Seaseing guests behind the wedding table is an important organizational point. The psychological comfort of the invited and the overall mood of the holiday depends on the proposed disorder of the seating. Therefore, this event is given close attention, and at the same time all sorts of related factors are taken into account.
The main types and distribution schemes of tables
Before starting planning and draw up an invited scheme, you should decide on the location of holiday tables. There is a lot of options and which one to choose, depends on the number of guests invited, the area of the banquet hall and personal preferences of the groom with the bride. First of all, it is necessary to inspect the place of the future banquet and make an accurate plan of the premises. It is desirable to display the floor heights, the location of windows, doors and a DJ table, as well as the presence of columns, their location and quantity.
Also, you should learn from the employees of the institution, what form and size will be tables, and whether the administration admits their movement. This is due to the fact that in some cafes and restaurants, the tables are already placed taking into account the architectural solution of the premises and the convenience of service personnel and they are not allowed to rearrange them. If the manager's manager is not against the movement of the tables, then you can start choosing the scheme of their location. Below are the most popular options for location, Among which are present both traditional options and sufficiently new, and sometimes unexpected.
- Classic scheme. This method is considered the most simple and applied on solemn banquets with a limited number of invited. In the hall there are one long table compiled from several, adjacent to each other closely small tables. The chapter always sit down the culprits of the celebration, and the young spouse sit down to the right of her husband, and on both sides of the newlyweds there are witnesses and parents. In case of seating, guests at a common table use a traditional scheme at which men and women alternate.
- T-shaped method Table locations for a long time was the most common option. Such a location is not better suited for solemn banquets with a number of up to 25 people passing in small areas of the halls. The bride and the bride sit down at the head of the table, witness and parents follow them, and the rest of the guests are cleared as it is convenient for them, since the T-shaped location contributes to a good visibility of the invited, and allows you to see everyone from any place to hear each of the guests from those present.
- P-shaped Table layouts are suitable for more numerous weddings, at which the number of invited reaches 50 people. This also includes a W-shaped location, which is used in cases where the number of invited exceeds 60 people. However, in both ways of arrangement, it is necessary to pay a great attention to the dedication of guests and in no case will not let it on a self-shot. This requirement is due to the fact that a significant part of the invited will be placed back to each other. It will seriously make it difficult to communicate between close people who did not get a place for one "sleeve" of the table, and will force them to eat and communicate in the cold.
Next, European options for the location of the tables are followed, which were rapidly adopted by Russian restaurants and events organizers and began to be widely used when conducting solemn banquets. The main feature of the European scheme is the presence in the hall of the detached tables speakers as an alternative to the common table. This method is very convenient when clearing people in interest, age and degree of kinship.
Young spouses are also sitting at a separate table, while witnesses and parents are located behind the neighboring tables. However, this innovation, along with the admirers, there are opponents that argue that such a location makes somewhat difficult to communicate guests sitting at the neighboring tables, and in the case of their sufficient remoteness from each other and does not reduce it at all. In order to avoid such moments and not to turn the wedding in several absolutely independent and non-intersecting friends with each other, Tamada is attracted. And if the invited organizer is really a master of his case, he skillfully and correctly be able to organize joint contests, games and quizzes and easily overbabor all guests.
If the presence of Tamada at the event is not provided, then there are certain risks that guests sitting at individual tables do not intersect in any way during the banquet and bounce. Therefore, when choosing European options for the arrangement, the moment of communication must be taken into account.
- Italian fashion I assumes the placement of square tables for four persons set in a checker order. Installing tables should be so that guests from anywhere can freely see the main table, followed by young. For a better review, the newlywed table is placed on the stage or exaltation, which allows them to communicate freely with guests, and to see and hear spouses present well.
- English version It assumes the use of round or oval tables, which are searched for eight people. According to the majority of European psychologists, it is such a number of people is the most comfortable for communication in a narrow circle. The English style also includes another interesting way, in which guests are searched in such a way that none of them is spinning to the young. For this, the chairs are placed only on one side of the tables, dissolving those present by the semicircle. For similarity with the location of the chairs in the institution of the same name, the method was called "Cabaret".
- Collection of tables "Yelochka" It is an averaged version between European and traditional ways. In this case, the young people are also sitting behind a detached table, and the rest of the tables, usually by 8-12 persons, are diagonally from the main one, in parallel to each other. Guests with this accommodation must dissolve along two long sides of the table, the side parts remain unoccupied.
With such an arrangement, the central part of the banquet hall usually remains free, turning into a place for playing, competitions and dances. When arranged by the "Christmas tree", the ends of all tables should look at the table of newlyweds and in no case vice versa. The location, in which he looks at it, one of the long sides of the guest table is incorrect.
- American fashion The arrangements lies in the fact that along the perimeter of the room, long tables are installed with the kushans located on them, and each invited comes and chooses everything he liked. In the center of the hall, two long tables are installed and put them in parallel to each other. Guests, taking the dish favor, are sitting on any of them and eat. Newlyweds are sitting at a separate table located perpendicular to two guests. The advantage of the American version of the buffet is a significant reduction in food costs, and the minuses include the need for self-service, which many guests can not approve.
- Expustion "Buffet" It is used in the case when the organization of a lush banquet is not planned, and the couple immediately after registration is serving in a wedding trip. Under such circumstances, the ideal option will be the installation of bunting tables without the use of chairs. The tables usually have drinks and light snacks, and the event itself resembles a short party.
