Seating Charts: Evens vs. Odds

No, and it makes zero sense because your people should be mixed together. A good rule is each person at a table should already know one other person at the table. That way no one feels isolated and everyone has a chance to get to know new people and family members. You obviously sit people at the same table you think would enjoy each other.

I've never heard of even/odd table assignments. AlwaysMs has sound advise. I would add that you could ask each parental unit who they want seated at their table. We gave the parents this option and they appreciated it.

I don't think this is a thing

That's bizarre. I have never heard of that.

Never heard of that.

We went by the table layout our venue provided us. Tables 1-10 were on one side of the dance floor, tables 11-20 were on the other. We didn't need that many tables, but the same principle applies. If your venue is including tables, then I'd just go by what they normally use.

I have no idea how or why I know this.. or where it comes from and we are not doing it BUT I have always heard that the brides family should be the odd numbers because the parents of the bride should be seated at table 1.

I have never heard of this odd/even rule.

I don't know if it's a rule per say, I thought it might just be custom or something like that. I never planned on mixing families since there are so many of each family coming that I don't need to. I just didn't know if I should put my parents at table 1 or table 2.

That's adorable!

But no

If your mom wants an even numbered table, number yours "one" so she can be "two."

Never heard of it.

Never heard of this about numbers. People get assigned to a table where they know the most number of people and get along best.

I never heard of the even/odd table numbers rule. Ask your mom what she was upset about?

Ask your mom

I've never heard of this. I would ask your mom what number table she wants to be say at and number from there.

Interesting. I've never heard of this but it makes sense to me that the brides parents would be at table 1.

I've heard of something similar from my venue coordinator. since the tables are split on both sides of the room, its a way to have both families mixed in vs. grooms side and bride side.

For example tables 1-10 on the left side, bride's family at tables 1 3 5 groom's family at table 2 4 6. Same concept on the other side of the room.

This seems like one of those old traditions that don't really matter to anyone but old people hahaha. I've never heard of it either!

So I talked to my mom today about it. She said that she heard traditionally the brides family sits at the odd numbered tables (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc) and the grooms family sits at the even numbers (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc). Maybe it's just tradition for her family, but as she explained it, since we are doing a sweetheart table we don't really get a number, then bride's parents get the next closest number (something about when there was a head table with the parents, the brides family sat on either side of the bride and groom and then the groom's parents sat on the sides of the brides parents) and then the groom's parents get the next number table. Therefore, bride's guest are at the odd tables and groom's guests are at the even tables.