How to make and arrange cards for seating guests at the wedding with their own hands?

A wedding is an important event in the lives of two people who decide to unite their lives. Someone prefers to spend it as solitary as possible, while someone arranges a celebration with many guests. When inviting friends and relatives to a restaurant on the occasion of this event, it is worthwhile to make sure that each of them gets a place at the table. And this will help you plan and cards for seating guests.

It often happens that the relatives of the newlyweds do not get along very well, but you cannot invite some and disregard others. To avoid quarrels at the holiday, you can arrange the seating of the guests in a special way - to plant next to each other only those who will definitely get along. After all, communication between the guests is also important at the feast, especially when they are sitting at the same table.

If you do this directly at the holiday, clutter will be created. And if there are a lot of guests, it can take a lot of time. It is much better to plan before the wedding who will sit and where, make name cards and hand them over to the waiters so that they can be laid out. Or spread out on your own before the wedding.

Thus, you will save time for seating guests, as well as complement the design of the wedding table with an additional element. In addition, seedling cards can be part of small gifts that traditionally newlyweds give their guests as a keepsake.

There are a number of rules that can greatly simplify the task of planning a landing. They are optional, but take into account the psychology of people and help ensure a comfortable stay for guests.

1. Close relatives sit closer to the bride and groom.
2. Single guests are planted closer to people of the same age. The same is best done with relatives - if there are different tables, it is best for the elderly to be planted with the elderly, children with children, etc.
3. For children, it is worthwhile to organize a separate table. Or put next to parents if there are not many.
4. It is better to land a single guest with the same loners, and married couples next to other couples.
5. Men and women need to be alternated if there is no good reason to violate this order. Traditionally, a woman sits on the right hand of a man.
6. Colleagues or close friends will be more comfortable feeling nearby.
7. It is better to plant foreigners with those who can communicate with them.
8. If you are well acquainted with the interests of the guests, then this is also worth considering.

If the layout of the hall involves several tables, then the newlyweds, as a rule, are assigned a separate table in the most prominent place. In this case, it is also useful to make a beautifully designed stand, where it will be listed who should sit at what table. Then the guests will not have to wander from table to table, looking for their name.

Guest cards can be made from a wide variety of materials and in a wide variety of styles. It all depends on your imagination and the overall style of the wedding, because each of its elements should be harmoniously combined with others.

There are several most popular options:

• a rectangular "house" made of cardboard or paper, which is placed on the guest’s personal plate;
• stand plate;
• figurine with a name;
• tape on napkins with a name;
• gingerbread with icing.

If this is cardboard, then it can be either traditionally rectangular in shape, or any other. For example, such cards can be made in the form of a “heart”, “star” or some other figure that will be symbolically connected with the bride and groom. You can also take different forms for men and women - so it will be clear from afar who is sitting where and speed up the seating process.

Once you have decided on the design of the seating cards, it's time to start making them. The easiest option is to order card printing at a print shop. There they will do it quickly, with any fonts, drawings and even embossing on cardboard. However, you can make and sign cards yourself.

It’s easiest to make them out of cardboard or paper. You can print labels on the printer yourself, having prepared the layout in a graphical or text editor. Even the most basic computer programs make it possible not just to write text, but to frame it and choose a beautiful font for every taste.

You can stick figures made of polymer clay - this will be a small gift for guests that will delight them for many years. Or you can make figures from edible materials - then they will become a pleasant dessert. It can be, for example, edible mastic. Its most delicious options are from gelatin or marshmallows.

Gingerbread cookies are another edible type of seedling cards that already looks a little like cards as such. We all know the Tula gingerbread, covered with glaze, and their varieties. Recently, their various analogues in the form of souvenirs are becoming more and more popular.

Such gingerbread cookies are easy to make yourself using the oven. And the names of the guests can be written with icing by hand and at the same time draw some symbolic drawing next to it. For example, hearts or wedding rings. And the gingerbreads themselves can be made in the shape of a heart. You can still pack these gingerbread cookies in transparent packaging - then the names will be visible, and guests will be able to take the gingerbread away after the holiday home.

It is better to think about where and how seedlings cards will be located on tables before they are made. For example, if these are ordinary cardboards, it makes sense to choose an additional accessory to them so that they do not look corny and do not resemble cheap restaurant reservations.

The most basic option is to buy special paper supports. They are sold in every stationery store in a wide variety of shapes, colors and sizes. These coasters look in the form of narrow single clips on a long stick or very elastic springs. Thanks to the clip, a sheet of paper attached on top will not fall onto the table.

You can also use origami techniques and fold voluminous cubes, baskets or something else out of paper that you can attach cards to. Or paper figures with names can be placed both on plates and hung on champagne glasses.

Another interesting idea as a holder for seedlings is pebbles. You can take ordinary pebbles, run in by the sea and paint with acrylics. Then wrap the pebbles with a beautiful rope or ribbon and place a sheet with the name of the guest under the winding.

You can also use something edible as a stand. For example, put canapes on plates. On sticks from them attach a ribbon or card with a name. So guests can not only find their place, but also try something tasty even before they bring the main dishes.

Or it may not be a canapé, but a small cake with a stick inserted in the middle. The same can be done with some whole fruit. It can be, for example, tangerines, apples, kiwi or peaches.

Beautiful, cozy and very suitable for a summer wedding will be small flowers. To do this, it is not at all necessary to take risks with cut fresh flowers, which can quickly fade. And artificial flowers at a wedding are a bad manners. Therefore, you need to pick up very fashionable small succulents in pots for this.

These desert plants are very unpretentious, a little like cacti and look very cute. Among the many species, you can find those that are most suitable in color and shape to the surroundings of the wedding. And guests are unlikely to miss such an original accessory. They will take a piece of the wedding to their home, and there she will remain in a prominent place for a long time.

A master class on how to make seating cards, see the next video.