For starters, though, please see this photo of Fiance in his "traveling hat" outside of our B&B, the morning of the wedding:
Meanwhile, during the six plus hour drive between my dad's house in New Jersey and our charming B&B in Barnet, VT, Fiance and I finalized the guest list and began our seating arrangements. We're expecting a fairly high acceptance rate, mostly because we're only inviting people that we're pretty sure really want to attend the wedding.
So, by setting up our ideal table assignments ahead of time, when we get those inevitable declines, we'll know exactly who to pull up from the B-list to round out the gatherings. We've tiered our B list into basically it's own A, B, and C lists, so if a college-age friend declines, we know that we have an opening at a table of college-age people and can invite someone appropriate from the B:A list. This way, hopefully not too many of our seating arrangements will need to be redone from scratch, though I'm sure it can't be entirely avoided.
While we had originally thought to identify "core" couples that we could build tables around (and that is how we started trying to do them), we found that we eventually tended more towards "themed" tables with certain social groups of guests gathered together. This might be a little less exciting and dynamic than the sort of mixed-bag personality matching that we'd thought to do, it's not only easier but will more reliably result in everyone having a good time. I think we've still mixed people in enough that you'll need to get up from your table to go chat with at least *someone* that you've been looking forward to seeing, but that you haven't been abandoned with a pack of wild strangers.
For the finalization of the chart, there's plenty of fancy software you can use, but I expect we'll do it the old-fashioned way, which will end up looking a lot like this:
Originally via ffffound.com
Anyone have any experience/advice on how to decide on seating assignments?
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