subject: The 3 Types Of Wedding Table Plan Person - Which One Are You? [print this page] When it comes to creating a wedding table plan there are three types of person which one are you? The first type of person is the one who considers that their wedding guests are perfectly capable of sorting things out for themselves, and that a wedding table plan is a little too like planning a classroom out and telling the pupils where to sit. This type of person feels that their guests can be trusted to sort themselves out. After all, they're mostly adults.
The second type of person is the one who feels that creating a wedding table is easier than painting by numbers, because there's no painting involved. Creating a wedding table plan is simply a case of writing the number 1' on the first table, the number 2' on the second table and so on.
As long as both they, and their guests, are capable of counting up to double figures then there shouldn't be any real problems. Write down on a sheet of paper who is sitting on which table and let them sort it all out for themselves.
Then there is the third type of person. This is the one who usually finds themselves getting into the local newspaper for having such an original idea. This type of person is the one who accepts that their guests need more direction than they're often given credit for, but that numbers are about as interesting to most people as calculating their tax return or that maths lesson they had in Year 9.
The trouble with the first type of person is that they have way too much faith in other people. In a recent survey of wedding guests carried out by a leading wedding magazine the overwhelming majority of people (around 80%) said that they would far rather be told where to sit.
A hundred people, the majority of whom will not know everyone else, all crowding in to a single room at roughly the same time tends to result in a stampede. Granted, it's probably one the best dressed stampedes in the world, but a stampede is, after all, not something you really wish to have planned as part of your wedding day. You don't hear of too many stampedes towards the end of fairy tales.
The second type of person does at least have a plan. Telling people where to sit by using a well thought out wedding table plan takes the stress out of organising people.
After all, your wedding ceremony may well last only about half an hour, but the reception may last several hours. If people are sitting with people they don't know, or don't like, or have a bladder problem but are seated as far away from the toilets as it's possible to get then this is certainly likely to have an effect on their enjoyment of the day, and yours.
But numbering tables doesn't help completely, because there's a perceived hierarchy. Those guests on table 26 are clearly likely to feel somewhat disenchanted.
So what about the third type of person? This is the one who decided to create a wedding table plan based on the periodic table, a map of Europe, the names of the albums of their favourite artist, locations within their favourite novel or types of flower. This person avoids the stampede, and avoids the numerical hierarchy. This is the sort of person who sleeps at night without having nightmare flashbacks. Which sort of person do you want to be?
by: Adam Leyton
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