Seating for divorced parents and adult siblings

Eek. I'm sorry to hear that it was a rough divorce. I am not in this situation, but I think that if for some reason I was I would sit them at different tables to keep the peace. Do both of your parents have new SO's and any children within their new marriage? That's a tough decision to make.

Both of our parents are divorced, so we sat the dads at one table (with their dates and other people) and the moms at another. My brother couldn't make it, but my DHs siblings were in the bridal party, so they sat at the headtable with us.

My parents are divorced. None of my siblings will be sitting with parents.

Can your parents sit with any of your aunts and uncles from their respective sides? Grandparents?

@Amanda, my mom has a new partner, but my dad is not dating someone right now. Maybe that'll change by next summer.

@the D, I may put my siblings together with my first cousins, and then sit each parent with their respective families. That might work best.

I think what you just said would be a good idea. If your dad happens to be seeing someone by the time of your wedding then of course they would sit at the same table.

I wasn't in this situation, but I was thinking maybe your siblings could go with cousins like you suggested, and seat parents with their friends/family.

I did something similar, where my mother-in-law wanted to sit with HER siblings, so basically all adults, and I seated all the children of those adults together at a cousins table (the youngest was like 15 ranging up to like 38, so it wasn't a "kids" table really). That sounds like a good option for you!

That's so hard. I'm sorry. We are seating my mom and my stepmom at the same table. (My dad passed away.) They are both grandmothers to my daughters, and I knew both would want to be seated next to the girls. I trust that everyone will put their big girl pants on and behave!

Both FH and I have divorced parents. His Mom and his Dad hate each other. They are not sitting together. My parents are surprisingly getting along and may sit together. The kids are sitting with people their own age and not their parents.

My DH's parents are divorced, so we did sat each of them with their own parents, and then sat DH's siblings with us and my siblings. My mom and step-dad were happy to sit with their friends, and then nobody had to choose to sides. Everybody seemed comfortable with this solution, so I'd recommend seating your parents with other relatives, as you mentioned you were considering.

Thanks, everyone. Hopefully, everyone will be on their best behavior.

I sat my mom with a table of friends/uncles (her brothers) and my dad and my step mom with their friends and my dad's sister.

My sister and his sister sat with either cousins or friends, cousins for my sister, friends for his.

We have the same issue with FH family. Luckily we have small tables. FH's brother is sitting at a table with his family. FH's mom is sitting at a table with her boyfriend. FH's father is sitting far away from all of them (doesn't get along with his other son and hates his ex wife) at a table with FH's grandfather. We will have to put a lot of thought into it if we decide to invite FH's step dad too. We would need to keep step dad, dad, and mom all away from each other because none of them get along.

FH's parents are divorced. I am still working on the seating chart. I was going to seat them all at the same table just because even though the divorce was crappy they are amicable for the grandchildren's sake (they have to do a lot of meeting up with the kids visit in the summer because it's all out of state). However I am thinking about how I would feel if I had to sit at the same table as FH's ex at their daughter's wedding and I would not be very happy about it so.... I think I'll put MOG at my family's table and keep FH's sister and nephew at his family's table. Ugh...11 days it'll come together. :-)

My FH's parents are divorced and while they are very civil I am choosing to sit them at different tables. I am seating my FMIL with my parents because none of her family can attend. My FFIL will be seated with FH's sibling and his parents.

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I would say sit the sibling & mom& dad separate to be fair!

I would probably seat siblings and their dates together with either other family members or friends...

My brothers EX-GF used to spend all her holidays and college breaks staying with my family because she didn't want to choose which parent to stay with...