Seating Cards/Ideas

Re: Seating Cards/Ideas

• jennybean2010 member

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  i'm not quite sure what you're asking-i get the impression that while having individual escort cards will help the servers to know which entrees they have to bring to the table, they will still likely have to ask just to make sure. i'm not convinced that is so detrimental that it is going to offend your guests or cause a huge problem. we're going to be doing votive holders & candles with our guests names on them for the escort cards personally (PIB). i figure if it's going to just get tossed on to the table anyways, might as well make it useful while it takes up space on the table.

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• morganphd

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  You have to have someway of making sure that the waiters know who ordered what without asking only because if the waiters ask, there will probably be people who will pick something new, causing the numbers to be incorrect in the kitchen. Then, you will have people end up with something that they didn't order and which they aren't happy about because that is the only food left. One possibility is that you could do a board like your mother wants, then have, at each table, color coded cards, or disks, or coasters (color coded to their food choice) in the middle of the table. When the guests get there they can sit where they want at the assigned table, pick up their "card" (the one with their name on it) and use that to show the waiter what entree they ordered. I was lazy. I just did the color-coded tented escort cards. But, we only had 126, not 300 or 250.

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• kelly1516 member

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  we have alot of people invited to our wedding and are having a sit down dinner also. We met with our receptionhall today and she suggested the table cards with a colored dot in the corner to indicate their meal choice. I personally do not think the board idea is a good idea due to the fact of the sit down dinner. Unless they took colored paper dots or something to have at the table so the servers know who has what. Good luck on your decision!

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• EmilyBerdell member

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  I agree with PP. You need to indicate with their the meal selections, especially with a group of this size. You could use the board idea, but pin each couple / family / single guest name on a color coded card to the board. Or all white cards with those small dot stickers, color coded for each meal selecition. They take the card with them to the table and the servers will see their selelctions. It doesn't have to be a big deal. Also, in terms of the people picking up their cards, I wouldn't worry about the number of guests. People don't all come in at the exact same time, so it's not going to be a traffic jam. If you're really worried about it, you divide the alphabet into three groups and have three boards near each other, but with some space for people to look. For your size of a group, it's probably going to be really hard to do seating assignments at each table. That's a huge project. Just my honest opinion.

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• dicer2

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  There are lots of ways to do something different with your placecard table rather than just having white tented cards.  You can use different colored cards, place candles between them, do the votive thing like Jennybean.  I've seen little flags on toothpicks 'planted' in trays of green grass.  Or my personal favorite because I did it, tags hanging on branches of 'trees'. 

  
  
  
  

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• bel138 member

  

  August 2009 edited December 2011

  You definitely need a way to indicate the meal choices. We're doing business card sized card stock clipped to clothesline with clothespins, but our wedding is casual.

  

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