Evening guest space

Our venue is too small for us to have seats for day guests in the evening let alone extra ones for evening guests! They will move the tables after the meal to make space for the dance floor. I think, as long as you’ve got some seats to rest between dances/for the older generation, that will be fine - definitely don’t think you need a tables and chairs for everyone. Certainly I’ve been to other weddings where they’ve done that and it’s worked well.

View quoted message Thank you Jane, that's good to know. I wonder if there's some kind of maths to it? Do you know how many chairs and/or tables you'll have with how many guests?

View quoted message Erm, I really don’t know! We’re being guided by the venue/physical space available but I think we’ll go from 6 tables (with 10 on each) to 2 or 3 (but maybe with more seats). I might see about some chairs around the eye of the room too as people won’t need a ‘place’ like they will for the formal meal (well, I certainly hope they won’t!). We’ve also got some seats in the bar area and then some hay bales outside (weather permitting). If the weather is awful then our venue does have another room we can use but it’s a couple of minutes (outside) walk from the bar/dance space so I hope we won’t need it!


Sorry not to be more help - I almost don’t want there to be a formula that we ‘ought’ to follow as physical space is limited!! I guess one thing to think about is the age/mobility of your guests. My dad and my future grandparents in law will be the oldest there but I doubt they’ll be staying for the whole evening!

View quoted message Thank you Jane. I am thinking having a venue with planners would have been so much easier! Are you having evening guests or are they the same guests all day?

We have 50 in the day and 120 for eve, our planner has said eve tables will be about 50% of day tables as people will be at the bar, dance floor etc so I should think you will be fine.

We are having 4 tables out in the evening which will seat 40 but will have 109 guests

Thank you all. Good to hear what others are doing. We messaged the marquee company to ask for some advice too 🙂 x

View quoted message Thanks Marcie. I have a feeling you had your wedding this weekend? Hope you had the most wonderful day.