Seating charts are so hard!

I haven't done our seating yet but I feel like in your situation I would make family/friend tiers like sit your first cousins with his first cousins, your closest friends with his closest friends, ect. That way the relationship to you guys is similar and maybe they can relate that way? I'd also try to sit your family/friends across from each other rather than next to each other. That way there isn't 1 side of a table leaning over trying to only talk to that side of the table. I'd think people talk more and socialize more with people across the table from them.

Hi Haley - love all of your tips! Literally zero of my cousins are coming (which I was honestly relieved by, lol) .. the only family members in attendance will all be sitting at the head table with us (my mom, dad and mom's sister) and then my brother at another table (to force him to be social, it's for his own good). Haha. But we can definitely seat all of our close friends near each other. We will try to put some of the more outgoing Swedish people near our American friends but maybe keep the older members of his family near one another.

Haha. Yeah I'd just say keep the same age groups or relationships together. Maybe put older people near older people. Like you were saying, put the outgoing people near your friends.

Yes that does help! I'm really glad you mentioned that. There are a small handful of older folks (like my fiancé's maternal grandmother, partner, etc) who would definitely benefit from that for sure. Maybe we will put our friends at the middle table, older folks/family of my fiancé at the table on the left, and the younger family members (like my fiancé's sister and her husband, fiancé's cousins, etc) at the table on the right. This is all becoming so clear now! Yay. Hopefully my fiancé will agree with this come Sunday, lol. The one nice thing about our seating arrangement is that there will be space between each row for people to get up! I remember when my fiancé's sister got married last year, she had the same seating chart but the aisles were too close together and I got stuck many times. I was placed at the very inner corner closest to the head table, and my fiance was on the opposite side, so we both suffered.

I might consider that except for a select few who I think would have a blast talking to some of my fiancé's family members. Thanks for your input!