Seating Charts- Who sits with who?

A little of both:

#1: Us, bridesmaids, and their guests

#2: groomsmen and their guests

#3: parents, FHs grandma, and FHs siblings

#4: a mix of our aunts and uncles

#5: more aunts, uncles, and some cousins

#6: more cousins on both sides, my brother and his fiancee

#7: my college friends

#8-10: misc. friend groups and special guests.

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Wow Courtney, great list! So concise. I like it. That should definitely work out for you.

Couples or immediate families together (unless divorced or don’t get along), but then tables were grouped by interest/commonalities: party/sales people, conservatives, artists. Worked out GREAT. Two ladies I sat next to each other happened to be friends 10 years ago and reconnected at our reception. Another two couples just met and went out drinking after our reception. Success!

I plan on family and associations and age.
My parents and grandmother. Then their friends.
Kinda handing fiances family over to future mother in law.
Sorority sisters and their dates.
Bridesmaids spouses and kids.
Mohs spouse, kids, and mohs parents.
Groomsmen spouses and kids. (They all know each other)
My aunt and uncle are sitting at one table with my uncles daughter and her husband and her kids.
Next to that table, my uncles ex wife, her husband, and their other daughter, her husband and their kids.
Since there are 8 adults and potentially 7 or 8 kids, the kids may be intermingled between the two tables.
This aunt, uncle, former aunt, and her husband are all on super amazing terms, as the divorce was almost 3 decades ago. But I consider both couples family.
There will be a whole lot of playing with lists and post it's when RSVPs come rolling in.

I would keep households together and friends together. Personally I think it's best to make sure they have 1 person on the table they know. Then mix by interests etc (or association)

Personally I thinks it's best to stay clear of singles table. And if there are people that know some people don't just put them by people you think they might, most pepper want the comfort of having at least 1 person they know

We are doing a mix. My parents, brothers and godparents will sit together. His parents, 2 uncles, and close neighbors wi sit together. Then it's a table of cousins. A table of my aunts and uncles. And a mix of friends sorted by where they know each other/age/interests. It's really just dinner which is only an hour or so, so I'm not too worried about it. Just want to make sure everyone has a spot for the night.

I don't want a seating chart, but FH does. So, I told him that's his project. I've suggested to him to do 2 reserved tables of VIPs and let the rest of the tables go unassigned. Our group is closest family and friends, so the way I see it is they can all sit with each other without an issue. And, if they have some issue it'll be their own fault. I've heard from many of my friends who are married that the seating chart tends to be the most stressful/annoying part of things with people wondering why they were sat this far away or with so and so. No thanks lol.

I am putting them together by friend groups and family members that are siblings/parents and their kids. Any oddball family members I put them with family they typically talk to most. Other members may not know friends directly so I use my best judgement on who would talk to who and be a good match up.

First were by friend/family groups, and then we went my personality matches. I had 3 different parent tables so it made things a little weird - especially when we only had 8 tables total!

So my FH has a very large family. His dad is one of 9 kids. Therofre the way we are going about our seating chart is putting each sibling (so FH's aunt or uncle) at a table and then having that persons children and spouses at the table as well. So its each little family at a table together in a room full of expanded family if that makes sense. My side is smaller so I'm just putting whoever frommy family together because everyone gets along luckuily.

More like who would want to sit next to each other & be most fun. Most families are sitting together, but I'm more putting people with who will have the best time at the reception.

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Thank you. Thankfully our friends are family and our family are friends. Many know one another already so putting them together wasn't hard.

We were originally going to mix it all up but a lot of his family speaks spanish and ours speaks english. I think most will have more fun where they are more comfortable and can talk back and forth, so there will be a semi his side her side. Then bridesmaids with dates together, groomsmen with dates together, friends together, co workers together, The few cousins that are in the same (20ish) age bracket are all together and the aunts and uncles together.

Hopefully that will work?!

A mixture of both. H has a huge family, so some cousins were together, some was by family depending on how many. We had 8 ppl at a table so certain families were able to all fit, some were combined. College friends were together, one table with family friends from one town, another table with family friends from another. I tried to make sure the groupings had people that knew each other even they weren't specifically close.

I had only 1 table made up of people who didn't really fit a specific group.

We kept households together. We grouped H's extended family together at 1 table and all of my extended family together at 1 table. H's friends all sat at 1 table and my friends all sat at 1 table. Our church small group sat at 1 table. H's parents friends all sat at 1 table. The only table that was mixed was one of the tables that held my dad's friends (there were two tables of his friends). The parents of one of my MOH and their other daughter (and her boyfriend) were also seated there. I had wanted to seat them with my mom at her family table (since they are basically like family to me), but she only had 3 open seats and I needed 4.

We're trying to do it by family! Not necessarily in groups of relationship type but just in general.

For example, in my rough draft, I have my aunt and uncle and their 2 boys with my grandparents and my cousin and his plus one because they all know each other and I wanted that cousin to be towards the front of the room for the reception

Thank you all so much for your input!!! Much appreciated and will definitely go back to this forum when it's time for me to start mine!

I’m kind of doing a mixture. Households aren’t staying together. Rather my aunts & uncles are at a table together, some of my cousins are at another table, co-workers & friends w/ common interest will be at another table.
This was the way that I enjoyed wedding the most. I’ve know my parents & it was always nice to catch up w/ my cousins who I haven’t seen lately.

I plan on mixing it up. Parents together, mixture of friends and co workers.

I'm waiting for the rest of our rsvps but dreading the seating chart. We already have people sending us messages asking us not to seat them with so and so. We're doing families first, then trying to combine co workers, and people who we think are similar in personality,