Name Places...Full name or first name only???

I'm just putting first names but if there are duplicate names I might just put the initial of their surname. If they have the same initial then i'd write it in full!! ?

The way that we are doing it is putting the persons full name on the table plan so that they no what table they are looking forward,

and then the name card putting just their first name - so fingers crossed there will only be one Emma for example on table 6 so they will know that it is them if you get what I mean.

(I am going to have to check my table plan now to make sure nobody does have the same name on the same table otherwise my theory will not work)

I did full names on the placename cards and on the top table i just did bride, groom...and so forth.

I'd say it depends on how you normally refer to people, or how they would expect it to be written. I think I'm going to put full names on for some (aunts & uncles) and just first names for others (friends, work colleagues).

I do have a couple of duplicate names, so I may have to distinguish between them, although it should be obvious, and I do have some friend whose surnames I don't know. I also have a friend whose first name nobody else knows (although I do) - she's only ever known by her nickname.

How strange this was one of my random thoughts last night. I was wondering what to put on the table plan

I think it all depends on how well you know your wedding guests and the size of the group. We only had 24 guests to our ceremony and meal, they were all very close family and friends so we could be very informal and had their first names on the place cards. For those people that have high numbers attending including aunts, uncles, cousins etc that they may not have seen in a while then perhaps full names would be better.

We're havign a choice menu, and therefore have to give our venue all names (in full) on a table plan 30 days in advance. I'm therefore going to do full names on my placecards, more to help the waiting staff out! Alternatively, I might put full names on the menu labels that will be stuck on the back so they don't try to half-inch a halloumi when they ordered the mozzarella ? and peeps can turn their labels round to be helpful?!

I think it depends how formal you want to make it. It just seemed 'proper' to me to do full names so that's what we had and on the wedding party place cards we had Bride, Groom etc just printed underneath. This was the Mother of the Bride card, not a great pic but you can see it written underneath.

On all of our favour box place settings I used names like Mother/Father of Bride/Groom. But when it came to doing our table plan, I used everyones full name xx

WSS! This is exactly as we have done, but have put peoples shortened/nicknames on their place cards so basically whatever we know them as. So we have put 'Jo Hollywood' on our seating plan but JoJo on the place card.

It might just be me, but I hate seeing name cards with the first initial of the surname e.g. 'John S'. I'd much rather see 'John' or 'John Smith'.