Seating Charts are HARD!

Ugh, I have been dreading that part for months. And every day it gets closer, I get more anxiety about it...not looking forward to it! (and we haven't even sent invites yet, lol!)

Ugh, so not looking forward to this, but won't be able to procrastinate much longer

I have several more months, and I'm still dreading it. Good luck!

I swear I'm the only person who didn't seem to have a single issue with a seating chart.

In our case most of our guests only sat to eat dinner, they were all at their tables for a whopping 20 minutes together and it's only for one night. Don't overthink it.

I redid ours like 10 times and boy do I regret the amount of time wasted. They sat for 20 minutes to eat. I don't think it would have mattered who the heck they sat beside. After dinner everyone kind of went their own way, dance floor, photobooth, candy bar, regular bar, sat at different tables. Don't stress yourself out over this!

Ugh I am not looking forward to this at all. I also have to make sleeping charts for the lodges at the venue. SLEEPING CHARTS. Thank god I can wait about 10 months before I do this.

I was a very relaxed bride for my entire engagement. Nothing stressed me out. Except for that stupid seating chart. I ended up pretty much giving up and throwing random people together. Oh well.

Our Guest List was written on an Excel document. I saved it as Seating, deleted the 2 address columns and put the first letter of the entree choice, after the guest name, after they responded. When we had received most of our responses, I just cut and pasted the names and moved them around. The venue gave us a template of where the tables would be placed, and I assigned numbers to them and each group of 9-10 guests. It only took about 10 minutes, for 100 people, and was easy to change.

Family drama is making this so hard for me too! His parents won't sit at the same table and I don't know who else to put at his dad's table bc there are so few people on that side of the family! This means roughly 1/3 of my guest list has to sat at the "parent tables" !

Oh god, the seating chart was the most painful part of the planning process for us! We were so proud of ourselves when we came up with what we thought was the perfect arrangement -- we had everyone sitting in groups that they would enjoy, and figured that would be perfect. WRONG. Having everyone spread out that way meant that we had a bunch of important people sitting at far away tables no matter what, which we didn't like. So we grouped the wedding party and family together a little more.

Don't forget that guests will really only be sitting there for an hour, so it's not the end of the world if people are not in their perfect situation...

ETA: we did exactly the same as Beach Babe, except that it wasn't so easy making the groupings lol

Oh my gosh the seating chart was sooo much fun! You got to play God and tell people where to sit! Fun! We didn't stress until 2 days before the wedding when we had to combine two tables into one because we got 3 declines that were originally accepted. We had already printed our seating chart poster so we had to print up an addendum note to tell people that they were moved all to one table. I highly recommend doing the RSVP's through the WeddingWire website, trust me, you'll thank me later. You can then automatically use the seating chart once you get those people loaded on there. We did table number ages so we had 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 17, 20, 28, 33. That I think was fun and kept with our theme. We also had a live band and trivia. Think about who would have fun together. Who knows one another. It's a fun puzzle. I promise!

I had my mom look over my seating chart, I only had one person I had a problem with but I got it figured out. I have 48 4 top tables though. so it wasn't too hard putting people together or apart.

I just want people to sit and eat and not curse each other out, lol. But at the end of the day I won't find out they fought until after the wedding day so I guess it's ok, lol. I laugh to keep from crying :,(

@Amy I will try to take in some of your positive vibes

It's definitely not fun. I needed some big girl drinks after that

Omg this is what im dreading my parents dont like each other at all cant sit them together and all

Omg this is what im dreading my parents dont like each other at all cant sit them together and all

This was the first thing i got nervous about when we got engaged!! I finally told myself not to stress until i had to, which is not for several more months! Hopefully with WW I won't have to worry too much.

I'm not super worried about it right now...but I'm sure once May rolls around I'll be singing a new tune.

I hattttted this part. I mean really hated it. No one dislikes each other, but it's just so not fun to do (where is all the fun crafty stuff?) I just finished making the seating chart sign and my wedding is Friday (that's how long I put it off).

Really haven't put too much thought into seating charts yet, but in all honesty, I probably won't even toward the end stages of planning. But, our guest list is only 30-40 people, and that includes our vendors. My only concern really, because we're doing a modified sweetheart table rather than a head table, is keeping the one groomsman (age 42) away from my grandmother (age 76, and according to said groomsman, super hot)