It is an odd fact of life, but when it comes to creating wedding table plans a great many people seem to carefully pack away their imagination in a little box, tuck their creativity into a bin bag and pop it in the loft, and slip their originality into an envelope addressed return to sender.

The problem is that wedding table plans are not only a necessary part of creating a wedding reception which works smoothly and enables everyone to enjoy themselves and have a great time, but they are also part of the special day, and so should be planned and designed to help tie in with the theme of choice, or are the very least the couple getting married.

If you’ve ever come across wedding table plans which involve a top table at one end, a dozen or more tables spread evenly throughout the rest of the room, and each table proudly displaying a number on it, then you’ll probably have visited an overwhelming selection of dull, bland, vanilla weddings.

So how do you go about creating wedding table plans which show a little bit of originality, and help to add to the day, rather than merely being part of it? One of the most important things to bear in mind when it comes to creating your wedding table plan is to think about exactly those aspects which people don’t generally think about. What I mean is that many people tend to make assumptions that are so ingrained in people’s understanding of what is involved in creating wedding table plans that they generally don’t even stop for a moment to consider that there is any alternative.

Let me give you some examples. One of the first assumptions which a lot of people make is that a wedding reception must involve a top table, yet this isn’t in fact the case. A great many couples have chosen not to have a top table for one reason or another, and this can be an extremely successful move.

If your top table needs to become so large because of the various combinations of people which seem to need to sit there, then splitting it all up makes a lot of sense. The happy couple can then sit on a romantic table surrounded by their friends and family rather than lording it over everyone, completely separated by a large barricade in front of them.

Another assumption is that all the other tables have to be laid out identically as little islands which seat about six people. This doesn’t have to be the case either, and a large horseshoe arrangement of one single table going around the outside of the room has worked well, and has having larger islands, tables which only seat two people, and many other different combinations. Be creative, be original, because after all, it’s your wedding, not somebody else’s.

Yet another common assumption is that when creating wedding table plans each table should be numbered. Why? Numbering tables denotes a hierarchy, and a hierarchy is almost certainly going to make some people feel rather less important to the event that they had done previously. Instead of table numbers, name your tables. This gives you a fantastic opportunity to tie in wedding table plans with the theme of the wedding itself, or at least the Bride and Groom.

Author Bio: Toptableplanner is an online tool for arranging wedding table plans. Drag and drop your guests and tables with ease until you’ve created the perfect plan. There’s even a list of ideas for wedding table numbers to get you started.

Category: Marriage
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