Social Butterfly

We have 400 guests for the wedding. I even cut this down because it's originally 500! Well, my mom is a social butterfly. Therefore, I am. Yep, yep. Too many connections and I want them to be there to join the festivities, too. Joey has less than 20 on his list. Buti na lang we have our highschool classmates so we have some 'common' guests hehhehe.

What does this mean? The seat plan nightmare plus wedding crashers.

But sorry I am strict on the guest list. And so does my coordinator. So, this is what we are doing to make sure everything is organized on the wedding day:

1. Seat Plan -- definitely!

2. I indicated in my invites how many seats had been alloted for every guest

3. My coordinator will computerize the registration and we will have 3 laptops that day (no problem coz Joey and I got 4 hehehhe). he guest will say their name and the at a click of a button their seat number will appear. then there will be ushers and usherettes to lead them. PLUS I told them to station people at the reception area to prevent exchanging of tables (ang pasaway ilalatigo ko)

4. RSVP by December 15 for final headcount

5. I controlled the other social butterfly (my Mom) to say this personally to all my relatives and her amigas when she distributes them the invites. They have to tell her if they will attend and if not, who will attend in their behalf. She will explain to them why we need those information - because there will be a registration where they will know table location.

6. If they are not in the list, we may have to ask them to wait for awhile until my team was able to seat everyone. Then we usher them where to stay.

Anyway, I think we can accomodate even uninvited guests. Normally there is 10% buffer from caterer so it shouldn't be a problem. I just want to make sure that the ones invited will get the priority seats.

I hope this works!