Seating Chart?

sjhansen28

Hi Everyone!
Since you all give such great advice, I figure I'd come to you with this dilemma I'm having. I have 250 guests that are going to be invited, and both FI and I have large families. We're having a plated dinner in a hotel for our reception. I was planning on assigning tables for our guests, since there's so many of them and I thought it would decrease confusion. However, this is not usually done in either my family or FI's family, and when I brought up the subject to my mom and aunt, they were both against it. They said that it would be too much work for me, and just to reserve tables up front for family. That being said, most of the guests will be family, so I'm not exactly sure how that'd work.

Basically, my question is do you think I should assign tables or not? It's not something that is usually done for weddings in my family, but I have so many guests that I feel like it would be nice to do.

MMRoberts11

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_seating-chart-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:7620f1d8-5384-4f9d-9eec-308555057786Post:4881c2a4-d6d9-4ba7-9522-f0cebb9d1959">Re: Seating Chart?</a>:
[QUOTE]I like the idea of assigned tables (as PPs stated), but not seats. Maybe that will be a good compromise for you and your family?
Posted by doeie04[/QUOTE]

This.  I've seen this done at just about every wedding I've been to.  I think if the couple doesn't have to do assigned seating for plated dinners they just do tables.

kristin183

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_seating-chart-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:7620f1d8-5384-4f9d-9eec-308555057786Post:4881c2a4-d6d9-4ba7-9522-f0cebb9d1959">Re: Seating Chart?</a>:
[QUOTE]I like the idea of assigned tables (as PPs stated), but not seats. Maybe that will be a good compromise for you and your family?
Posted by doeie04[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I kind of like that idea too.
FI hates the idea of assigned anything. He feels people should be able to sit where they want and with who they want. I think with plated dinners it might be a good idea to at least to assigned tables.