How to make and arrange cards for seating guests at the wedding do it yourself?

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

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

If you do this directly on the holiday, create turmoil. And if there are a lot of guests, it can take a lot of time. It is much better before the wedding to plan who and where will sit, make cards with the names and give them to the waiters, so they laid them out. Or decompose on their own before the wedding.

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

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

1. Close relatives sit closer to the bride and groom.
2. Single guests are put closer to people of the same age. The same is best done with relatives - in the presence of different tables, the elderly are best planted with the elderly, children with children, etc.
3. For children, you should definitely organize a separate table. Or to plant next to their parents, if they are few.
4. A single guest is better to plant with the same singles, and married couples next to other couples.
5. Men and women need to alternate, if there is no good reason to disrupt this order. Traditionally, a woman sits on the right hand of a man.
6. Colleagues or close friends will feel more comfortable nearby.
7. It is better to foreigners to plant with those who can communicate with them.
8. If you are familiar 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 given a separate table in the most prominent place. In this case, it is also useful to make a beautifully designed stand, which will list who should sit at what table. Then guests will not have to wander from table to table, looking for their name.

Cards with the names of guests can be made from a variety of materials and in a 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 some of the most popular options:

• a rectangular "house" of cardboard or paper, which is placed on the guest's personal plate;
• plate on the stand;
• figure with name;
• ribbon on napkins with the name;
• gingerbread with icing.

If it is cardboard, then it can be 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 associated with the bride and groom. You can also take different forms for men and for women - it will be clear from afar who sits where and will speed up the process of seating.

Once you have decided on the design of the rassletnyh cards, it's time to start making them. The easiest option is to order printing of cards in a printing house. They will do it there quickly, with any fonts, drawings, and even embossed on cardboard. However, you can make and sign the cards yourself.

From cardboard or paper to make them the easiest. You can print your own labels on the printer by preparing a layout in a graphic or text editor. Even the most basic computer programs allow you not only to write text, but to frame it and choose a beautiful font for every taste.

You can stick polymer clay figurines - this will be a small gift for guests who will delight them for many years. Or you can make figurines from edible materials - then they will become a pleasant dessert. This may be, for example, edible mastic. Its most delicious options - from gelatin or marshmallow.

Another edible type of seed cards, which already has little resemblance to the cards as such, is gingerbread. We all know the glazed Tula gingerbread and their varieties. Recently, their various analogues in the form of souvenirs have become increasingly popular.

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

It is better to think about where and how the seed cards will be placed on the tables before they are made. For example, if these are ordinary cartons, it makes sense to pick up an additional accessory for them so that they do not look trite and do not resemble cheap restaurant reservation.

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

You can also use the origami techniques and put together voluminous cubes, baskets or something else, to which you can attach the cards. Or paper figurines with names can be placed on plates as well as hung on champagne glasses.

Another interesting idea as a seedling card holder is pebbles. You can take the usual pebbles, run-in the sea and paint with acrylic paints. Then wind the pebbles with a beautiful string or ribbon and place a sheet with the guest's name under the winding.

You can use something edible as a stand. For example, spread out on plates canapes. Attach a ribbon or name card on the sticks. So guests can not only find their place, but also try something tasty before they bring the main dishes.

Or it may not be a canape, but a small cake with a stick inserted in the middle. The same can be done with some whole fruits. These 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 necessary to take risks with cut fresh flowers that can quickly curl. And artificial flowers at a wedding are moveton. Therefore, you need to pick up a very trendy little succulents in pots.

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 form to the entourage of the wedding. And guests are unlikely to fail to note 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.

See the next video for a master class on how to make seed cards.