My wedding is January 1st and I am still debating about doing escort cards. After reading all the posts on here I was definitely set on doing them, but both my mother and FMIL are against them. My mom more so just because of the work, but I will be doing it anyway so I don't know why it matters to her. I also asked at our reception site if people normally do them and their response was that in the past year only one other wedding had them that had a buffet (what we are having for the meal).
I just really don't want people being split up. I also don't understand why FMIL is completely against doing it. The reasoning she gave to me was because the last wedding she was at they didn't have them and also because she thinks that people will be glued to their seats and not mingle with other guests.
So my question is what would you do?
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Wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?
But, had they allowed us to do escort cards then we would have because I find that assigned tables = less confusion for guests.
How many guests are you having?
I'm very pro table assigning. I think once you get up over 50 or so people, its just a mess without it.
"Whatever East. You're just mad I RSVP'd "lame" to your pre-wedding sleepover."
Or you could do table assignments in a more interesting way - use chalkboard paint on a framed picture and list the names of the people at each table, attach the table assignment card to the favors all located at one table, etc. Just google table assignment and you'll see lots of ideas.
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Our guests ate and then when dinner was over, they were up and mingling for the rest of the reception. No one was glued to their seats.
I say do them.
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Instead of cards, maybe just do a big chart. Perhaps its the cards themselves she opposes?
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From my perspective, I'd think that escort cards are less work than a chart. If you make a mistake, you can redo one card rather than a whole chart. But I've only used escort cards, not a chart, so I can't say for sure which is easier.