Looking for another way to make your reception a little more fun, personal, and unique? How about getting a little creative with your assigned seating! Many people overlook the way they designate seats for guests, as it is often so much work just to assign the seats in the first place, but with just a little more you can make it so fun and cute that your guests will always remember your reception because however you decide to design your assigned seating, it will always feel personal and creative!

In their West Garden Room reception this past weekend, Amber and Kyle put a single, different flower on every table and then gave each guest their name cards attached to a vase with a flower in it. The guests then matched the flower in their vase with the flowers on the tables. This not only doubled as a wedding favor for guests, but it also decorated the room and gave each table a unique arrangement!

Ditching the traditional seating cards and table, this couple made their own fountain in our West Courtyard and filled the bottom with polished rocks, each with the name and table assignment of each guest.

This couple chose to name each table in their Queen’s Tavern reception by a common northern Michigan tree, including a picture and a description of each tree on the tables, and assigned guests’ seating cards by the different trees.

Another great, personal idea for assigned seating is to mark tables with your own pictures, either from trips, parties, or just a variety of pictures of you and your groom, then assigning seating cards by the different pictures. We’ve seen this many times at the Castle, but it is still always unique and fun!

For their winter wedding in the Knight’s Castle, this couple took pictures of them holding giant numbers and used those as table numbers.

In their Queen’s Tent reception, this couple named each table by a location they had been to together, then had fake plane tickets printed for each guest with the destination being their table’s location.

We have had so many original ideas from our Brides so far in 2009 that we are so excited every weekend to see what else they can come up with! Here are some examples from this year!!!

Andrea & Derek were married May 16^th 2009 in the Knights Courtyard with their reception immediately following in the Kings Great Hall. Andrea thought of every detail when planning this wedding! From her damask overlays to their personalized beverage koozies, she really added a special touch to every aspect of their wedding day!  Derek has a collection of signed guitars, and the couple thought it would be great to add a signed guitar from their wedding to his collection in lieu of a guest book.

Maggie & Jeremy had their ceremony in the West Courtyard with a reception to follow in the West Garden Room on May 22^nd 2009. They decided to accent their reception with cornflower blue and a hint of lime. Their centerpieces consisted of a fun mix of blue and white hydrangeas, daisies, spider mums and limes!!  

Christine & Brandon were married on May 24^th 2009 in the Knights Castle! Christine chose a rich combination of teal and eggplant to enhance the Knights Castles unique appearance.  The couple loves to snowboard and discovered a company that could make a custom cake topper resembling them with their snowboards. How cute is that!?