Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match
May 13th, 2008 @ 2:41 pm by Miss Dahlia
Last night we were double checking the seating chart, making sure that everyone is seated appropriately (i.e. non-drinkers are not located next to the bar, crazy relatives are separated, that sort of thing.) Reflecting on it as we were lying in bed, we started thinking about which “singles” we could possibly pair up. (It actually reminded me of high school sleepovers.)
No, we’re not doing a singles table, as most people naturally fall into a particular group (high school friends, college friends, grad school friends) of people. But Mr. Dahlia’s got this friend from high school, and I’ve got this friend from college, and well, it seems like they would just be perfect for each other.
I know that this sort of meddling typically doesn’t work out very well, but it is so tempting.
Anyone else playing matchmaker at their wedding? (And if you met your special someone at a wedding, please share!)
The Long and Short of it, Part II
May 10th, 2008 @ 12:58 pm by Miss Peacock
Like a few other bees, I am using the Perfect Table Plan software to assign seats and lay out the room for the reception. I really love playing with it. I already uploaded all of my guests (no, the invitations haven’t gone out yet. Why do you ask?) and have assigned their seats. The software enables you to make connections between people which will help you assign their seat- do you want them to sit right next to each other? At the same table? As far apart from each other as humanly possible? Are they a VIP? You can lock people in at particular tables. If you spend enough time on that, you can just hit “Auto Assign” and the program will seat everyone for you. It is way more fun than it sounds.
Although I can’t figure out how to create my strange, octagonally shaped room, I can still estimate its size. I cut out space for the dance floor, added the bars, the band and enough rectangular tables to seat roughly 200 people. Here is what it looks like. The left and right sides do not represent walls, so it isn’t as cramped as it appears.
What do you think? Should I go back to round tables?
Where Do I Sit?
April 24th, 2008 @ 8:30 am by Miss Flamingo
Before I even need to think about who I will be seating where (and let me say I am dreading this part!), I have to decide what type of escort cards I will be using. I recently learned the difference between escort cards and place cards : place cards actually assign the seats of the guests and escort cards simply say which table your guest will be seated at and they choose their seat.
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Seating Plan = Unforeseen Stress
April 21st, 2008 @ 9:30 am by Miss Lovebird
I pretty much spent most of Sunday updating the registry, finalizing our guest list, emailing our wedding coordinator and working on our seating plan/chart.
Where To Sit?
March 6th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm by Miss Dahlia
One of the things that we hope to get started on soon is a seating chart for our guests. Yes, we know that our invitations haven’t gone out yet (but will be in the mail early next week!), but I’ve heard that it is easier to make a seating chart ahead of time and then modify it as people say they can come in than it is to start from scratch after the RSVP deadline.
Which brings us to one of our wedding “problems” that we have put off addressing more or less since we got engaged. Where do we sit? We’ve nixed the idea of a traditional, last supper-style head table. We also aren’t too fond of having a sweetheart table. And we want our attendants to be seated with their significant others, as they will be coming from out of town and will not know many people (if any) people at the wedding.
Here’s the lineup of players:
Us (Mr. & Miss Dahlia)
Maid of Honor + boyfriend (from out of town)
Bridesmaid 1 (my brother’s girlfriend) + Groomsman 1 (my brother)
Bridesmaid 2 (Mr. Dahlia’s sister) + boyfriend
Best man + girlfriend (from out of town)
Groomsman 2 (my brother; girlfriend is out of the country and won’t be in attendance)
Strategic Seating
January 10th, 2008 @ 2:13 pm by Miss Hummingbird
A little SATC love today - Does anyone else totally love
Anthony and Miranda sitting next to eachother? Imagine the snark!
As Mr. Hummingbird and I are keeners, over Christmas break, we started seriously discussing our wedding guestlist and who would be sitting where, provided everyone we invited came (I know this is highly unlikely, especially considering our family and friends are spread out across Canada and into the States).
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Visualizing The Big Day
November 26th, 2007 @ 9:32 am by Miss Hummingbird
Up until now, pretty much all the talk about the wedding has been hypothetical. We knew people were going to come and they were going to sit, but we didn’t know who was going to come or where we were going to put them. This became even less clear when it turned out we were no longer getting a free tent (we were originally going to get it through Mr. Hummingbird’s father’s work but as he is leaving that job at the end of December due to its crazy stress, the tent was out of the question).
Sweetly, Mr. Hummingbird’s father jumped in to save the day and offered to cover the cost of the tent we would now need to rent, so we got to work, scouting out vendors to fill our location needs. We settled on a package last week and as an added bonus, they sent us a prospective tent floor plan so we could start piecing together what our big day will look like. Check it out!
(This floor plan has been modified to add table numbers and our table names)
1000 Cranes, 100 Lilies, and 1 Tired Girl
November 8th, 2007 @ 8:29 am by Miss Bubblegum
A little while back, one of my coworkers got me into a one-week-long origami phase. It was during this time that I decided that origami something would have to make an appearance at my wedding.
I first considered the idea of 1000 cranes. However, as you may imagine, the idea of making 1000 origami cranes was not horribly appealing to me. I even did the math.. “if i make 3 cranes per day..”
My next idea was to include it in the invitation. Since the invitations were going to be home-made anyway, how about a home-made touch? But after (literally) a few weeks of looking for an origami pattern that was a) doable b) pretty and c) flat-ish, I decided that mailing my origami was probably not the best idea.
I finally settled on the idea that I would affix my origami creations to the escort cards. It was not until yesterday, however, that that idea took flight.
The Unseatables
October 15th, 2007 @ 2:51 pm by Mrs. Kiwi
In an effort to make it easier on Mr. Kiwi and I, we’re assigning tables but not seats. With a guest list totaling 140 people at the most, we’ll have 15 tables of random numbers from the full ten to a meager 6. It’s funny because we have a few tables that filled up fast, since we knew the combination would work, and was happy with it (and happy to LEAVE it).
Unfortunately, this flow of “perfect seat mates” has left us with a few unseatables. Unseatables are the guests who come alone, know no one, and aren’t particularly outgoing and friendly. So, as I know it’s wrong to seat them all at the same table (can you imagine a table full of non-talkers?), I’m going to have to place them at tables with friendly people and big talkers.
I want people at our wedding to be very comfortable, but when it comes to seating guests, it’s so hard to please everyone! As it is, I have to seat my parents at different tables, their families at different tables, and Mr. Kiwi’s mom’s side is seated at a different table from his dad’s side. Drama-rama! It’s so hard playing the diplomat at these things!
How are you going about seating these unseatables?
Take A Seat!
September 17th, 2007 @ 4:22 pm by Mrs. Eggplant
Although it looks like Mr. Eggplant is diligently studying all the reasons why he’s excited to marry me, he’s really doing our table seating arrangements. 
