So we have a private room in a restaurant rented for our reception, which has 26 seats (2 @ 4 seats, 3 @ 6 seats). Including ourselves we have 25 people. So I would like to assign seating because there is only one way to put people together with the one empty seat. Like the one empty seat has to be at FI's parent's table for it to work for couples to be together otherwise it's all thrown off.
How would you present the seating assignments? It seems silly to have escort cards or a table chart for such a small group in such a small room. Would you just put name cards at each place setting? Or a list of names on each centerpiece? Or would you still do normal escort cards?