Just Bee Fashion: seating charts

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

This Seat is Reserved...

At many of the weddings I have attended lately it seems as if people have forgotten who is meant to sit where. Traditionally the closest family should sit nearest to the front of the ceremony area and for a Christian wedding the bride's family and friends sit on the left with the groom's family and friends on the right. Jewish wedding ceremonies are the opposite, therefore as bride and groom it is very important to decide where you want people to be seated and you need to inform your ushers. The bride's mother is always the last to be seated as this signals that the ceremony is about to begin. If you do not want people to forget at your wedding, you not create this beautiful reserved signs to get your message across?

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Please Find Your Seat....

Brides often say that one of the most difficult parts of planning their wedding is deciding where everyone must sit. Once that is figured out then how do they display the seating chart and must they have a seating chart- what about escort cards? Basically any wedding should have table numbers, a seating chart and place cards or escort cards.

Seating charts are one of the first things guests see when arriving at the reception therefore it needs to fit in with the mood of the rest of your wedding. Lately many couples prefer to use escort cards because then they do not need to make individual place cards and they can also use the escort card as the guests' wedding favour. If the couple uses escort cards in place of a seating chart and place cards then they only need to decide which tables people sit at and not exactly where they sit at that table. There are endless options for couples when they create their table charts, place cards, table numbers and escort cards some of which require DIY projects, with some of the most popular resources being chalk boards, glass, vintage frames and mirrors.

Table Numbers