How to seat your guests at your Wedding Reception: here come my tips!
Alessandra 01/10/2024 0
Deciding on the seating arrangements for your guests can be one of the trickiest tasks in wedding planning. Yes, I fully understand it! Usually, invitees like to know where they’re sitting and with whom and if you’re having a considerable number of guests, a hundred or more, you’ll want to make sure everyone sits at the right table.
There are many couples who start their seating arrangements just some days before their ceremony, but I’m sure you will have more important things to think about at such times. Since you have enough time to think about one of the last tasks on your wedding-to-do-list ….Here come my tips on how to arrange the wedding seats!
Table shapes come first
Before you start your seating arrangements, you should have already pick the shape of your tables. The size and the shape of your tables will tell you more about the number of invitees who can be seated at each one. Traditionally, round tables tend to be the most preferred ones… but lately even the imperial tables are in vogue allowing a greater number of seats due to their capacity.
Bear your venue in mind
When it comes to setting tables and guests up, the second most important point is definitely your venue! Older guests, for example, may prefer to be seated a little further from the band or out loud music. On the flip side, your friends may prefer to be given the best seats in the room to join the dance floor with you!
Mix & Match your guests
Once you’re sure about who’s coming to your ceremony, mix and match your invitees according to their relationships and interests creating true and proper small groups of people, such as: family members, old friends, work colleagues, distant relatives and so on. This will help you to make every guest feel comfortable with other invitees during the wedding ceremony having a pleasant chat or why not meeting new people.
Where and with Whom?
Classically, the newlyweds seat at their ‘special table’ in the middle of the room – where everyone can see them – and depending on how large the table is…the Groom and the Bride could sit with the maid of honor and the best man. Regarding the parents of the couple, they often take sit opposite each other at large family tables, with grandparents or close family friends. Considering another option, you could also arrange them at the same rectangular table if it is long enough!
Keep your friends close
Your friends should take a seat at the third-best tables in the entire room. You should bear in mind: the first is the newlyweds’ table, the second is parents’ table and the third nearest table is reserved to your coolest friends!
Don’t forget the kids
If you’re inviting several kids to your ceremony, you should seat them together at the ‘kids’ table’. Do not forget give them some activities in order to keep the kids busy during the lunch or dinner – their parents will appreciate it! On the other hand, if your flower girls and the ring boy are the only kids invited, let them simply seat with their parents.
Wedding tableau & place cards
As soon as you’ve figured out where to seat everyone, you need to decide how to lead them to their seats. Usually, places are displayed by table in a Wedding Tableau placed near the entrance of the reception, listing your guests’ names with their assigned tables. In addition, if you want you can place cards at each table to give clear seats or leave your invitees free to choose how to seat by themselves.
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Let 2021 be the happy one!
Alessandra
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The global pandemic forced you and your Groom-to-be to move your Wedding Day to 2021 or beyond, but what if you still want to have a great Wedding celebration? There are so many different special ways to say your ‘Yes,I dos’ now… But how do you get started? Find out more here!
Rethink your Stationery
By the time the pandemic hit, most couples of betrothed sent out the greater part of their Wedding stationery or save-the-date cards at least. And if you’re planning to have a micro-Wedding celebration, you should rethink the paper items you already have without ordering new invitations. Then, add to your invitations a ‘change of plans’ card to send out to your closest family and friends and that’s it!
Choose Wisely
Most likely, you & your Groom want to invite everyone you know to celebrate your special day… But the premise of a micro-Wedding is to celebrate your love just with your closest relatives and dearest friends. Hence, choose wisely your loved ones!
Adjust your Wedding Design
Even if you may want to go with the very same color-palette and flower arrangements you initially chose, I suggest you opt for something different for your micro-Wedding. There are so many blooms and color schemes, don’t get stuck just on the first one!
