How to Arrange Seating for an Inside Home Wedding
Weddings inside your home provide the chance to invite close friends and family, creating an intimate setting. They also provide a unique obstacle: space. Unless you own a mansion, your living room or any other room is probably moderately sized. This creates a seating challenge for both the wedding ceremony and reception. Take into account the way you want your wedding, the amount of space and the number of guests to appropriately arrange seating.
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Instructions
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Plan how you want the wedding party to enter the room. Depending upon the size of the room, you may or may not be able to create a walkway down the middle of the room. Alternatively, you can set seating to one side of the room and create a walkway down the other.
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Place couches or folding chairs on either side of the wall and at the back of the room, to create a walkway down the middle. Create one, two or three rows along each wall, depending upon the size of the room and how wide you need the walkway.
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Place folding chairs along one side of the room to create a walkway along the opposite side. For example, create rows of chairs that extend from the left wall to the right, leaving walkway along the right side of the room. Alternatively, leave no room for a walkway and have the wedding party enter from the front, where the ceremony takes place.
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Set up the reception in another room or move tables in after the ceremony is complete. Ask guests to move their chairs to a table of their choice or to fold the chairs if you have other accommodations arranged.
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Place a head table at the front of the room for the reception. Include the bride, groom and wedding party at this table. Arrange other tables throughout the room as necessary.
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Tips & Warnings
Assign seating if you wish, but since it's a home wedding you can let people sit wherever they want, on either side of the isle.
Wedding ceremonies and receptions inside your house only account for your closest friends and family. Invite to fit the space you can provide. You don't want to change location the last minute because people can't fit in house.
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