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So you've planned all the details to your wedding, and you've gotten all your RSVPs
back and you're trying to develop a seating plan for your wedding dinner. Hi I'm Jessica
Meiczinger, and I'm going to tell you the steps and what to do in planning your seating
arrangements for your wedding dinner. First of all, you want to be familiar with the venue.
Go ahead and get a blank floor plan or pre-arranged floor plan from the catering manager at the
venue or the caterer or the facility manager if you're having it not at a hotel. Also you
want to go through all your wedding invitations and RSVPs and make sure everybody's accounted
for. You definitely don't want to leave somebody out. And then you'll want to go ahead and
start you know grouping the people that know each other you know family members, friends,
you know bride side, groom side. And start you know setting your tables out. When doing
your floor plan, you want to make sure the family tables are the closest to the head
table, which are the two closest tables to the top. And then you know branch everybody
else out in groups from there. Also keep in mind you know if there's anybody pregnant
or with kids, seat them close to the restrooms and kind of away from the entertainment so
they have easy access to move throughout the evening. Also you know keep in mind your elderly
guests as well. You don't want to seat them too close to the entertainment because they
usually don't like the loud noise and want to just kind of sit back and relax and enjoy
themselves and talk amongst their peers. When you do the grouping, you want to go ahead
and group them by table. Here we've done a little chart. It demonstrates the names of
who's sitting at that table, the name or number of that table, and also what the guest is
having. And you know sometimes you might have a guest that has special dietary needs or
is having something different than all the rest of the guests. So you want to make notations
on this you know seating chart as well. Once you've done that, you want to go ahead and
print your place cards and make a copy of the seating chart and the floor plan and give
those to your wedding coordinator, also the banquet staff, your catering manager as well
so that way they can ensure smooth dinner service throughout the evening at your reception.
So again I'm Jessica Meiczinger with Simply Divine Events and good luck in arranging your
seating plan.