How to Make an Engagement Party Seating Chart
An engagement party celebrates the newly-engaged couple and begin preparations for a wedding. Engagement parties can be small, intimate affairs or large celebrations with many guests. A seating plan will help organize everyone and avoid stress and tension. There is no traditional way to seat guests at an engagement party, but you can use the seating at an engagement party to prepare for the seating at a wedding reception, as the people at the engagement party should also be invited to the reception.
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Instructions
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Make a note about each guest’s relationship to the bride and groom. If you do this in a computer spreadsheet program, you can easily organize the guests in terms of these relationships.
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Draw a diagram on a piece of paper or in a computer program of the table arrangement at the engagement party so you can make notes of where you want people to sit before the event.
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Find seats for the bride and groom first. In traditional seating arrangements, the bride, groom and often the wedding party are in the middle of the party or at the head of the room. Don’t feel tied down by convention, however. If there’s a part of the room that would better accommodate the bride and groom, seat them there.
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Seat the parents of the bride and the groom. The parents can be at the bride and groom’s table, seated together at the same table or host their own tables surrounded by their friends.
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Seat the rest of your guests. You can seat people together by families, friends, people with similar interests or even people you think would get along.
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Plan for any tension between guests while finishing the seating chart. If certain guests don’t like each other or have drama in their pasts that may cause problems at the party, don’t seat them near each other.
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Tips & Warnings
If your party is small, a seating plan is not necessary. Feel free to let guests pick their own seats.
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