Seating at a Small Wedding - Help Please!

There's nothing wrong with that at all. Have tables of 4 or 6 and the two of you at your own table.

I think a few smaller tables would definitely be better than one or two long tables. Are you having a seated meal? Finger foods?

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Thanks for the feedback - we are having a sit-down dinner. I think the 1-2 long table thing really only works when everyone is one big happy family.. not really the case with our group unfortunately! We just want everyone to be comfortable so that WE can be comfortable!

I agree with futuremrsO...having a sweetheart table will reduce the chances of anyone feeling slighted

Having a few tables might make it a little easier for folks to eat and for the servers to get around to everyone, too, in that case. Happy planning!

I have the same situation. His parents are divorced and it was not friendly (his dads a douche) and this steered me away from doing a big family table. He'll sit with his new wife and my parents will sit a table and his mom will probably sit with my parents.

If you like the idea of a sweetheart table, that's fine. But to me it doesn't make much sense with a small wedding, although I don't have a particularly rational argument for it. All our parents are divorced, and we just put other people between them. They're the same way - it's just awkward but nothing dramatic. It worked out just fine. The thing is that the sweetheart table doesn't resolve the problem of divorced parents sitting somewhere close in a 30 people wedding.

We are having a small wedding as well, 30-40 guests, and we are doing a long table with everyone seated together - I feel like its just more inviting and "homey" for such a small group. We weren't going to do a seating arrangement, but have had feedback that it will be less awkward to the group if we seat them. We will put our families and their guests at our end, and our friends (who mostly all know eachother) at the other end.

The only issue I have - it will be our families first time meeting eachother - and his family completely hates me (although, that feeling is totally mutual!)...so it may be a little awkward. But, i'll keep a margarita in hand, and mingle with others!

Thanks for the help, ladies! Right now I'm thinking of something sort of in between. My friend and I went to the venue last weekend to play around with some seating ideas. The tables fit perfectly in a U-shape around the dance floor, so I think we're going to set up several smaller rectangular tables of 6-8 people on each side, that are lined up so that they're almost like having 2 long tables on each side, only with space in between for people to get in and out. Then our sweetheart table will be in the middle, very close to the ends of the other tables, facing everyone in the group. This way we can put parents on separate sides of the room, but each can be on the end near our sweetheart table, and friends down at each end of the "U." Kind of solves the problem of which set of parents would sit closest to us, but still keeps them separated from each other. There's a buffet dinner, so no server issues. Hopefully this works... Thank goodness for open bar!!