Most wedding receptions include a buffet-style meal where everyone stands in an enormous line inactivity while those at the food plateau decide if they want Italian or Ranch dressing on their salad.
There has to be a more unusual way to get people to their food, and a faster one at that, right? There are several fun options you can employ to feed your guests quickly and with a minimum of groans of hunger.
One of a most renouned is a series system. Any list is reserved a series as well as a MC or DJ calls numbers during assorted intervals. A people during which numbered list afterwards find a smorgasbord as well as precede their feast. We can place a numbers in an accumulation of locations. For a most practical version, only place a series in a flowering plant agreement upon a table.
Some brides don’t similar to this demeanour of numbered list as if during a convention. In which case, we can put a numbers underneath flowering plant arrangements, or underneath chairs. If we have place cards during a tables, we can write a tiny series somewhere upon a label so people know which list they’re sitting at. For a fun variation, we can have a florist fool around with a list floral arrangements. If a arrangements have been starting to have a dozen flowers, we could have a florist supplement a single additional flowering plant to list “one”, dual additional flowering plants for list “two” as well as so upon as well as have a guest figure out which series list they have been formed upon how most additional flowering plants they have in their arrangement.
Now, if the number system doesn’t thrill you or make you think “unique”, there are other options. Each table can have a color and the DJ simply calls out the color name. Depending, again, on how many tables you have at your reception, you could coordinate the tablecloths with the color of the table. So you might have white, pink, lavender, beige, and yellow tablecloths, and the guests sitting at that table simply move to the buffet table when the color of their tablecloth is called.
Another favourite option for moving people easily to the buffet plateau involves having a little fun with your guests. You wage apiece plateau with a buzzer, either a bell like you might find at a store, or a small silver bell. Just something they can buzz or ring. The DJ or MC asks a trivia question, or a question about the bride and groom. The tables buzz in with their answers. The guests at the plateau with the first correct buzzed answer move to the buffet table. You repeat the process until everyone is finally on their way to getting some grub.
The trivia method is an especially fun way to help guests to get to know one another, as they might have to work together to come up with an answer. If your guests are hungry, you’re sure to hear muffled groans and sighs of exasperation. But even with the small complaints, this is always a crowd pleaser because it’s fun and gets everyone involved.
Now, this next option is fun but can engender a bit of jealousy sometimes. When people get their place card, whether it’s placed on the table, or they pick it up when they look at the seating chart, you can put a number on it. But not everyone at the same table will have the same number. If you have 100 guests, for example, you might choose to have 10 people at the buffet table at a time. So each person would be assigned a number 1 through 10.
In the same scenario as above, the DJ or MC will call a number and those numbers will head for the buffet table. There are sure to be more than one mortal from apiece plateau heading for the buffet table, but the guests at apiece plateau won’t get their food at the same time.
This staggered feeding can be fun or a nuisance, depending. It solves the problem of half the room being finished with their meal while waiting for the “later” table to finish theirs before the festivities start, but it can also mean that one or two guests might be long done with their food (or wanting to head back for seconds) when others at the table haven’t even eaten yet.
