Wedding Reception - Good manners - Place guests
Deciding on the shape of tables and assign each a particular place is an exercise of high diplomacy. Not to offend neither the one nor the other. And ensure that usability is appropriate.
Know this, rarely wedding reception everyone happy. Followers of tradition inevitably rub those who swear by the non-formal. If free placement - putting everyone wherever he wants, except for the wedding table - gaining ground, in reality it creates more problems than it solves: clans occur naturally and some may feel isolated, left out. Assign seats in advance is recommended. This system shows that the newlyweds and their families were concerned for everyone, helps link knowledge with guests in which one side would be spent, takes care of the timid who do not go to others and established the link between members of two families . Before you think about your seating plans, prepare a checklist that you keep up to date until the day before your wedding, because unfortunately the disclaimers Last minute is always a risk.
THE CHECK-LIST ESSENTIAL TOOL
Step 1: list guests What exactly is their number? * Who are the representatives of each family? * Blended families are present? Is it necessary to exclude persons from each other? * How many children? How old? * The guests know each other? * Is there enmities? * Do you have guests to honor?
Note: Whatever the form adopted, it is imperative to provide space Additional guests for the last hour (or for those who invite themselves!).
Step 2 : Set the number of tables
Once the number of guests stopped, usually between six to eight weeks before the ceremony, calculate the number of tables.
If your number of guests is less than twenty, it will be difficult to separate them. A large oval or rectangular table will be most suitable for the bride and groom are the center of the festivities. If their number exceeds twenty, several tables are needed.
professionals suggest tables of eight guests for less than fifty covers, tables of ten to eighty, twelve tables beyond eighty. Exceeded this number, it is difficult to establish dialogue. Roundtables are always pleasant to chat, but also for the aesthetic. Note: U-shaped arrangement such as that in T are unfashionable. Sure, they allow everyone to enjoy married, but their side medieval banquet is cooling. They are anyway not recommended when the guests are many.
Step 3 : choose the type of investment
See what formula you prefer to top table. Several schools of thought.
· The classic formula: a table met the bride and groom, witnesses, relatives, grandparents, and possibly the sponsors. She faces at other tables. Advantages: This arrangement allows closer ties between the two families and solves at the same time, many problems of etiquette. Disadvantages: delicate placement for stepfamilies, unless an agreement between all perfect.
· formula more contemporary, with several table: the first includes the bride and groom, their witnesses and close friends, the second is headed by the mother of the tide and the father of the groom and the third by the mother of the groom and the bride's father. Advantages: it is perfect if there are many guests from the parents' generation, people to honor or professional relationships, and to mix families. Cons: a little formal provision, which may also offend some guests.
· Joint Formula offers an alternative: a table of honor reserved for married, their witnesses and their families. The remains free tables without investment. Pros: everyone is housed in the same boat, the risk of jealousy among the guests will be less. It is geographically ideal for families who have not seen for a long time. Disadvantages: can the shy wallflower. To be avoided if the majority of guests do not know them.
If the form does not excites you, here's another solution: table service, with investment designated for hot food and a buffet for cheese and dessert, which allows guests to move to second portion of meal they want.
Step 4: Action on D-Day! · Display at the entrance of the hall plan with a list of guests per table. Ask is the tradition, your witnesses to help in the placement of guests. On each table, have the very last moment bristol indicating the name of the guest.
SOME IDEAS
The reception will be more successful than you have made the investment with subtlety. If the tables of adolescents and children (with baby-sitter to watch them) do not pose a real problem, the latter being always happy find themselves away from adults, do not make a distribution by age groups. Be careful not to offend the elderly by calling a special table for them. Like everyone else, they prefer to be placed affinities with interests in life (sports, travel, art ...). Take particular care at the tables where the two families are met: both the others being asked to meet again, much success that first time.
Do not number tables but give them the name of a theme, the guests will remember more. You're Elvis fans? Give each table the title of a song "Love Me Tender," "Blue Swede Shoes" ... You go on honeymoon in India? Call the tables "Taj Mahal", "Pondicherry". Your fiance is a huge fan of Tintin? Choose "The Crab with the Golden Claws", "The Blue Lotus" ... Unleash your imagination to create the table leaves. You can find two-color card stock that align with the floral decoration (3.80 € 10) or white models (4 € 25) that "ennobled" by an inscription gold or silver. 
What says the label? For a sit-down dinner, the newlyweds are at the center of the table, framed in their respective controls. To the right of the witness of the bride, her mother and stepfather. To the left of the groom's best man, his mother and his stepfather. The table will be completed by the parents. If several tables are set up honor: the first will be presided by the bride and groom, their witnesses at their side, the second by the mother of the bride and the groom's father and the third by the mother of the groom and the bride's father . Note: married couples can be separated dice they have more than a year of marriage, engaged couples, however, never are. By Anne Robin
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