The placement of guests at your wedding table is important to the overall success of your wedding dinner and dance. It may seem like a minor detail when you have a million and one other important wedding issues to consider, but if you seat the wrong people together, or make your guests feel uncomfortable, you will regret it.
Place card holders, especially fancy ones, are a really nice addition to your reception tables and they serve a very important purpose – they tell your wedding guests where to sit for dinner. Don’t assume for a moment, that everyone will know where to sit, or that all of your guests will be at ease sitting at a table full of strangers. However, if you ‘put’ them together, you are giving them a valid reason to sit at that table – their name is on the place card. It also helps to move things along.
If you leave 200 guests to fend for themselves, it could take hours before everyone is seated. Furthermore, you need a way to inconspicuously inform the wait staff of who ordered what meal. You may use two different place card holders – the starfish place card holders are having sea bass, and the silver shell place card holders are having roast beef. Or you could simply put an F (for fish) or B (for beef) in the top corner of each place card. Another good method is to tie ribbons around the place card holders in different colors to signify the meal choices.
Place card holders can be purchased to match your wedding theme as well starfish or shell holders for a beach theme, silver fortune cookies for an Asian theme, snowflakes for a winter theme – you get the idea! The other hidden benefit of place card holders is that if you purchase nice ones, you can let your guests take them home when the affair is over, and thus you have just killed two birds with one stone since the place card holders can easily double as wedding guest favours. What a great way to stretch a wedding budget and still offer your esteemed wedding guests a nice thank you gift.
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