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Figuring out where to seat all your guests at your wedding reception is probably one of the least enjoyable aspects of wedding planning. It may be that deciding where to put your second-cousin-once-removed-twice-divorced-currently-single isn’t as hard as, say, how to handle your eighteen-person wedding party table. It gets stressful and even downright contentious at times.

Simple Seating Strategies

To avoid ending up with the proverbial ‘table of misfits,’ here are some table seating strategies you can try:

• Keep like with like: don’t mix and match friends and family who don’t know each other
• Know your friends and whether mixing singles with couples might make singles feel less targeted
• Mix outgoing, gregarious people with quieter guests
• Try not to mix age and generation unless it’s within a family
• Seat older guests further from the music

Also, force a little table socialization, such as printing only one or two menu cards or a short ‘Did You Know’ trivia card about how the bride or groom knows each guest. Other ice breaker ideas include creative table numbering or unconventional favors, like lottery scratch tickets.

Wedding Place Cards

There is another, easier and more direct way to ensure that each and every guest feels welcome: having a place setting card printed with each guest (or couple’s) name(s) on it. Wedding place cards literally give guests a place at the table. There are three kinds of complete seating stationery:

1. Escort Cards – these cards are meant to direct guests to a specific table. They can double as place setting cards.
2. Place Cards – these cards are placed at each setting at a table with a guest’s name. They work with or without escort cards.
3. Table Cards – these cards identify a table, either by number, name, symbol or some other marker to distinguish different tables.

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