subject: Wedding Seating Plan Traps - How Your Time Will Be Eaten By Fickle Guests [print this page] What is the hardest part of coming up with a wedding seating plan? Creating wedding seating plans can very often be left as a task to sort out nearer the time, but this is definitely a mistake, because each and every stage of developing even a simple wedding seating plan can prove time consuming.
This is often at the very time when time is itself rather short in measure, and you have a few other things to worry about besides where to plonk your Great Aunt Bertha.
One of the first challenges will be to composed the list of guests who will be coming, or who will probably be coming. You'll have created your guest list, sent off the invitations, and then waited in hope for the replies.
Unfortunately not everyone does reply, or at least, not as quickly as you'd like. This means that any attempt to create a wedding table plan at this stage will inevitably mean alterations and changes later on.
Do you remember those kids toys you might have played with years ago which were small plastic puzzles made up of a frame of square pieces which slide around a grid, with just one blank space to use? Trying to shuffle people about on wedding seating plans can feel much the same way you always end up with one or two awkwardly located guests you really don't know what to do with.
You find yourself visualising being each person, looking around at those on the same table and on tables close by, trying to work out how everybody will feel. Just as you start to make progress, someone will almost always offer their apologies before cancelling, or you'll find a guest you'd given up hearing from finally writes to let you know they'll be coming after all.
Trying to revise and redraft a wedding seating plan takes an awful long time, and usually results in starting all over several times. Perhaps one of the worst aspects is finalising your wedding seating plan, because usually this can't be done until almost the day before your wedding. At this stage you usually have better things to do than shuffling virtual bottoms around on scraps of paper.
You might even feel tempted to chuck the whole lot in and let people just get on with it. However this isn't a good idea. Almost all wedding guests prefer there to be a wedding seating plan, and such plans usually make a huge difference to the overall success of the occasion.
Once you finally gasp a sigh of relief and realise you've cracked it at last you may think the task is finally over. However, the next stage is to write out all of the place name cards, and then run round the reception room placing these on each table according to your plan. Again, this tends to be at the very moment when you have rather better things to do.
Creating wedding seating plans by hand is laborious, time-consuming and stressful. Fortunately there are alternatives, such as TopTablePlanner.com which will give you back your sanity, a very great deal of time, and may even make the process of preparing for your reception almost an enjoyable one!
by: Adam Leyton
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