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Planning a wedding and the following reception follows is hard work. Do you really need a seating chart for your special event? Would it not be easier to simply toss the doors open and allow your guests to decide where everyone is going to sit? It would be easier, but you will find that in many cases the overall success of your wedding reception will be greater with at least some seating plan.
Brides who have decided they did not need a seating chart have found that many of their more distant friends and relatives ended up sitting right up front, their parents and closest friends and relatives did not – and now someone's nose is out of joint.
Brides who have decided that they did not need a seating chart have often found too late that their dear Aunt Judy, who refuses to get hearing aids because she says they make her look old, ended up sitting at a table in the back and essentially missed the entire evening.
Other examples of the consequences of deciding there was no need for a seating chart at the wedding reception are tables where no one knows anyone and as a result does not talk, or guests leaving early because their family ended up sitting at four different tables and as a result no one is really enjoying the celebration that you worked so hard to plan.
Truly, you do need to assign seating in some form if you are having any more formal form of reception than wedding cake and punch. The real question is how to identify your seating plan needs to be. The larger the reception and the more unfamiliar the guests are with one another the more detail you will need in your seating chart.
For example, in a small wedding where both sides of the family grow up together and ran in the same social circles you might only need to assign tables for close family members to make sure that your dear grandma is close by to celebrate with you or to make sure that Aunt Dorothy does not get her nose out of joint and start a family war at your wedding.
On the other hand, it is often helpful to design a seating chart that assigns everyone a table while leaving the specific seating arrangement up to the individuals at each table. This can work well as long as you can seat guests together who already know each other and freely intermingle.
Often, however, brides find upon reflection that they need to assign a specific seat to each guest. This enables them to place each guest where they are most likely to find maximum enjoyment which, course, is the whole point – and why you need a seating chart.
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Source by Jeanette Shinn
