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Cliodhna
WeddingWire Admin January 2030 Galway

Seating Chart - Old School or Online?

Cliodhna, on December 16, 2019 at 09:05 Posted in Wedding reception 0 20
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It’s definitely not the most fun of wedding tasks! How do you plan on plotting and planning out where guests will sit? Will you use an online seating chart tool (like WeddingWire’s) or go old school with poster board and post-its?

How are you creating your seating chart? Old school or online?


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Latest activity by Kat D, on January 8, 2020 at 22:47
  • Kat D
    Frequent user April 2021 Manitoba
    Kat D ·
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    I'm using All Seated to plan out our seating chart then I'm going make a physical one for the venue.
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  • Erika
    Beginner July 2020 Alberta
    Erika ·
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    I used Wedding Wire's. We're only having about 70 guests so it wasn't complicated at all.

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  • Steph
    Expert June 2022 Ontario
    Steph ·
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    Planning it old school because for some reason I really enjoy doing it that way lol but actually creating the official one online
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  • Karley
    Curious September 2020 Nova Scotia
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    I love Excel so will be doing it in my wedding spreadsheet.

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  • Ashley
    VIP August 2020 Ontario
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    Im doing it online and will just print it out

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  • Stephanie
    Master July 2018 Alberta
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    Online. I used the seating chart on WW and it was great! Got it done in an evening!
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  • Vinod
    Top August 2017 Ontario
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    Online.

    The WW chart was easily accessible to use for putting guests at the tables of the shape chosen. meals along with it was easy to know who got served what for the kitchen to have a copy.

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  • S
    Expert September 2020 Quebec
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    Im using wedding wires app. Works well and user friendly. I started planning mine right away. As time goes on I will adjust. I am trying not to be that person who is late minute and flustered.

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  • K
    Curious July 2023 Ontario
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    We've been using wedding wire to take our rough written out list/chart and make it more visible with the charts and tables and it is extremely useful to have and be able to move people around and pick the type of table and #of people at each table etc.

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  • Tori
    Top October 2019 Manitoba
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    Online at first - we made a chart on WW... but then the day of we had quite a few people say they all of a sudden couldn't make it... so then it was just a free for all Smiley atonished

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  • Kimberly
    Frequent user July 2020 Ontario
    Kimberly ·
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    We are just assigning tables and then the 8 people who sit at that table can sit in any spot that they wish and beside who ever they wish.

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  • Rayanne
    Master June 2022 Ontario
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    I'm going to try the WW app once it gets closer. Still about a year out on that
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  • Allison
    Master October 2019 Ontario
    Allison ·
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    Again both! The wedding wire seating chart was being temperamental (wasn't letting me move guests around easily at first) when I was building my seating chart, so we wrote out a list of who to sit at each table and then put it into wedding wire once we finalized it.

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  • Casey
    Master October 2019 Ontario
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    I used WW's seating chart to organize everyone, I then printed it and brought it to my family to go over it. We used sticky notes to move people around and work with my initial layout

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  • Caitlyn
    Super January 2020 Ontario
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    I'm using the Wedding Wire seating chart to organize everyone and then once we have that finalized we'll order a printed poster to display at the venue.

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  • Geneviève
    VIP September 2020 Ontario
    Geneviève ·
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    Both! The wedding wire one though has been extremely useful
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  • Michelle
    Expert October 2021 Nova Scotia
    Michelle ·
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    We've been using weddingwire's!

    We've also got friends that got married at the same venue and they were kind enough to share their layout with us so we're grabbing some inspiration there

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  • A
    Super September 2020 Ontario
    Amelia ·
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    I've thrown together a rough version on WeddingWire already and it works great so I'll probably stick with that one!

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  • Chelsea
    Super June 2020 Alberta
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    WeddingWire’s seating chart tool is incredible, i’ve already got a rough draft of my seating chart
    done!!
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  • Kelsie
    Master July 2021 Ontario
    Kelsie ·
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    Our venue uses a planning tool through their portal - so that's how we'll do the final version.


    I'll probably use paper first though haha.

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