How to make a wedding seating chart
Do it after your RSVP deadline, when the guest list is final, and work from the most important tables outwards:
- Start with the top table or sweetheart table, then parents and grandparents near the front.
- Seat people with someone they know - every guest should know at least one other person at their table.
- Group by circles: college friends, work friends, each side's extended family.
- Keep older guests away from the speakers and close to the exits and restrooms.
- Put families with young children near the doors.
- Leave one or two seats free for last-minute changes.
Seating chart, escort cards or place cards?
A seating chart is one big sign showing every table and who sits there. Escort cards tell each guest their table; place cards sit at each setting and tell them their seat. Most weddings use a seating chart plus place cards. In BrideSpark both are filled in from your seating plan, so a late change only needs to be made once.