provide seat for who???

danabru

I am providing food for, but do I need to provide a place card and table for the DJ, Pastor, Photographer and the guitarist?

PsyDet 2155

I don't think a place card is necessary but I'm not positive.

Beachy730

I would provide one for the pastor since he will be coming like any other guest.  But the other vendors will be working the reception and don't need it.  We had a coordinator provided to us with our venue and she just told the vendors where their table was.

[Deleted User]

I don't know for sure, but I THINK you should for your pastor, and the rest you'd want to check with what they normally do.
But I'd like to see the real answer for this too

Simply Fated

The pastor, I would say yes, they should be given a placecard and proper seating with the guests.
As for the vendors, they're usually given a table off to the side or even in another room. I would check with your reception venue and see what they usually do. Your vendors should be able to find their own tables, especially if you let them know at some point where their table will be prior to the reception.

GeauxTigers17

I agree too...Pastor yes, other vendors no. 

Kristin789

Your paster and his/her SO would traditionally be at Table 1 with your parents and FI's parents.  And yes, people in the regular reception room do need place cards or table cards.

The vendors will be seated at the vendor table - ask your venue where that will be.  And they do not need placecards or table cards.

Beachy730

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_provide-seat?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:5fb55928-394c-4da5-8bb0-ff3d792d0f68Post:3f0bf838-5ab9-43c6-ab44-5c69ddc51f3c">Re: provide seat for who???</a>:
[QUOTE]Your paster and his/her SO would traditionally be at Table 1 with your parents and FI's parents.  Posted by Kristin789[/QUOTE]

I don't know of many weddings where the Bride's parents even sit with the Groom's parents.  And saying they will automatically be at Table 1 is ridiculous.  My table 1 was in a corner, the first one when you walked in the door.  I would never put my parents there.  They were at table 12 because thats the way the numbers went, and they sat right in front of our table. 

OP- I would assume the Pastor is from either your family's church or your FI's, so I would sit him with whatever set of parents belong to the church.

Loopyseven

Our priest was H's theology teacher in high school.  Since MIL was very specific about who she wanted to sit with (and it didn't include her mother, or her siblings) and my parent's table was full with the grandparents and my siblings we sat the priest with the parents of some of H's other friends from the same high school (two of them were groomsmen).  He enjoyed visiting with them.

emyinpink

I would provide a placecard for your pastor. For your vendors, ask your venue. Our venue has a table set up in a different room for our vendors to relax, eat their dinner in peace, store their equipment, etc.