After spending 90% of my summer Saturdays shooting wedding for the past (eek!) eight years, I've decided I have a few things to share with soon-to-be-weds on how to plan the day. The first I must stress is Buffet all the way.
A seated dinner for 200+ guest is an amazing feat and I've seen it pulled off maybe once. What happens more often than not is:
People become glued to their chair for fear of getting passed over when the plates arrive.
The salad comes and then...
Your tiny aunt gets wasted way too early.
Uncomfortable silence/ peaked faces
Your uncle has to eat chicken when he swears he rsvp'd lobster
Cold plates
Frazzled Wait Staff
All this for $30 a head. A buffet is generally more economical, it encourages people to get up and mingle and is always faster. There's no real need to tell people where to sit. Let them sit where they like and catch up with people they haven't seen in awhile. I've even seen a wedding where there weren't enough chairs on purpose. That meant that not everybody could eat at once. They had to get up and talk or dance.
Although this is an amazingly important day for you resist the urge to make it too formal. Your guests will have a genuinely good time andyou'll find there's less for you to worry about!
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