Comments on: How to Make a Seating Plan for Your Wedding Dinner

on 2/27/2007 Definitely use your pc so you can rearrange people without covering your lounge in a paper snowstorm! Either excel or a word doc will do, but I found www.easytableplanner.co.uk better for seeing the layout and making a few scenarios.

on 6/30/2006 Cut out circles for tables and write out names of guests on Post-it strips (sold as 2"x1/2" strips at places like Office Depot). Then you can play around with who sits where and arrange similar tables close to one another without pages and pages of scratch paper. You can even color code (groom's family, bride's family, parent guests, couples guests)! A little OCD, but a lot of fun and a lot more helpful than my fiancé and I ever expected!

on 8/8/2006 Cut out circles for tables and write out names of guests on Post-it strips (sold as 2" x 1/2" strips at places like Office Depot). Then you can play around with who sits where and arrange similar tables close to one another without pages and pages of scratch paper. You can even color code (groom's family, bride's family, parent guests, couples guests). A little OCD, but a lot of fun and a lot more helpful than my fianc and I ever expected!

on 11/22/2005 Opt for names for your tables, rather than numbers. If you and your honey are Star Wars fans, for example, consider using ship names, and names of characters. I attended a wedding with this theme, and it's fun! An added benefit is that you have a built-in conversation starter, if you choose to seat people who may not know each other at the same table.

on 11/22/2005 This is easier said than done, but remember it is your wedding. Not your mother's or your mother-in-law's. Seat people at tables where you think they will have the most fun. It is the one regret I have from my own wedding. We didn't mix tables