My wedding is in November. Yes, I have a TON of time to pass before I even need to start thinking about a seating chart. Eventually, that time will come and I'm heavily dreading it. We're sending out invites in a few months and are expecting RSVP's to be in by October.
I have a ton of family in California and a ton in Texas where I live. When my Texas fam flew to California for a baptism, they somehow got sucked into California family drama which ended up causing drama between Texas family members and I think there's now drama between certain Texas and California families (huge headache, I know.)
All of these people are on my guest list. I have sisters fighting with sisters, brothers fighting with brothers, cousins fighting with cousins, sisters stinky eyeing cousins and vice versa. I don't care to know what happened and why it happened, but whatever it was, it happened. NOW, when I think about having to seat e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e, I'm unsure on how I'm going to even do it without having empty seats at a ton of tables (and it just costs me more money to decorate more tables and.. I really don't want to do that)
I've considered going the free-for-all route where you just find a seat and sit, but then I run the risk of having couples not being able to sit together, etc. but gosh darnit, I don't know how I'm going to sit everyone without causing any got darn drama.
I understand that every single person I invite might not even come, but if they do, how do I deal with seating? I have a few reserved tables in mind to keep conflicting families from having to sit next to each other but I have no idea what to do with the extended family (cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.) who are also bickering amongst themselves.
