Sweetheart table seating chart
A small table for the couple alone. It gives you a moment to breathe, a clean photo, and lets the wedding party sit with their own guests.
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just the two of you
A sweetheart table changes the rest of your chart more than it changes that one table. With the couple seated alone, the wedding party now sits among the guests, and parents usually take family tables near the front. That is where most of the seating work moves.
How Seatwright seats a sweetheart table
Seat everyone else from your list and let the couple's table be its own label, like Sweetheart, if you want a card or a reserved sign for it. Seatwright lays out the place cards, escort cards, table numbers, and chart for the whole room from the same paste, so the two-seat table is the easy part.
Seatwright prints the cards, the table numbers, and the chart from your list. It does not draw a floor plan, so you decide the room layout and Seatwright handles the paper.
A sweetheart table means the wedding party needs seats elsewhere. Seat each of them with friends or a date so no one is stranded at a table of strangers.
What you can print
Escort cards
Escort cards tell each guest which table to find. Seatwright sorts your whole list A to Z and lays it out as tent cards, so the entrance table stays easy to scan.
Place cards
Place cards sit at the seat itself. Seatwright groups your guests by table and prints one card each, with the meal choice underneath the name if you added one.
Table numbers
A table needs a number a guest can read from the door. Seatwright prints one foldable tent sign per table, large and centered, straight from the tables on your list.
Seating chart
One poster by the door lets everyone find their seat at a glance. Seatwright lays out your whole list alphabetically with each guest's table beside the name.
Plan the seating
Sweetheart table vs head table
Where the two of you sit sets the tone for the whole room. The choice comes down to a sweetheart table for just the couple or a head table with the wedding party, and each one changes the rest of your seating.
Wedding seating chart etiquette
There is no seating police, but a few common conventions make the room flow. Treat these as starting points, not rules you have to follow.
Assigned seats or open seating
Do you have to tell every guest where to sit? No. But the right choice depends on your meal, your headcount, and how well your guests know each other.
Questions
What is a sweetheart table?
A small table set for just the couple, apart from the wedding party. It gives you a quiet moment together, a clean photo, and frees the wedding party to sit with their own guests.
Where does the wedding party sit with a sweetheart table?
Among the guests, usually with their partners or close friends. Parents typically take family tables near the couple. Seatwright seats all of them from your list along with everyone else.
Do I still need place cards with a sweetheart table?
For the rest of the room, yes. The couple's table needs little more than a small sign, but the guest tables still want place cards or escort cards. Seatwright prints both from one list.
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Other table shapes
Paste your list, see it laid out
Whatever shape your tables are, your guest list becomes the whole day-of paper set in one pass.
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