Not quite sure if this is where this question belongs, but it's possibly etiquette related. Here's the situation, we are offering three meal choices to our guests; beef, fish, or a vegetarian pasta option. We listed each option on our rsvp card and asked people to make their selections (as I'm assuming most people do). We have sent our invitations out at the beginning of the month and have been getting responses slowly in the mail. Also, our venue requires each guest have their own place card with some sort of indication of our choosing as to which people get beef, which ones get fish, and which ones get pasta (again I'm assuming this is the same at many venues).
The problem is, some people have sent their rsvp's back and they have indicated they would like 1 beef and 1 fish, how am I supposed to know which guest wants beef and which one wants fish? I've some of my friends and their opinion was that the people are obviously coming together (so sitting next to each other or at least at the same table) so that I should just take a guess at which person ordered which option and if I get it wrong they can switch plates. This just doesn't seem right to me, I would hate to have people passing dishes back and forth. I also feel like that could look like I didn't care enough to get their order right (I was a waitress in college, maybe that's the waitress in me). I could call the few people that have returned cards like this and ask, but I didn't know if that would be odd. What are your thoughts? Did anyone else have a similar situation? How did you handle it?