Oh no, who have they sat us with?!

Coming up with the table plan can be one of the hardest parts when planning your wedding, choosing where everyone sits while keeping them happy at the same time. As well as choosing where everyone sits you also have to choose how to display your seating plan, no doubt you’ve spent a long time styling the rest of your wedding décor, it’s worth having a think about how you want your table plan to look to keep in with the style of your day.

There is help out there

Top table planner is an online tool which helps you get your seating plan right. Adam from Top Table Planner shares his top 3 tips for arranging your seating plan.

1.  Start as early as you can. Arranging the seating is widely recognised as one of the most stressful parts of planning a wedding and it can take longer than you think.

2.  Tackle the top table first as this is often the trickiest. Certainly don’t feel you need to stick to the traditional layout – do what works best for you!

3.  Ask your venue if they can accommodate a few different sized tables. This can make arranging your seating plan a lot easier.

Once you’ve decided where everyone is sitting comes the fun part, you can choose how to display it.

Perhaps you have a theme?

For a rustic wedding hang your table cards from rustic flower pots filled with country flowers on wooden boards, a lovely look for a Summer wedding. This rustic table plan was styled by Passion for Flowers, photography by www.cottoncandyweddings.co.uk

For another rustic look chalkboard table plans are great, just get hold of a giant blackboard and write out your table plan, perfect for any last minute changes. Photography by Christian Ward Photography

For a vintage styled wedding displaying your table plan in a vintage suitcase can look wonderful, or have you thought of having a seating plan displayed like a washing line. Vintage suitcase by Dottie Creations, washing line from The Vintage Drawer

If you like to travel as a couple have you thought about naming your tables after countries you’ve visited, your table plan could be styled on a world map with luggage tags as the table cards. Maybe you met in London and have certain memories from different areas of the city, use a London Underground map as the base of your table plan and name tables after areas which mean something special to you. For example the area of your first flat, first date etc.

Try your hand at DIY

For a DIY look for your table plan use a cream wire frame with luggage tags as table plan cards. The luggage tags can be styled with vintage keys hanging from each card, symbolising the key that unlocks your future. All of these items are available from www.theweddingofmydreams.co.uk

Alternatively use lots of different photo frames and set them up on a table, place your table cards inside the photo frames and dot around a couple of single stem roses in bottles to finish off the look.

Numbers with a difference

Are you thinking of keeping it simple and numbering your tables, sometimes table numbers can be seen as a hierarchy. You don’t have to number from 1 to 10. Why not use numbers which mean something special to you both. For example, 2 – date you met, 6 – days until your honeymoon, 9 – years you’ve been together, 23 – date you were engaged

Luxe Bronze Tea Light Holders

View our bronze tea light holders in our shop

Product Details

• Add serious glamour to your wedding tables with our luxe bronze tea light holders.
• The bronze tea light holders will shine candle light across your tables and look fab mixed in with the larger version of these tea light holders.
• The tea light holders are bronze / copper in colour with a textured outer edge, inside they are silver to reflect the candle light.
• The luxe bronze tea light holders hold a standard tea light and measure 10cm in height.
• Colours and tones of bronze vary slightly on each tea light holder.
• Price: £12 for 3
• View in shop
• Also available in a large size which can hold candles or flowers. Large bronze votives.

Below are a handful of our favourite new items. Click on the name of the product to read more about it.

Wedding Table Decorations

Dainty Mercury Silver Vase Flared Rim £7
Dainty Mercury Silver Vase Classic  £7
Mercury Silver Bud Vase £20 for 6

