June 2012 Weddings

vent: RD seating chart

As I am sitting here working on my RD seating chart, I am SO glad I opted not to do a seating chart for the reception.  It took me like 3 hours to work out a seating chart for 4 tables of 8-10 people, total 36 people.  Why are so many of FI's friends so incredibly socially awkward?!?  Two of them are afraid of girls practically so neeed to be seated mostly with their own family.. and my dad is kinda a rough character and had to have special consideration for his seat.. plus trying to keep couples and families with small children together, and make sure the singles know other people at their table.. wow!  I can't imagine doing this for 25 tables for my wedding reception.

 I was SO sure it was going to just HAVE TO be awkward and weird and finally I got it.. but geeminy!

Seating charts suck!

And I'm a teacher so I do them ALL the time.

You know what's majorly different though?  TRYING to put people with their close friends/people they want to talk to.. it's so much easier to SEPARATE them (like at school!). Hahaha..

Re: vent: RD seating chart

  • I feel ya!  We decided not to do seating charts at either just because I knew from arranging 22 desks 4 times a year that it would be a pain!
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  • I can't even imagine where I would begin doing a seating chart... Yikes!
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  • kipnuskipnus member
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    Haha...oh, seating charts. When I was teaching, I found that I could never separate everyone that needed to be separated--there just wasn't enough room to spread out all the trouble-makers!

    I'm glad I don't have to do one for our RD. We're just having a BBQ. Our reception seating plan (for 60) was surprisingly painless (once we got all of our RSVPs!)
  • doing the seating chart for the reception was annoying enough, I didn't even think to do one for the RD. Oh well, not worrying about it now
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  • Ash,

    I wouldn't have done one but it's plated with about 12 different menu choices, so it was pretty necssary.  Thank God my reception is buffet!
  • Spent 9 hrs doing our reception seating chart with parents, no way am I doing one for the RD!
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