Floor plan

Any pictures or diagrams of your venue reception space? I might have ideas if I can see what kind of space you are working with!

I would agree that you should talk to your venue, we asked all kinds of questions about layout when we were first looking and they showed us where things have to be and what size the tables and chairs are and where we can put the head table etc. Our venue also has a separate buffet room so we knew we didn't need to allow for buffet tables if we were doing that.

That's a good point! Your floor plan could completely change once the RSVPs come back! We ended up with half of what we were expecting and had to make some major changes.

Yeah I agree that you should reach out to your venue because usually they already have one created for the space and can edit it according to your needs. Also, they have all the measurements and know how many tables they can fit within the area and can make sure that they're properly spaced apart, etc. Are they providing the tables and chairs or do you have to rent them from an outside vendor? If you're getting them from the venue, they may only have a certain number of tables so you should check with them to see what they have. We did a mix of rounds and rectangular tables based off of what they had.

Do you have a particular style in mind? Do you want rounds or long banquet tables?

And don't be afraid to ask your venue to make changes for you! Just because they "always" do weddings this way, doesn't necessarily mean it will work for you and you'll never know unless you ask them!

I have 124 people and I am doing 14 round tables of 8

Hi Dustin! Welcome to the community! I'm so glad to hear that you're already starting to plan your tables! I guess it depends what kind of tables you will have. Will they be round or rectangular?

Are you planning to have a buffet or seated dinner? What about the dance floor?

You could have something like this:

Seated dinner

Buffet tables

How do you like these settings?

What kind of venue did you book?

Does your venue have any suggestions for ideal layouts? Without knowing your space it's nearly impossible to make suggestions. But your venue has likely held MANY MANY events there and could have seen some great ideas for using the space!