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Originally posted by kansas13
I have never heard of reception halls specifically asking what meals all the guests specifially wanting. How was this reception hall taking the count for the meals?
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Well I guess I forgot to mention this part. The reception hall had this thing they did as part of the wedding package. They had enough servers for each table so that each would stand behind a person with their meal covered with a silver cover (or whatever those are called) and in unison they would set the plate in front of you and lift off the cover. The bridal party got served first and it made quite the impression when they did it. For the rest of the tables they did a few at time but in different corners so they had to know in advance who was eating what, otherwise it took away from the grand entrance of your food. What they had asked the mother of the bride to do is to somehow mark on the inside of the place cards which meal each person had requested in addition to a copy of the seating chart. What the mother of the bride ended up doing was having different stickers (or drawings cant remember) for what the person had requested for a meal so it didnt look tacky and the guests thought the decoration on their place card was part of the whole thing. The reception hall planned their route accordingly based on all this. Thinking back it was a really cool feature of it and no one expected it at all but apparently it was one of the reasons they choice that location.
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Originally posted by aephi alum
Presumably, every couple or family who is invited will be seated together at the same table. So, say you have a table for six. John wants steak, but his wife Mary and daughter Susie want vegetarian. Also at the table are Jim and Diane, who both want steak, and their son Alex, who wants chicken.
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Yeah that was the other problem, mother of the bride decided that it would be more fun for the kids if they had their own table and by watching them throughout the night they definitely did. It gave the kids from both sides of the family a chance to get better acquainted with them but for the planning cause extra problems since they had to figure what the kids wanted to eat.
I guess it sounds like there were added factors to this wedding that most dont have...hadnt thought of that.