Your wedding table plan is the key to ensuring that your wedding reception runs smoothly. Without a carefully planned reception, you could be risking making your wedding day very stressful.

Imagine walking into your reception celebrations only to find your great aunt sitting next to the brother in law that she can’t stand. This is exactly the situation you want to avoid and that is why a wedding table plan is essential.

Creating a wedding table plan can be time consuming and sometimes a little stressful, but it’s all worth it when you see your wedding reception going like a dream.

The idea of completing a wedding table plan is to ensure that people will be sitting with people that they get on with but also to mix the two families a little bit so that they have chance to get to know one another.

Begin your wedding table plan by creating a drawing of how your reception will look. Ensure you have the right number of tables and chairs for the guests.

Then, using your wedding RSVP cards that you should have received in the post, you should write each guest’s name on a loose piece of paper. Move these pieces of paper around the plan until you are happy with where everyone is sitting.

And then you have a wedding table plan which will ensure that your reception runs as smoothly as possible. And your great aunt will not be sitting next to your brother in law.

You may think that inviting people to your wedding is as simple as sending out a quick email or perhaps even making a few phone calls.

But there is more to inviting your wedding guests than this. In fact it takes an awful lot of organisation and planning in order to send the right invites to the right people.

This is made more complicated by the fact that most wedding ceremonies will not be able to cater to all of your friends and family for the whole day. A lot of wedding venues are restricted in the number of people that they can hold and this means that you have to be very organised when planning your wedding invitations.

It may be that you have to split your guests into categories and decide upon who is coming to the wedding ceremony and who is just coming to the evening celebrations.

That way, you can send the appropriate invitations to each person. Some may only receive wedding evening invitations and these will normally be people that you want to see on your wedding day, but who you are not very close to.

Of course, close friends and family members will be invited to the whole day.

By splitting your wedding guests into different categories, you can ensure that your wedding day is organised and therefore runs smoothly.

People are sending emails about everything these days, and finding out life-changing information on places like Facebook and Twitter just doesn’t quite seem right to me. If something big is happening in your life, don’t just change your status online, send a personalised card to your friends and family.

Given that most of our post seems to be junk mail, everybody enjoys getting a handwritten envelope. It’s nice to think that someone put in the time and effort for you, and it’ll always bring a warm smile.

This is particularly good if you are having a child, as you can get personalised cards with your baby’s photo on, or one with a pre-made design. You can have them in a similar design to your wedding stationery, and you could even send matching Christening invitations!

There is a style to suit you no matter what your tastes: teddy bears, pale blue or pink trainers, little painted hand prints, everything that shouts ‘baby’!

As you can have these cards completely personalised, all you’ll have to do when they arrive is write the addresses for the recipients on them, and stick them in the post. Easy Peasy.

So, when you hear that patter of tiny feet and want to let the whole world know, do it through beautiful, personalised cards.