Rustic Twig Vase / Lantern Medium £10
Rustic Twig Vase / Lantern Large £15

Luxe Bronze Vase / Votive £8.50

Candle Stick Holders & Tea Light Holders

Cream Candlesticks in small medium and large all £16

Glass Tea Light Holders with star design etched into them £9 for 3

Luxe Bronze Tea Light Holders £12 for 3

Wedding Signs

Blackboard Signs on a Stake £9.50

This Way To The I Do’s Sign £6.50

Wedding This Way Brown Sign £6.50

Mr And Mrs Black And White Signs £6 for both

Garlands And Wedding Bunting

A- Z Paper Garland – spell out your own words £7.50

Just Married Hessian Bunting £15

Wedding Place Settings

Paper Flags For Straws £4 for 30

Handmade Paper Place Cards £7 for 20

Handmade Paper Postcards £9 for 20

Rustic Heart Card Holder £4.50 each

White Wooden Frame Table Number Holder £16 each

Wedding Keepsakes

Lucy Sixpence £5
Lucky Sixpence for Her Shoe £5

To Have And To Hold Wedding Keepsake Box £22

Wooden Perpetual Calendar £15

Vintage Flip Calendar £95

Rustic Ladders Shelves For Wedding Styling £100

Wedding Favours

Wooden Hearts on Twine £10 for 10

Just Married Hessian Bunting

View Just Married Hessian Bunting in our shop

Product Description

• We love our hessian bunting.
• Hang this gorgeous bunting at the entrance to your wedding venue, whether it is a tepee, barn, marquee or country house it will look lovely.
• The bunting looks fab hanging from the front of a long top table or sweetie buffet table. Each flag is made from hessian / burlap fabric string from twine each has a white letter stamped on to it spelling out JUST MARRIED. The end two flags have a vintage lace bow tied to the corners.
• The bunting is around 2.5m in length with each flag measuring 20.5 cm wide by 24cm tall.
• View Just Married Hessian Bunting in our shop
• Price: £15

Buy white wedding parasols here

Follow our pinterest board for more wedding parasol decoration inspiration. See our pinterest board for credits.

White Wedding Parasols ~ Inspiration

Buy vintage apple crates / wooden crates here

Apple crates / vintage wooden crates make fab props for rustic or vintage weddings. Stack them up to create a table, place one upside down on a table to create height. Stack three on top on each other and fill the top crate with plants or flowers – they make lovely planters.

Crates are also ideal for home storage so they will have plenty of use after your wedding.

A few ideas for using wooden apple friut boxes / vintage crates:

Secret Garden Wedding Decorations & Inspiration

Source : 1 Love My Dress 2 Green Wedding Shoes 3 Wood Master Work 4 Passion for Flowers 5 Passion for Flowers 6 Want That Wedding 7 Before The Big Day 8 Green Wedding Shoes 9 Tahoe Unveiled 10 The Wedding of my Dreams  11 The Wedding of my Dreams 12 Put It Out There  13 Unknown 14 A Kentish Ceremony 15 Plectrum Banjo 16 Plum Tree Weddings 17 The Wedding of my Dreams

Mercury Small Silver Bud Vases

View mercury silver bud vases in our shop

Product Details

• The small silver bud vases are tear drop shaped and can hold a tiny flower.
• Add a few bud vases to each of your wedding tables amongst other larger vases, or bottles. They look great set on our mirror trays.
• We think a bud vase in each guests place setting would make a lovely wedding favour, attach their name with a small luggage tag to double up as their name card.
• The vases are made from mercury silver and measure 6cm x 5cm.
• Sold as a set of six.
• Price £20 for 6
• View in shop

Pop to the shop

See their full wedding featured on Love My Dress, photography by Daffodil Waves. They had a gorgeous spring  wedding with yellow daisies and just picked flowers.

Rustic Wedding Dessert Table

Love our Mr & Mrs Cake Topper Bunting on their yellow daisy wedding cake, can you spot the eat me cake topper above amongst the mountain of chocolate biscuits? The scrummy cake pops, sweets and biscuits were displayed in an eclectic mix of jugs, tea cups and bowls, we think it looks great with the blackboard mirror behind.

Mr & Mrs Mini Bunting Cake Topper

Chocolate eclairs look fab with our Alice in Wonderland Canapé Flags, this style of canapé flags has now been discontinued but we have a new style coming in very soon.