Parents Sitting Together at Reception

FFIL and FMIL will be at 2 different tables with their siblings (fmil and ffil are not together). My parents will be at a table with my sister+fam and my mom's sister+partner and a cousin (they always sit together at events.)

We are not. My parents are sitting with their family members. FH’s dad and stepmom sitting with their family and his mom and stepdad sitting with theirs!

I’ve never seen the bride and groom’s parents sit together. Usually they sit with their own families. That’s what we did at my last daughter’s wedding and will do again for my next daughter’s.

Oh they will definitely be setting seperate. My family is a tad judgmental as far as drinking and we'll being a jerk. His dads family are drunks and total jerks. His moms family and my family are okay together but they are both so big they wont all fit at one table.

We had my parents and my husband's mother at the same table. We had small tables and no formal dinner service, though. Our parents hadn't met until the day before the wedding, so I wanted them to spend time together a little bit - we're all family now, right?

View Quoted Comment This sounds just like my family. So funny. Thanks for sharing.

View Quoted Comment Very true; they’re all family now. My parents are 30+ years older than my FH’s family and it’s a bit awkward. My mom speaks to my FMIL as if she is her mother lol

View Quoted Comment I think I will do the same thing; have my parents sit with my siblings and other family. Thanks!

I think we're seating everyone together. My parents abs my in laws get along great, and we are all family now anyway!!! I think that's how they want it anyway. Plus, the only "assigned" table we plan to have is for immediate family.

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My parents are much older than my MIL, too - they're around the age her parents would be if they were still alive. Thankfully, they all got along great.

We are still working on seating but it would be nice for our parents to sit together. They all get along and our siblings get along as well, so I don't think there would be issues with that. But it'll likely depend on how the rest of the seating shakes out, since they've all said that they don't mind either way, sitting together or separately

Our parents did not sit together. They get along wonderfully— H’s Mom actually stayed with my parents over the wedding weekend . But, they all had their own families and siblings and best friends coming in, they sat with their respective loved ones

Our parents get along fine but obviously most people would prefer to sit with their own loved ones. We're letting them choose who they want at their own tables. Everyone else will be at tables with the people they know best/will get along with best so it seems silly to not do the same for our parents

Our parents are divorced and still angry after 20+ years. I’m putting our moms together, his dad with his grandmother, my dad with his stepsons and my stepdad with friends we think he’ll get along with. I’m not sitting with any parents bc I don’t want it to look like I chose one of them.

We are having an intimate wedding. So we aren’t even doing a seating chart. People tend to gravitate toward who they want to sit with anyway.

I guess it just depends on how well the sets of parents know each other. at my bff's wedding the parents all sat at the same table because they're friends. but if the parents didn't know each other well, or had wildly different sets of views i would sit them apart

My parents will be sitting apart from FHs parents. Both set of parents tables will be closest to us. We will have them have their own tables that way their friends, parents, siblings, etc can sit with them.

My family will all be sitting together, and my FH's family will be together at a separate table from my family. We have a lot of close relatives from out of town that my mom wants to sit with!

Our parents will be sitting at separate tables with their own family members. Our parents have met several times and get along great - but I want them to be more comfortable and sit with their brothers/sisters/parents... etc.

Why would you seat them together? We've been friends with my sil's parents for years now, however, it never occurred to us to sit together. We had our own VIPs to sit with.