Although many people wonder exactly how to approach the task of creating a wedding table, there exists a great many people who get little further than asking themselves the question whether to have a wedding table plan at all. If you are one of those people who are considering the possibility of not using a wedding table plan, then it might be worth heeding a little advice based on the experiences of a few people who have already been down the very same road.

Although creating a wedding table plan might seem like hard work, and it certainly does require a good deal of planning, imagination and a little bit of time, the reward is well worth it. Let me recount a couple of examples of weddings for which no seating plan at all was developed.

The first example is one at which 80 guests were all attempting to find a good seat. The definition of a good seat at a wedding appears to be any seat or table which is as close as possible to the top table. Unfortunately in this particular case many of the closest relatives of the Bride and Groom, including grandparents and godparents, were fairly elderly.

They couldn’t race from the church to the reception hall quite as quickly as some of the Bride and Groom’s younger friends. This meant that close family members found themselves pushed to the back of the hall, furthest away from the Bride and Groom.

This was clearly deeply disappointing for those members of the family home could barely see anything, and in addition, the Bride was quite upset about the situation as well. Sadly there wasn’t a great deal which could be done at the time, but a wedding table plan would have certainly provided many advantages.

On another occasion where no table plan was created 120 guests flew into the reception venue and immediately set about reorganising the seating, tables and even table settings. All of the tables had been laid out and decorated beautifully, but by the time the Bride and Groom, and the photographer, all arrived at the reception venue, most of the tables had been cannibalised, split, shoved up together, moved around and even table settings and chairs moved to create clusters for large groups.

This meant that on one side of the hall there was one enormous group of tables all pushed together which was actually larger than the top table itself. This also left many people sitting on small, isolated tables for just two or three people. This didn’t help improve the atmosphere for many of those guests.

Creating a table plan needn’t be terribly difficult, as long as you approach it the right way. Most of those people today who create a wedding table plan do so on the computer, rather than on paper. There are several excellent computer based solutions for creating table plans which allow you to keep things organised, as well as helping to improve the experience of those guests at your wedding.

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