When creating a wedding table plan, there are three possible ways in which you could approach the task. These three different approaches could be referred to as post-it, perfect-it and print-it. Let’s see how these wedding table plans make seating your guests an art.
Post-It Table Plans
The post-it approach has you carefully writing out all of your wedding guests’ names on separate scraps of paper of post-it notes. Now you can choose the palate of your choice. It can be a floor, a table or even you kitchen wall. You must take these little post it notes in great care as they represent the guests you need to seat. Imagine your wall as your venue and seat your friends and family accordingly. Until you remember of course that Auntie Edith dosent’ get along with cousin Myrtle. Back to the wall we go re organizing. Until of course you remember that Granny has gone almost totally deaf and needs to sit at the front. And so on. This method makes arranging and re arranging your lovely guests quite easy. Well of course hoping the adhesive holds up to all the changes!
Perfect-It Table Plans
The perfect-it approach doesn’t bother with the scraps of paper, but instead involves setting aside a full afternoon, with a large sheet of high quality paper, a set of pens and a guest list. You have seen these sketches, elaborate drawings of perfectly scaled tables and chairs. You write beautifully on the charts with your best pen, in you best handwriting. It looks to elegant and perfect , you can’t believe that you have completed this soon! Then as the weeks become closer and your conversations with family for frequent you realize you aren’t able to keep your seating plan. You seem to have no choice but to place your sister’s ex-boyfriend on the same table as you sister’s other ex-boyfriend, his new boyfriend and his boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. Didn’t families and relationships used to be simpler than this? Wiping away the tears you discard your effort, and start afresh. With this approach to creating a wedding table plan, your thinking of eloping!
Print-It Table Plans
The print-it method doesn’t involve scraps of paper of an afternoon creating a work of art on your walls. Hallelujah for the Internet. A simple online tool to upload your wedding guest names, click and drag them around, plonking them in approximately the right places. Once you have a rough draft it’s time to shuffle a few of them about until you get it right. Whenever guests have to cancel, or you decide to invite someone else, you simply log on, bring up the plan on screen and either remove a name, add a name and then drag a few guests into new locations.The big day arrives you click the print button, and pop out as many copies of your wedding table plan as you need. An additional tool is individually formatted place cards wouldn’t that be handy? Using this approach you may find you have too much spare time , better get to the spa.
When it comes to creating a seating plan, don’t trust your guests, and don’t strain by getting to involved. The Law of Table Plans dictates that there is a direct correlation between the amount of time and effort you invest in creating a wedding table plan and the likelihood that one or more of your guests will burst your bubble at the last minute.
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