurdle has been crossed it's time to work out how to divide and conquer the rest of your guests. Knowing that some people will get on well with some guests and feel very uncomfortable sitting with others makes you have to think twice about every seat, but then when you realise that elderly family may need to sit nearer the front, possibly nearer the toilets, away from the children, windows, doors and loud speakers, whilst children will need to be near the exit and the toilets, it starts to become a little like playing chess on a snakes and ladders board with pieces from Scrabble.
Even once the wedding table plans have managed to progress past this stage, there is then the task of creating one large table plan for display at the entrance for guests to use, as well as several smaller copies for venue organisers, kitchens and serving staff to use. Then there are the place cards for each and every guest which need to be created, and which need to match both the guest list and the table plan.
But when you also realise that for a whole barrage of reasons your guest list will inevitably change in the run up to your wedding, with even a single change of guest having far reaching implications as far as your best laid plans are concerned, the whole process of creating wedding table plans seems to be a greater challenge than anything else you've tackled in your life. But before you despair, there is hope. Technology has today come to the rescue to all those tasked with creating wedding table plans, with a range of solutions and utilities, many of which can easily be found online.
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