Ways to indicate seats
Before planning seating, you need to write a full list of guests and send them invitations. After the answers are obtained, you can proceed to the preparation of the plan. In order for people to dissolve people, it does not arise confusion, and each quickly found his place, in the lobby of the banquet hall, there is a colorful stand or easel with the image of the seating scheme. Cards with guest names are attached to it and indicating the table number and landing sites.
The form of the information poster and its layout must be thought out in advance, this will allow you to create the necessary props without a rush and it is beautifully issued. So, for weddings held in the country style, it will be appropriate to make a poster in the form of the window and arrange it on a tripod. If the wedding passes in a vintage style, then you can take a stylized board and make all the necessary information on it. An interesting option will be the writing of the rooms of the tables and guests of the guests a marker on a glass bench.
However, make an easel or poster can not only with a list. It can be a beautifully drawn plan for the banquet hall. On it, guests are easily focused and will know which part of the premises to pass. In addition, if the tables are placed in the European style, each of them can be assigned their original name. Options can serve as wines, names of garden colors, gems, dances or shades. In the event that the number of invited more than 15 people, then you need to do 2-3 identical instances and place them in different places of the hall. It will save people from the need to stand in line in order to find out their place and will promote fast and calm seating.
Each number on the stand corresponds to its card with the desired number or the name of the guest. They are packed at the tables, and the invited to easily find the right place and sit down. When creating a layout of cards, you need to take into account that the name of the guest looks much more spectacular of faceless figures, so it is better to additionally puzzle and make them named. In addition, such cards continue to line with the overall style of the event and show guests, as far as each of them is important for young.
Card design should repeat the design of invitation and closely intertwined with the decoration of the hall and the color trends of the celebration. The names of the peers are prescribed without an indication of the patronymic, while for the older generation people, his writing is necessarily, however, in both cases it is better not to write. The exception is the presence of two or more people on a banquet with the same name. In this case, writing the surname is necessary.
Options for registration
A stand with a list and registered cards can be ordered in the printing house, whose specialists will help to choose the desired design, corresponding to the main style and the idea of the holiday. However, printed products, no matter how beautiful it, a little came, and no one is no longer impressive, so if there is free time, it is better to arrange props. Homemade postcards look much soul-printed on the printer and will be remembered for the guests of the holiday.
The technology of mapping cards is as follows:
- Cardboard cut the cards with a size of 10x10 cm and bend them in half;
- On one piece glit cut from color paper with a number of space and table numbers, and on another beautiful font they write the name of the guest;
- The background of the postcard must correspond to the total color of the holiday, and the numbers must be the same color spectrum, but a little darker;
- The edges of the card are decorated with a satin braid, which is tied in a bow and decorated with a bead;
- The left upper and the right bottom corners of both parts of the postcard are made up with glitters, the main thing is that they are not too much, and they did not cover the figure and the name.
In the manufacture of cards it is necessary to make several unfilled instances. This will help to quickly add a name and sit down a suddenly changed guest, who refused the invitation of a previously new person who came with someone from the invited.
You can place the cards in different ways: it can be a classic house or heart or a circle, cut from below and put on a fuer. If time and means allow, you can put a small gift box with a name and some kind of symbolic surprise inside the name and some symbolic surprise inside. Excellent and cards performed in origami techniques placed on plates and decorated with sweets or flowers.
Rules and Tips for Composing Plan
After the placement scheme of the tables and the method of specifying places will be selected, you can proceed to drawing up the list: who from the guests with whom will sit nearby. To do this, use simple recommendations, Which will help to maximize comfortably place each of the guests, in this way to him interesting interlocutors and a pleasant company.
- At any location of the tables, it is desirable that all guests have the opportunity to see the culprits of the celebration.
- Parents and close relatives are seated as close as possible to young, taking into account the age and degree of kinship of relatives.
- If there are high-ranking officials on the banquet, they are recommended to plant them for a separate table, as close as possible to the newlyweds. Moreover, they should not sit in one table with their parents: this will lead to the fact that both will feel awkward and not really go anything. The optimal option will be seated next to the close friends of the Newlyweds. At this age, the guys still feel quite relaxed, and the presence of high ranks will not be embarrassed.
- Divorced couples should be destroyed apart from each other, and to warn each of them about the presence of a former spouse on a banquet should be in advance.
- Guests who came alone should not be attached to family couples or the companies of old friends. It is better to find such a person of the same lonely interlocutor, which, however, often leads to new long acquaintances, and possibly to the formation of new relations.
- Inseparable company of colleagues on the side of the spouse, it is better to satisfy next to the same friendly company of friends or classrooms from the wife. As a rule, such two teams quickly find a common language and spend time enough.
- People with cheerful and perky temperament are recommended to alternate at the table with shiven and calm guests. Otherwise, the same tables will be a stormy fun, and behind the other banquet risks turning into a silent meal. In addition, interests and hobbies are also preferably considered.
- Children, if there are more than three people, it is advisable to post up for a separate table with adapted to their age food and drinks. This is due to the fact that not all guests are ready to lose the presence of small children, and finding the common table of squeezing karapuse can deliver discomfort to many present. The children's desk is recommended to be located away from newlyweds and sound equipment. The last rate is especially important, since the music support of the holiday is often quite loud and can harm children's hearing.
- Foreign guests are better seeding with people, a little speaking in their native language, or with English-speaking guests.
The correct seating of the invited will help avoid awkward and conflict situations and will allow you to hold a holiday in a friendly atmosphere of love and fun
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