The arrangement of guests at the tables, the unusual monster of organizing a wedding.

How difficult can it be? Take 10 meals and distribute 10 guests, on average, to each. You choose them based on ruby ​​rank, based on friends or based on age and interests. It’s the last thing you do for the wedding: you’ve already ticked off a whole agenda of meetings and a whole year’s salary. What can be so complicated?

When a bride asks me if she can keep quiet and if she has something «difficult» to do, I give her a little warning about The corvoada of the guests of the guests at the tables. I’m not joking with anything when I say I feel like it an extremely challenging step on the planning side. The rest falls into the hands of professionals, they take care of one or the other to make it go well. But the final guest list, along with their placement in the event space, are responsibilities that only brides can take on. For some lucky people there is a flower in the ear, but they talk about the vast majority of people who have little and crazy, trying to make the perfect match. It will happen, more than sure, when you already feel tired. The moment you don’t want to answer any phones. When you want everything to end and rest, finally, without any permanent XLS file on your laptop screen.

What needs to be done? If you’re not the type to wait for the salt drool to fall, act preventatively. Even if we send the wedding invitations three months or more before the wedding, We left the guest list until the endto protect us from surprises. That doesn’t mean we can’t preemptively orient ourselves toward a table that will thank everyone, with a little care and a little tact.

*Try to think about it the location of meals as soon as possible. Depending on the number of meals and their type you will also determine the number of floral arrangements, the number of rented table seats, the number of printed prints, decorative objects, etc. An estimate as close to reality as possible of the necessary meals leads to simpler planning, from the point of view of the time/energy invested, but also of the allocated budget. I know, it’s a vicious circle that we can’t guess the definitive number of guests, but it’s good to try an estimate, however far from the truth. You can create from here useful work scenarios -for example, if there are 20 more guests, we will move the staff to another room; If there are 10 fewer we will expand the dance floor or make room for the much desired chocolate bar etc…

* Invitations to groups in listsaffinities, interests, age and so on. You will already have the right cores to sit at the tables. People who don’t know each other will feel better with guests who are close to the same age. If you have several couples of this type you can put them all around a table, as long as there is no animosity between them.

* Try not to accept all the seats at the tables of the first settlement. Leave room for the guests announced in the last hundred meters and for the final moves. It is easier to accommodate someone in an «empty» place than to have to rearrange a table with too many guests.

* Start eating at meals by the most demanding (We include here the relatives we know, with the “good and bad”, the leaders, the guests of the goddesses, etc.) and we end with those we feel most understanding (the closest friends, brothers, sisters, etc.).

*Take this into account the people they connect. Who knows who? Have the parents invited relatives from another city? Try placing them on nearby tables. Don’t let people shut you down and isolate someone, just because you feel better right now. Think about weddings you’ve had and how you were seated. If you didn’t like something, try not to make the same mistake again.

* Assuming that you will have round banquets, don’t be afraid to juggle the number of guests, from eight to twelve, depending on the couples you manage to create and on room space.

* Than a huge dance floor, better space for meals. If you have to sacrifice the dance space to put another table, do it without regrets. There is nothing more unpleasant than bumping your elbows against your neighbor at the table. I know there will be many who will suggest the opposite, starting from the DJ, continuing with a zealous salon manager up to the choreographers for the bride’s dance. I tell you that the priority should be the comfort of guests. If the salon is too small, then it might be a good idea to reconsider the guest list.

* Finally, do not forget that seniors should be positioned as far as possible from the speakers and the stage and have easy access to amenities (lift, stairs, exit, toilet cubicles). Parents should be as close as possible to their relatives and friends, and young people should be closer to the dance floor.

Ready? Constant. Party!

*Sursa photo- Style Me Pretty / Heather Roth Fine Art Photography