Find the Right Wedding Venue
Social distancing is paramount, even at a micro-Wedding, so it’s important to consider an open-air setting that will allow guests to have their own space. Our Coast hosts so many secret gardens, private beaches and terraces to choose as a setting of your micro-Wedding where you can easily have a small intimate group in a larger space!
Go for a Single-serve Menu
In order to keep everyone safe, you should go for a single-serve Menu… Mini-bottles of sparkling water, fresh drinks or wine for each guest and pre-plated appetizers with a mix of everything or small portions of fresh culinary specialties for food. Your guests will appreciate it!
Pay attention to the Details
Details are what make your celebration unique to the two of you, so don’t underestimate them for your micro-Wedding… Without a huge number of guests, including personal touches will be more doable! Things like personal vows, calligraphy place cards, serving a favorite dish for dinner or interactive ceremony elements that get your guests involved can make your day unforgettable!
Consider a Destination Wedding
If it’s something you’ve always dreamed of, start looking into how to make it happen… A micro-Wedding might be the best occasion to celebrate your Destination Wedding!
Beautiful venues and my professional work are at your disposal to plan the most romantic micro-Wedding for you on our gorgeous Amalfi Coast!
Alessandra
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Gary and Vanessa: love that endures through time
Gary e Vanessa: l’amore che resiste al tempo
Gary and Vanessa were accompanied by our team for celebration of their renewal of vows.
Gary e Vanessa sono stati accompagnati dal nostro team per la celebrazione del loro rinnovo dei voti.
A couple so in love and sunny who wanted a minimal ceremony inspired by purity to let that the wonderful setting of Amalfi Coast emerged in all the magic of colors and scents.
Una coppia innamoratissima e solare che ha desiderato una cerimonia minimal e ispirata alla purezza per lasciare che la cornice della meravigliosa Costa D’Amalfi emergesse in tutta la magia di colori e profumi.
The mise en Place and the intimate athmosphere have been the setting for a fun evening in which the cheerfulness of this couple involved the guest and grooms in a vortex of emotions which are resisting to time.
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Let's do it again: your Wedding on the Amalfi Coast!
Let’s do it again: your Wedding on the Amalfi Coast!
Italian Wedding & Amalfi Coast Private Event
After dark periods and months of uncertainties, Italy is finally back and Weddings as well. It’s the news we’ve all been waiting for!
The Campania Region, a few days ago, launched a new security protocol for the resumption of the activities of Wedding and Private Events that will begin in early June.
For all the couples of betrothed, who between moments of joy and moments of uncertainty, had a thousand questions about what their marriage would be like, how many loved ones could have been invited and what could have been done or not during their Wedding Ceremony on the Amalfi Coast, without giving up the Wedding of their dreams, here are some rules to be followed:
- Location & Organization
Each location must provide security measures to be respected during your ceremony by organizing available spaces to ensure the distance between the guests. In addition, the location must have the guest list 14 days prior to the event. - Keeping the distance!
During your Wedding Ceremony, the tables will be arranged respecting the distance of at least 1 meter among the guests, both for outdoors and indoors. Only exception: to be part of the same family. - Masks, masks, masks
Your guests will have to wear the mask in every internal room when they leave the table. However, for outdoor ceremonies, the guests must wear the mask only if they can’t respect the distance of 1 meter. - Even the buet has its own rules!
For lunch or dinner, the Bride and Groom can choose a buet service served at the tables or self-service, only for single portions and always avoiding gatherings. - Can you dance?
If you’ve planned live music or a band that will entertain your guests during the Wedding, it will be mandatory to respect the distance of at least 2 meters between the artists and the public. Be careful! It will be necessary to avoid occasions of aggregation, in particular, in indoor locations. - Self-declaration & Green Pass
Your guests must fill out a self-declaration form and submit a green pass, a sort of certification which attests to possible vaccination or recovery from Covid or still negativity to the tampon carried out 48h before the ceremony.
You can’t stop dreams!
For all the news about your Wedding Ceremony and your Private Event on the Amalfi Coast you can contact me here: info@weddingamalfi.com
Alessandra