Plan the seating

Sep 02, 2009

One of the few things that couples forget to work on is the table planning, it usually comes as an after thought or on the eve of the wedding. I wanted to start early, 40 days to be exact.

In one of the wedding where I was the unofficial and unpaid planner, my fiends did not provide any table information until after the ceremony, and it caused us quite a panic as each table was 2 chairs short, and the tables were not able to accommodate the planned number. Lots of rework and rearranging the guests at the last minute. We also added 2 extra tables, which added another $1500 to the tab.
It was quite chaotic. Then and there I promised to do better, for my wedding at least.

So I downloaded Table Planner software, placed all the tables ... sweetheart, cake, bridal party, guests, kids, escort cake table ... after feeling pretty satisfied with my planning, I wanted to export to PDF or print, and the trial version of this software does not allow me to do either. Darn!!! It just wasted 2 hours of my time.

And now I need to find another software and try to recall my table placement. I am frustrated, but at least I have a mental picture of where things are supposed to be, hopefully.

Morale of the story ... avoid trial version when possible, they expired on you and you cannot retrieve your work. Use freeware or pen-and-paper for table planning.