Head table seating- handling significant others

I am team sweetheart table because I hate splitting up couples. We sat our wedding party at guest tables!

Most of my party is single but we are still doing a sweetheart table and seating our bridal party with the guests. That way those with significant others can still sit together.

Another one for team sweetheart table!!! I would hate to be separated from my spouse and wouldnt expect others to be!

If the significant others don't know people at the reception it may be awkward for them to not have their partners at the same table. Many people do a sweetheart table and seat the wedding party with their SOs at one or two other tables for this reason.

Definitely seat them together. Either do a kings table where you sit at one big table with all the BP and their SOs or you can do a sweetheart table where you and your FI sit at a small table together and the BP sits at other tables with their SOs (either together at a table or mixed in with the guests depending on how big the BP is).

I vote team sweetheart table, unless you're comfortable having the wedding party spouses/partners at the head tables. I wouldn't seat them separately.

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Yup, Then you and FH can actually talk to each other while people are eating as well. Just don't put the sweetheart table on risers-you aren't on display!

Thank you ladies so much! Sweetheart table seems like a good way to go. 😃❤️ I definitely would not want to split up couples, that would be super awkward 😅

We are doing a head table. My FH and I were separated at a wedding where I was in the wedding party. It wasn't a big deal to us. After dinner we were together the entire time. At max dinner is an hour or hour and half. Plus I am not going to pay extra for a sweet heart table, which is what would happen if we had one. The wedding where I was at the head table, the bride and groom just a had a table of SO seated together; they all knew who each other was too since they met the night before at the rehearsal. My FH was perfectly fine with this.

We intend on doing a head table that will include myself and my FH, my FH's two sons, my mom and stepdad, dad and stepmom, both of my FH's parents, my little sister who will be my maid of honor (and will likely not bring a date as she will just be a senior in high school), and my FH's brother who will be his best man (he is notoriously single, so likely won't have a date - however, we can make room for his date if he does end up bringing one). The rest of our wedding party and their significant others will be seated at tables nearby. We definitely don't want to split them up.

If you can seat them together, you for sure should. I've been in a wedding party and forced to sit at a head table without my SO. It's super awkward for the wedding party member & the SO. People want to sit with their SO. We did a sweetheart table.

At every wedding I've been to (and how it will be at my own wedding coming up in April) the bridal party has been with the bride and groom at the head table, and their SOs were with the other guests. Some were mixed in friends, some weddings they had a plus one table. Everyone was/will be fine, it's really only one dinner. My FH is going to be a best man in a wedding right after ours and I'll just be a guest, but it'll be fine, I can survive without him for a few hours haha

Just make sure you assign tables and don't do "open" seating. I went to one wedding where there was open seating and one of the groomsmen's wife didn't really know anyone. Poor thing was sitting by herself. We had met her once before and had her sit with us. Assigned seating takes care of that because each guest will know where to sit for the reception.

I ended up seating all mine with their significant others because it kind of felt weird to let their partners sit separately

100% you should sit your guests, whether in the bridal party or not, with their significant others.

Most of my FHs groomsmen are his friends and most of my bridesmaids are my family. So for those that are friends SOs they'll mostly be sitting with people they don't know lol. I'm not too worried about my bridesmaids SOs cause they know most of our family already. They'll survive but I know for sure my maid of honor's bf will be upset if he had to sit alone, which is understandable since I am a shy person as well. It's looking like Sweetheart table for the win.

Do a sweetheart table and let them sit together or have a king’s table where significant others are included.

I have the same situation. I decided to let my weddinh party sit with their spouses and s.o. close to the front of the ceremony space. I'm opting for a simple sweetheart table

My plan for Saturday was to add another table at the Head Table to include 5 additional adults. However, we apparently needed to add two instead of one. Two in my Brudal Party had to sit with the Guests. They didn’t mind though and one SO didn’t want to be up there anyway.

Head tables can be awkward if SOs aren't included at it. I'm team sweetheart table all the way!

We have a huge wedding party and most of the BM and GM's spouses are not in the wedding party. Me, my FH, Maid & Matron of Honor, and two best men are sitting at a head table. The 2 best men's wives are sitting with the rest of the bridal party. I think as long as you talk to your wedding party and make sure it's ok- I don't think it's a big deal to seat them separately, especially if they have friends/family at the wedding to sit with.