Last Table

What do you mean by last table?

I reserved my last table for those invitees that didn't RSVP and it actually was almost full. At the tables nearest to us were my family, boss and coworkers along with my pastor who officiated and his wife, my hubbys boss and coworkers. However my hubbys family is very large so I gave them several relatively close tables. I put friends and our church members in the third row and mingled them. The final rows were filled the vendors so's. We invited 120 and had about 130 show. It worked out perfect.☺

View Quoted Comment Say you are having 10 tables....the 10th table. In my case it's the 17th table farthest from the dance floor.

View Quoted Comment That is genius!

Thanks😀 our wedding was held on a Wednesday night (school night =no kids) and we were ecstatic to have a full house, however and this is were it differs from your question. Our ceremony and reception were held at our church. Ceremony upstairs, reception downstairs so there was no dancing nor alcohol which was fine with us. We are on the mature side me/55 and he/65, widow/widower, so for us those aspects weren't important to us as we did all of that with our late spouses. We mainly wanted 120+ ppl to witness our wedding then eat a hearty meal...then go home...lol

However to further answer your question...we set our tables up stadium style and we had about 19 tables. There was still room to move around comfortably but no need to as we had ushers to serve everyone. Hubs and I went to each table and thanked each and every person, selfies included.

FMILs friends I have never met and have no business being there other than to please her 😀 (who have all rsvp'd yes)

View Quoted Comment I understand this on so many levels. We wanted a small wedding and my fmil handed me a list of 75 people that she wanted invited....that did not include their spouses. 😒

"Last table"?? I guess there really is something to the point my daughter made when she said people judge how close they are to the couple by how high - or low - their table number is.

Makes me happy then that she's decided not to use numbers. Each table will have a name, so no real 'ranking' of the tables.

View Quoted Comment We had to redo our list, which meant FH isnt inviting any of his teammates (whom weve met multiple times and treat me incredibly well- some of them even hug me!) Just to accomodate her friends and long lost relatives.

We’re having a vendor table, so I guess that will be it. But our dance floor is in the middle, so in our case it would be the closest to the door I guess.

View Quoted Comment I hate that so much for you and I get it. They dont realize it's yours and your FH day not theirs. I am sick daily over something new with fmil.

View Quoted Comment I didn't realize I need a vendor table. Thank goodness for this forum!

View Quoted Comment I can relate to this too. FSIL got married a few months ago so FH’s Grandma had a list of everyone they invited to her wedding that they had made together and let us use for addresses. Most were long lost relatives I had never even heard of and the last page literally said “Class of 1964” at the top...all of the people his grandparents graduated high school with!! I was like NO. We haven’t sent invites out yet, so we’ll see if it becomes an issue 😬

But I will probably put either vendors or long lost family and friends at the last table...most likely vendors

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It's not the number that matters so much as the placement of the table relative to the couple. The principle is still the same. People generally aren't going to put their VIPs and best friends at the far end of the room, but instead, that is where they put people the "had" to invite and/or don't know very well.

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You may not. Check with your venue. My venue had a little room where the vendors could take a break and eat their meal away from the guests.

Lol. This post reminds me of the movie "table 19". It's about how table 19 are the random people that had to be invited but are a bit out of place. Also I'm fairly close with the majority of our guests but it just works out that our parents friends will be furthest from us so last table. But there are perks including being closer to the dance floor and restrooms.

We don't have a "last" table per say...our dance floor is in the middle of the room and we have tables on each side and I think I will put us in the middle on the side without the food right by the dance floor. So although we don't have a "last" table with table numbers and its not obviously the furthest table away from us, we are putting FH's sister and her kids in the corner on the other side of the room. Our wedding is more formal and we want the kids kind of out of the way, and their family unit is too big to be at FH's main family table.

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I don't think you need a vendor table? Or at least it hasn't been mentioned to me. I assumed vendors would eat in the back, where the food is being prepped? I have never noticed a vendor table at weddings...maybe the photographer sitting down for a moment and having some cake. I feel a vendor table would be odd, as it would be empty most of the time and I am assuming you wouldn't go to the effort of decorating that table like the rest, making it stand out.

View Quoted Comment Some venues have a vendor table, others have a room where the vendors go. My ex was a DJ and when I helped him with weddings this was what we encountered. We never had to sit in the kitchen. That would have been odd and we probably would have been in the way of the kitchen staff.