Assigned Tables for Buffet Style Reception

I think assigned tables would be the way especially with the number of guets you have. IMO specfic tables would be better tha specfic seats. Good luck

I always recommend that you assign tables. Otherwise, you've got couples who can't find seats together. There's one seat open at table 9 and one seat open at table 3, or people start moving chairs around to be with friends and all of a sudden you've got one table with 14 squished people and one table with 3 lonely people. Do the table seating! It makes for a much more comfortable environment. After dinner, people can move around and sit with whoever they want. Some people leave relatively early and it opens up the tables anyway. It's got nothing to do with whether it's a buffet or a plated meal. Seat family up front together so they can talk and be near the bride and groom. Don't try to force the families to get to know each other at your wedding. Except for my mother in law and one aunt, my husband's family and mine never socialize, even after 25 years!

We are also having a buffet style dinner at the reception and we are DEFINATELY doing assigned seating/tables.

mostly because of the same reason, i dont want that happening where people act like middle schoolers at lunch and need to save the best seats, yeah NO. plus most of our guests dont know each other so we put them with who they know for dinner, they are welcome to move around and what not after dinner is done.

With ours, the two tables closest to us is family. Then tables with life long friends who are like family. Then the work people.

We did seating arrangments. We also mixed our tables up with his family and my family and then my friends with his friends. We made sure that every person had someone they were comfortable talking to and then someone they didn't know. I just couldn't have a wedding where one table was all dark skinned and the next table all light skinned. It would look wayy too weird. We wanted everyone to mingle. Table seating didn't matter after dinner because everyone got up to dance and such.

Im doing assigned tables with a buffet style reception

We are not doing assigned seating. I hated. Especially at my family memeber wedding. Just felt board. I am one of those type that want you to have fun and I do not want to tell you were you need to sit at. My family goes through different things and my like you one day and not the other. So I would rather for everyone to get to know the other family. Plus most of the time everyone will be dancing. I am planning to have a list at the door. I am just having two family tables at the front. Good luck too you. It would drive me nuts to figure who to put next to whom.

I read the comments after I comment I do this sometimes to make sure my thought is mine and not impacted from others---anyway we are having a buffet style as well and we will be assigning tables to our guest. I think about how you said that the wedding you went to was just all messed up when it came to seating soo I don't want that to happen. I definitally don't want friends and family that may have in the past or just knowing them, that they may "bump heads" I don't want them ending up at the same table. So this is the best option I would say.

it is completely up to you but I don't see any problem with it just being a buffet.

We are assigning seating with buffet. To me it just seems easier than having to find a seat. Also I don't want to put the older folks with the rowdy younger bunch.

I would assign people to a table but don't worry about setting up specific seats it would be a waste of your time.

My cousin wedding she had assigned tables and unfortunately I was not good enough to have a table around other family members she assigned me table 21 very last table. My table mates were a guy I use to date with his wife and kids. Add insult to injury a gal I use to work with from a company I got fired from. The first table was served at 7 and half of the tables were served at 8 and it would of been 9 we were starved and they only had one serving table. I was very offended I felt like I was out castes from the party. If you do assigned tables you will offend some people because they will feel they were rated how important they are to the bride and groom. This was a buffet style. Good luck if you plan on assigned table.