Seating Charts

A little prompt sign next to the chart saved me from a guest line that nearly hit the bar.

We had 38 guests and I almost skipped the seating chart, then my aunt called the Tuesday before asking who she’d be next to.

I propped my seating chart on a thrifted easel that tipped over twice before the doors opened, so here is what actually holds these things up.

I went alphabetical after my cousin spent four minutes hunting for her name at a friend’s reception, and I have not looked back.

I taped my rustic seating chart to a barn door at 7am and a gust of wind tried to claim it twice before guests showed up.

How I turned a table of escort cards into the first thing guests actually stopped to look at, without buying a single thing twice.

I redrew our table layout four times on the back of a takeout menu before I figured out where to put my uncle who hates everyone.

I have edited a seating chart at a kitchen table with two glasses of wine and a guest who kept switching tables, so here are the ones that survived me.

I leaned a mirror seating chart against a ladder at my cousin’s wedding and held my breath every time someone walked past it.

The seating sign was the one thing that made my reception feel like I knew what I was doing, and it cost me about four dollars in cardstock.