Seating

Well, I don't know! My wedding coordinator doesn't get involved with events without a seating chart. LOL to each it's own. I think it'll be fine. Do whatever makes you happy.

It’s been awkward for me at weddings with getting separated from people I knew, or people moving chairs around

Well in my culter, we have an open sitting and everything turns out great. the guest knows where they like to be seated at and with whom to sit.

Im having open seating with the option to reserve seats. Im placing place cards & a pen at my welcome table. If anyone needs to reserve seats for their family members. People are grown they can figure out how to seat themselves

What’s your guest count? I was originally going to do open seating but once my guest least exceeded 150 I realized it could be a bit chaotic. Especially if you’re doing traditional introductions, first dance, etc. You don’t want people scrambling to find a seat with their preferred friends/family when you’re ready to get the party started.

View Quoted Comment I’m at about 100 guests as of now I have yet to send out the invitations, so that number could change.

View Quoted Comment That is what I’m trying to do. My only concern is I do have one side of the family that is somewhat fussy if they do not get what they want.

View Quoted Comment I hadn’t thought about it from that angle. Thank you so much!

View Quoted Comment As of right now, I do not have a wedding planner. We are trying to save as much as we can, I’m considering quite a few people have gotten married in my family, I’m using them as a reference. As of now, I really am liking the idea of open seating, but having a set place for the parents near the head table with the bride and the groom.

View Quoted Comment That is an amazing idea! Thank you so much.

As a guest, I hate open seeing. It is awkward and forces your guests to choose who they want to sit with. It also came be very disorganized and actually can cause you to spend more money on seating.

Hopefully couples/families don’t get separated.

I have not even begun to think about seating for my wedding yet. Then again the invites have not even gone out yet.

We had open seating and zero problems. I'll add that we had more available seating than people

If you don’t have a lot of guests coming it could be okay, but I would be worried about couples or families having to spilt up if they are late finding seats. If I were you I would reserve places for family members, if you plan on taking family pictures after the ceremony, they will be the last people in the reception

I was going to go with open seating too but my family is aginst it. I keep trying to tell them that I am paying for it so it is not their call but it doesn't seem to help. I feel that every one should sit where they want.

It's all personal preference. I have been to a few open seat weddings and they were okay. The only thing that happened was some guests moved chairs to another table so they could sit with other people where tables were already full.

My FH and I decided to do a seating chart so we do not have that issue. We know who of our guests know each other and we will sit them with who they are friends with and around other people they know as well. We are also doing it because we want an even number of people at each table. At a wedding my FH and I went to last year they had open seating and 2 tables were left empty with no chairs around them because some guests moved their chairs and place settings to squeeze in at other tables.

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much. With all this feed back imma do a seating chart with an extra space at each table so we can go socialize

I think open seating would work well with a very small guest list. Maybe no more than 50, to be honest. Anything over that and it could become problematic.

We aren’t making a seating chart either. We will just jags two or three tables reserved for close family and leave the rest open