Wedding Table Plans: 3 Different Approaches Compared

May 4th, 2010 by admin

By Adam Leyton

When it comes to creating a wedding table plan, there are three
possible ways in which you could approach the task. These three
different approaches could be referred to as post-it, perfect-it
and print-it. Let’s see how these wedding table plans work out.

Post-It Wedding Table Plans
The post-it approach involves carefully writing out all of your
wedding guests’ names on separate scraps of paper of post-it
notes. You then clear a large space in the middle of your living
room and start laying out the scraps of paper in your initial
and somewhat over confident manner. Once you realise that your
top table is about a mile and a half long you break it up and
start shuffling the paper around a bit more. After a couple of
hours you think you’ve cracked it, so you hastily copy all the
names and the layout onto a piece of paper. However, every time
a guest says they can’t make it after all, you leap to the
floor, spread out all your post-it notes and have another go.
Using this approach to develop a wedding table plan will at
least give you plenty of time to check out how clean your carpet
is.

Perfect-It Wedding Table Plans
The perfect-it approach doesn’t bother with the scraps of
paper, but instead involves setting aside a full afternoon, with
a large sheet of high quality paper, a set of pens and a guest
list. The tables are all drawn out beautifully, and the guests’
names are added directly into place with great care and much
forethought. All seems to go amazingly well for much of the time
until you get towards the end when you suddenly realise that
you’re left with a combination of people who aren’t likely to
help things run smoothly. You seem to have no choice but to
place your sister’s ex-boyfriend on the same table as you
sister’s other ex-boyfriend, his new boyfriend and his
boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend. Didn’t families and relationships
used to be simpler than this? Wiping away the tears you discard
your effort, and start afresh. With this approach to creating a
wedding table plan, who needs pubs or hobbies?

Print-It Wedding Table Plans
The print-it method doesn’t involve scraps of paper of an
afternoon creating a work of art. Instead you use a simple
online tool to upload your wedding guest names, then click and
drag them around, plonking them in roughly the right places.
Once you have a rough draft it’s time to shuffle a few of them
about until you get it right. Whenever guests have to cancel, or
you decide to invite someone else, you simply log on, bring up
the plan on screen and either remove a name, add a name and then
drag a few guests into new locations. Once the big day arrives
you click the print button, and out pops as many copies of your
wedding table plan as you need, along with individually
formatted place cards too. Using this approach you may find you
have too much spare time though.

When it comes to creating a wedding table plan, don’t trust
your guests, and don’t commit too much of your own time and
effort. The Law of Wedding Table Plans dictates that there is a
direct correlation between the amount of time and effort you
invest in creating a wedding table plan and the likelihood that
one or more of your guests will screw the whole thing up at the
last minute.

About the Author: http://www.toptableplanner.com is an online
tool that can assist you with creating your wedding table plan
simply, quickly and without stress. Just add or import your
guests and then move them around the screen, re-arranging as
many times as you like.

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