Seating Chart!

I have to admit, working on the seating chart was a part of wedding planning that I was dreading.  I've heard comments from relatives (who shall remain nameless...) at previous family weddings regarding seating, and James and I had already received requests for some people to NOT be seated by others.  So many moving parts and you want to be considerate to everyone.  I just thought this was going to be a complicated, tedious, terrible task.  It wasn't!  James and I tackled it tonight and finished in 30 - 40 minutes, at most.  James was awesome and helped - he even came up with our system.  Our tables are going to be round, so we used coffee filters as tables and I printed our guest list and cut the names apart to arrange on the "tables".  We laid the filters out in the table arrangement and away we went.  We started up front with family and moved out and back from there.  We could easily move the names from table to table and see what we had and where we had room.  Our biggest speed bump was seating numbers.  We can have 8 - 10 people per table and while trying to keep people with other guests they know, we ended up with some tables of 10 (max) and others of 6 (below "min")  Trying to balance and keep things coordinated was a bit challenging at times, but in the end we figured it our pretty easily and finished without major incident.  :-)  Here are some pics of the process:

Of course, we aren't going to keep 19 coffee filters on our floor for the next week, so I wrote out each table name and guests at the table in my master notebook.  I also added a column to the RSVP spreadsheet so all of the reception information is together.  Now to make all of the place cards...