Do you sit them with their spouse/family or do you just sit them with the other members of the wedding party? I don’t want anyone to be unhappy with their seating arrangements. Nobody told me seating arrangements could be so stressful!
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February 11th, 2010 @12:21 pm
you seat them with their spouse/date. Have a sweetheart table so the whole room can see you guys and then have the bridal party sit together with their dates or mixed throughout the room with people they know. I had a sweetheart table and my bridal party sat with people they were comfortable with and their spouses/dates.
February 11th, 2010 @3:15 pm
They are your close friends, ask them what they would prefer. I’ve been to weddings where they would sit with there spouse, and I’ve been to ones where they didn’t. For our wedding, we are going to give the option to the married bridal party.
Another thought to the bride/groom table, is do a stadium style seating, incase an odd number of people have spouses. You can have a table higher up with bride/groom, maid of honor/bestman, and infront and lower, have the rest of the remaining bridal party.
February 13th, 2010 @3:43 pm
Hi
Figuring out seating assignments is a project all unto itself. Wedding details can be kept neatly in binders for months, but try and organize friends and family into groups of 8 to 10 and, well, it’s enough to frazzle even the most organized of brides. Not to mention the forgotten guests, the girlfriend who “falls in love” just before your wedding, or the cousin who can’t make it at the last minute. Life happens and it doesn’t care that you already sent your seating chart to the calligrapher.
While everyone has their own method for tackling the project — spread sheets, handwritten diagrams — I have my own “secret” system that I thought I’d share. (It’s a system I thought I made up until I saw Mindy Weiss use it on some show on MTV and then found out that they use it for events like the Tony Awards and the Golden Globes.) The “secret”: Post-Its.
Take a large sheet or two of paper and draw circles or squares to represent your tables. If you can get one, an enlarged drawing of your room floor plan will work nicely too. Grab a stack of Post-It Flags (they’re about 1 x 3 inches) and write the name of each of your guests. Start placing them around your “tables.” It takes some prep work, but makes it easy to see when a table is to “full”, simple to move people around and helps to visualize which tables “work” and which don’t
Hoping it helps:)
GOOD LUCK
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