Obsession of the WEEK = Seating Cards

As promised (who's pumped!) I wanted to finish my rant on the seating cards. So many cute ideas, only one wedding, boo. Plus, Style Me Pretty had to go out and post about this awesome wedding, I love the pattern they used on the seating cards and throughout the wedding.

AND I found these cards on Etsy by Decoylab and I just love the vintage designs, maybe I could somehow make these into seating cards.

OR I also like this idea from The Knot of combining the packaging of favors with the seating card.





Maybe we could use 3 designs and 3 colors, each design/color combo relates to their food choice. I don't know if the waiters would be able to figure that out or not.

Such a toss up! Go with a simple, modern design or something more fun. I suppose I have plenty of time to change my mind 10 or 20 different times.

Obsession of the Weekend = Seating Cards

I am so happy for the extra day off but it has caused my mind to do some fairly major obsessing. I want to start projects but it is so early in the game! Here are my fav inspiration pics I scrounged up.





We have opted to do only seating cards and not place cards, in other words once the guests get to their assigned table they can sit at whichever seat they would like. This means we must have 3 important pieces of information on the seating cards.

1. Guest's name
2. Table number they should sit their booties down at
3. What food group they are going to chow down on

1 and 2 are obviously the easy ones, 3 is what I am working on. I thought this idea from Miss (now Mrs) Lovebug on Weddingbee was cute. I have also seen people just simply put a small dot in the corner of the cards, red = beef, green = veg and so on. I know already I am too picky to put a dot on my cards that wasn't somehow part of the design.

More details on my obsession to come (I know it is thrilling) but I wanted to see how others were doing this. I suppose this really only pertains to those having a plated dinner but if you are I would love some ideas. You always have great ones!


All images from The Knot or Martha Stewart.