seating chart/menu options

Re: seating chart/menu options

• calindi member

  

  August 2012

  If you can, call them up and ask who is eating which meal.  If you can't call, then are you sitting them together?  If so, you could just pick one for each - they can always trade.
  
  It's entirely possible they did what my FI and I often do - I pick one meal, he picks another - we don't care who has each, just that we can share and aren't stuck with just one item if it sucks.  In which case, they don't know or care who gets each.
  
  I went to a wedding where they had little crystals on each escort card, and the color of the crystal indicated the meal.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Oh bummer. Our venue wanted to know the specific meal choice for each person so our RSVPs were a line for each name and then next to each name a box for each meal choice. So they would write the name and then check chicken or whatever each person chose. I would call if you can or just choose and hope they understand when the food comes out...

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• rungirl12 member

  

  August 2012

  I was in charge of this at my sister's wedding. Here's what I did using colored cardstock.  Pink cardstock was chicken, green was beef, and purple was vegetarian.  So for those who I could figure out, I printed their names on that color of cardstock.

  
  

  For the problem you are having where you can't figure out who wants what, I printed all those names on white cardstock.  For Smith family of four with 1 wanting chicken and 3 wanting beef, I printed 1 pink card that said "chicken" instead of a name and 3 green cards that said "beef" instead of a name.  Then, I stuck all 4 colored cards (the 1 chicken and 3 beef) underneath one of the family member's white cardstock name tags.  We had a table with all the name cards arranged where you had to pick them up and then go to your assigned table. I put a note on the table of cards that read something along the lines of, "if you have a white nametag, we were unable to determine which meal you wanted.  Please select from the choices that were given to your family"  That way, they had their name cards indicating their table number, but also the colored tag that the waitstaff was using to identify meal choices.

  
  

  Hope that works for you!

  

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• katehar01 member

  

  August 2012

  I'd call the families that didn't indicate to see what they want.  For the couples, I'd just assign one meal to each - they'll just switch if it's wrong.  I think the different colored cards is a good idea - I'm just doing S or C on the back of the card (for chicken or salmon).  But then again, I don't have 4 meal choices, so that may be too complicated.

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  August 2012

  We are putting gems on ours. We will have 4 different colors, our venue said this is the best that works for them. We will use our wedding colors!

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• holycrapitsalexa member

  

  August 2012

  Wow..great ideas, ladies! Thank you. I definitely have some options here and it won't be as difficult as I imagined.

  
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• libby2483 member

  

  August 2012

  This is how we did our RSVPs as well, and some people also just put the number of each meal, not initials.  If it was just two people attending, and one wanted chicken and the other beef, I just gave one chicken and one beef without calling because I figure they are sitting next to each other and can switch if I got it wrong.  If it was more complicated with several people, I just gave them a call.  

  
  

  We are using stickers on the name card to differentiate what meals people are getting.

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