Wedding Place Card Ideas for Your Reception Tables
If you are going to have a lot of wedding guests and you're serving a seated meal as opposed to a serve-yourself buffet, assigned seating may be necessary to ensure that guests receive the proper dinner. Our wedding place card ideas can help eliminate unnecessary hassles over food allergies or main course preferences. Assigned seating can also help avoid potential problems or hard feelings that may arise by placing people who do not get along with each other on opposite sides of the room; this occasionally occurs if the bride or groom's parents have been divorced and remarried.
Place cards can be as simple or as elegant as you so choose;
they can match the table decorations or your wedding invitations and programs.
You can even attach them to wedding favors that are on the tables.
All reception tables should have a number which is easily visible, and place cards can be handled in one of two ways. An alphabetical list may be posted somewhere at the front of the reception venue so guests can learn which table they should sit at. Once the guests locate their assigned table in the room, they can simply glance at the place settings and find their name on a place card. You may also choose to have one table full of place cards that include both the guest's name and their table number. They can then opt to sit at any chair at their assigned table and place the card at their seat themselves.
Place cards are not a necessity; if you're having a wedding reception in your own backyard or an informal buffet-style dinner you may not even want to worry about a formal seating system. Obviously people may decide to sit elsewhere, but our wedding place card ideas may come in handy if you'd like to include them at your reception.