Windowboxes and Weissbier

Today I decided that I might roughly sketch out the seating arrangements for the rehearsal dinner next Friday. Of course not everyone has RSVPed but I know basically who will be there and I don't want to do be doing this at the last minute. When I asked my future step mother in law (mouthful) she said she was pretty sure that they were going to be tables of 8. Instead of risking the fact that this easily might have been wrong I just e-mailed our contact at the restaurant. In short, my e-mail asked if we were having tables of 8. I waited hours and then I got the response that said.......

"I think tables of will work best for the event that you are having next weekend".

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG. Tables of WHAT?!?!? All I need is that one little number and somehow that was the computer key that was missed!!! Honestly, I am very calm and not really at all put out by this but I am starting to think that this might not be a coincidence that this sort of thing keeps happening!