Wedding seating card etiquette can be used as a guide when planning your seating chart, but remember that you can ultimately arrange your guests however you'd like. For example, close family members and other honored guests usually sit near the bride and groom, but you may opt to mix up your family groupings a bit, especially if you have close family friends who’d love to be near each other.
To get you started, here are a few traditional place card etiquette tips, but remember, this day—and your seating chart—can be anything you’d like it to be:
Place cards for a wedding typically include the guest’s first and last name, but if you’ve got a fun nickname or another family moniker, go for it!
Tent-style cards should show the guests’ names on the front and back. If your card will lay flat, you can add the guest’s name on the front and a short message on the back.
Go as formal or informal as you like. Table cards can include titles with or without first names (like Ms. Ashley Jones or Ms. Jones), but leaving the first name out could cause confusion if you have multiple guests with the same last name. You can also opt to use just the guest’s first and last names without titles (such as: Ashley Jones).
For unmarried couples, it’s traditional to list the first and last names of both guests. For a single guest’s “plus one,” be sure to use their name instead of simply using a phrase like “and guest.”