2. How many guests does each table seat comfortably? Following on from the point made above, this is a crucial question to know the answer to.
Too many wedding venues are happy to cram guests in leaving little room to move, let alone carve up a chicken breast. The critical word in all of this is comfortably, and the best way to judge this is in person.
Ask to see a room when it is set up and literally sit down and ask yourself ‘would I be happy with this much/little room?’
Wedding Venues will often give you an even number of guests that can be seated at a table, typically 8, but have a quick think about whether it is more of a 7/8 table or an 8/9 table for example – there is a good chance that there may be an odd number of guests on a table at your wedding so bear this in mind.
3. What is the recommended maximum number of tables for the room?
A particularly useful thing to know when combined with the answer to the previous question.
Some venues may quote a maximum capacity of 100, for example, but if each table will only comfortably seat 6 and the maximum number of tables is 10 then put simply, the numbers don’t add up. Make sure you ask these questions and do your homework, don’t just trust what you’re initially told!
Grouping Your Guests
Now that you are armed with the essentials, it’s time to get stuck into grouping guests together- but how should you go about it?
To help you out, we've outlned below four alternative strategies that you may wish to consider. It is highly unlikely that whichever option you go for that you will come up with a perfect solution and as such it is likely that you will need to deploy at least a couple of strategies in order to achieve the optimum result. That said, let's take a look at each one in turn, and then you can decide which one(s) will work best for you:
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