Place Cards

It's expensive and we'll probably not do a sit-down dinner, however if there's any way we could pull it off inexpensively I would like to try.  For sit-down dinners it seems like most people assign seating and it always ends up being slightly awkward. 

In networking 101 when introducing two people, it seems customary to say something along the lines of, "This is Mr. Smith, he is an excellent poet....and this is Mr. James, he is a large animal veterinarian."  You know, just to give people a jumping off point for conversation.  I think it might be fun to write in small print below the name on the place card of a sit-down dinner, a little fact about some other person who is sitting at the table as well...open up dialogue table wide.  Or do you think that's too cheesy?