Creating a Seating Chart w/o a Bridal Party

I need some advice on how to go about seating my fiance and myself for the reception. Generally, the bride and groom sit at a head table with their bridal party and it's all good. But, we decided that we don't want a bridal party (for many reasons, namely that it will be less of a headache), and now I'm confused as to where we should sit. I was originally thinking that we could have our own little table to ourselves and just put it near a table of family members. Or, even just sit amongst our family members (there will only be about 8 or 9 of them - we both have hardly any family). I really like the idea of my fiance and I being set apart from friends and family so that we can have our own little space to decorate with Mr and Mrs stuff and all that cute-type of stuff, but I also don't want it to look awkward if it's just us at our own little table. It seems like it will be more difficult to have that "set apart" feeling if we sit with our family. I've been messing around with the seating chart tool to get different ideas, but it's difficult not being able to fully envision the space I will have to work with at our venue. I should note that the space for our reception is not exactly huge, but we are only expecting around 50ish guests to attend. Any advice? Would we look weird sitting by ourselves? It's just for dinner, we fully plan to mingle and party with our guests!