W-day -25

[ailbhe]

Seating plan.

What do I do about babies? Do I provide a seat for their carry-cot and no place setting? How do I know whether the baby is old enough for a high chair?

What do I do about shy people who only know me and no-one else at the whole wedding?

How rude is it to put a baby's high-chair next to its parent and a stranger, if the stranger has a take-it-or-leave-it attitude to babies?

General.

What if some of the kids are ill-disciplined or annoying? Can I drown them? We've sort of had to invite some children whom we actually don't know, so that their parents are able to attend - not having the parents there would leave us married in the legal sense, but would be quite unsatisfying.

Why don't we know more men? Well over half the guests will be female.

If I am providing one room with no music, but smoking allowed, and one room with music and no smoking allowed, and a small room with neither allowed and an armchair for nursing mothers, have I left any rooms out? I can get one more very small room, but I honestly can't think of any use for it that wouldn't be more fun back at the hotel. (Yes, there are bathrooms!)

Whose responsibility is it to ensure that a guest can leave and come back at intervals as she may be somewhat poorly (8 months pregnant and the first one had Complications)? Do I have to get her a taxi? Pay for it? Arrange to have someone friendly drive her to and fro? Neither one of us drives.

I am not panicking. I am not panicking. I am procrastinating study.

Comments

[theroach.livejournal.com]

I don't know the traditions wherte you are, but over here it is customary for guests to add something to the feast, as in: the neighbours bringing a guitar and singing a more or less bawdy song, friends dressing up as a high court of justice holding a mock trial for some former 'crime'... Depending on what they plan, they might appreciate a small special room to store musical instrumetns / props / to dress up... whatever.

Example:
Two of my local friends who married recently are members of a gaming club. About a year and a half before they married, during a public demonstration game of Wooden Ships and Iron Men (Scenario: Trafalgar), their ships (one English, ond Spanish) crahed into each other and the rigging got entangle for most of the game. So, some people from the club dis a mock trial of him, posing as English High Court, accusing him of High Treason and consorting with the enemy...