How to attack the seating chart...

HKD817 · September 2010

Hi girls

I wanted to know if anyone had a good ideas or tools to help you get started on the seating chart. I'm not a big fan of the seating chart tool on TK. I have 170 guests to organize. I need a good starting point. Any suggestions?

bellebride116 · September 2010

We started with our parents and bridal party and then just went from there... we had to re-do things a few times and it took a little bit, but that's how we did it. We did it on a large dry-erase board!

PharmacyBride · September 2010

My sis didn't worry about table number right away.. she spent all her time grouping people. After all that.. she organized the tables in the room. I think this helped her focus on one thing at a time.

She did this in excel and added the names in slowly (and checked them off her list as she went). She grouped the easy people first and then used the other ones to fill in various tables.

HTHs

nhelene · September 2010

I printed out my escort cards with no table numbers, and used rubber stamps to fill them in later. I organized the cards into groups of 3-5... then combined smaller groups into bigger groups of 8 or 9.

I worked with my mom on how to seat my family's 3 tables, then did the same thing with FI's mom. I let mom and FMIL help with who should sit with who, but arranged the tables and table numbers myself.

quotequeen · September 2010

I am using the response cards to group people into tables.

mica178 · September 2010

I'm using excel. I started by doing any "natural" groupings (known friends or close family), and then if there was space, I would combine groups that would probably fit well together.

beamer84 · September 2010

I told DH to seat his side (friends, fam, etc). I made 1 table for my friends, and 1 table for my parents and the people they wanted. Then I just sat the remaining people (family and parents' friends) at 4 other tables. I ran through it all with my Mom, who made changes to the fam/parents friends tables. It went pretty smoothly.

starrynight1658 · September 2010

I think we did things the hard way, but for our 150 guests, we wrote their names individually on the little sticky note flags, and then cut out as many circles as we had tables. We then stuck names around tables, starting with the wedding party, and immediate family. I'm a visual person, so it's nice to be able to physically "move" people around as we change our minds!

kdrott · September 2010

we just made columns in a word document and wrote the tables down as lists (since we already had the names input from an excel spreadsheet). that way it's easy to move them here and there. good luck!

marissa_claire · September 2010

Start out by writing all the numbers in the parties - and decide if you want to have kids' tables, singles' tables, etc. That is an awesome starting point. Our RSVP date isn't until Nov. 1, but I've already started working on like the family tables at least.

If you need to write it out you can, but I really don't think the business with chairs and tables in a picture help that much. The bottom line is really making the numbers add up and making sure people get along at a table, so that's what I would focus on.

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