Head Table

Could just do you, the groom, and maid or matron of honor and best man at the head table. Sweetheart table works too.

I think not sitting the bridal party with their SOs sucks. So either just have your parents/grandparents with you and let the bridal party sit at regular tables, or include SOs.

That is the main reason I dont like head tables. I think it is inconsiderate to split couples.

Head tables were the only way to go until about 10-15 years ago when sweetheart tables became a thing. You could have a larger kings table, which seats your VIPs along with their SOs. Your parents and grandparents can sit at round tables next to your table, so it would just be the bride and groom, bridal party, and SOs.

We are doing a long table with the bridal party as well but we are also seating all SOs at the table with us. I think it's rude to split couples at dinner

This would be awkward for the SOs/plus ones. It has happened to me before when FH was in a friend's wedding and I wasn't very happy about it. He ended up leaving the head table to come sit with me even though I didn't ask him to.

How many people are in your bridal party?

Please don't split couples.

Our bridal party plus spouses/dates would have looked too awkward at a head table (about 30 people). We had a sweetheart table and sat the bridal party with their SOs and friends/acquaintances who were not in the bridal party at different tables throughout the room.

How many are in your wedding party? We each have 3 so we are having their SOs sit at the head table with them. It only adds 5 extra people because the best man and a bridesmaid are married. Can your parents and grandparents sit at a different table so the SOs can sit together?

You can either do a sweetheart table or have your parents and grandparents sit at a regular table so the wedding parties significant other can sit with them.

Please don't split couples up. Have just family with you at the head table or opt for the sweetheart

I agree that splitting couples just seems unnatural. However we have a large bridal party and I think it would be too many with SOs. There are also a few SO's that while I like them... don't necessarily need them to be at the head table. My fiance is a little meh about sweetheart table (the whole center of attention thing, which I know he needs to get over LOL). We may end up just compromising and sitting at a regular round table ourselves with a MOH BM and their SO's. UGH LOL

We are having our families at our table and the bridal party sits together with their SOs. I really wouldnt split them up at the tables.

Don't split up couples, it sucks. I've been the girlfriend that doesn't know anyone at the table and it's just not a good time. If you can't fit all of the bp and their SO's consider doing you, FH, and your immediate families and letting bp sit at other tables with people they know.

We are just doing a sweetheart table because of that everyone in our party is with someone of their family has been invited.

I wouldn't want to go to a wedding where I wasn't allowed to sit with FH

I was a bridesmaid in a wedding where the MOG insisted they do a head table of just the bridal party in the classic 80s way of alternating bridesmaid-groomsman-bridesmaid-groomsman seating. (Yes, the couple gave in, not exactly sure why) So not only did I not get to sit with my husband, I also had to sit next to some guy I've never met, while facing out looking at all of these people, and I couldn't talk to my friend who was also in the bridal party because we would have had to scream across this random groomsman. Plus my husband had to sit with another bridesmaid's boyfriend at the random people table because they couldn't fit with all of our friends at their table. It suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Please figure out a different seating arrangement.

Why not use the head table for family only - parents, grandparents, siblings, etc. and then seat the wedding party with their significant others at tables near the head table?

We're sitting at a table with parents, MOH and her husband, and BM, his wife, and their son. We'll just consider that table 1. I don't need to be on display (standing up in front of people during the ceremony will be awkward for me), and I refuse to split up couples, especially since MOH's husband will literally not know anyone else.

FH and I went to a wedding where he was the best man and I was not in the wedding party. He was sat at the head table, and I was sat at a table far in the back of the room with some people I knew.

It sucked. I was bored. After dinner, FH, the groom, and a few other people came and chilled at the table with me until the band started up and we could all go dance. I got the feeling they didn't want a head table either--they just wanted to hang out with people.