Sweetheart table or Bridal party at table??

I think we are going to do the sweetheart table. My MOH is married with 3 kids. His BM is married. I feel like they'd prefer to be with their families while eating. Plus, it will kind of give us a little alone time. And if you want to avoid the feeling that everyone is watching you eat then maybe have some assigned to make the plates for you all if you are having buffett or make sure you get served first if you are having a sit down. That way you'll be sure to be eating while everyone else is and they won't be staring at you!

Well I love the thought of the sweetheart table but I prefer the bridal party table. We are sitting immediate family along with our bridal parties kids, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends etc close to us that way everyone is pretty much close together and not spread out across the room.

Well we are having both and I agree with Anita C. we will have their spouse sit close to them so they can go communicate and not have to travel the room. We are having a kids table for the couple of kids that will be there.

We are doing a sweetheart table and a bridal party table. The bridal party table will be on the opposite side of us. I like the idea of the sweetheart table because gives that one on one with your spouse, even though everybody will be watching you.

We are doing the bridal party table. Fh was very much against the sweetheart table and everyone watching us.

We are doing a sweetheart table for pretty much the same reason you are thinking of doing one. We have people in the bridal party that don't know most of the people that would be there and their spouses will be sitting at a table by themselves having no fun. Besides I like the idea of having some "alone" time at the reception, since we will be around so many people the rest of the time

I haven't thought about this much, except for I debated on having a wedding party table at all, because I thougth that they would want to be with their own friends, basically the same reasoning as you and FM Bansmer have. I think I'm leaning more towards a sweetheart table

We are choosing to do a sweetheart tablel, the main reason for me is because I hate how formal and stuffy the bridal table feels with everyone sitting in one direction and you can't talk to anyone other then who is seated on the side of you, plus I want our bridal party to be able to mingle with their family and friends. And I like having my husband all to myself for a little while before we begin really mingling and everything

We are doing a sweetheart table. Everyone else can feel free to mix and mingle and we get some one on one time... Either way we won't be sitting down for all that long in reality.

DH and I sat alone, our bridal party had their significat other, friend or kids and we didn't want them to sit away from them.

We only have a MOH and BM, so we are doing the bridal party table. It will be small and intimate.

@Jessica...You are spot on about sitting for long.

I think we are doing a sweetheart table, too. Pretty much everyone in our bridal party, minus my 15 year old sister, has significant others, so that way they will be able to sit with each other.

We didn't really do either. At the luncheon after the wedding, everyone was seated around one big table. At the at-home reception, neither of the members of the wedding party was present. We therefore grabbed some friends who had been particularly helpful, along with their guests/dates, and put them at a table with us. It was not a head table in the sense of one where everyone sat on one side, but just a normal round table like all the others.

We're doing a bridal party table because we just don't like the idea of sitting by ourselves like the king and queen. The dates of the bridal party will be seated with other people they're close to.

I know that we'll be doing a sweetheart table, and my cousin did a sweetheart table when she got married. In our family, it's like a place of honor for the bride and groom for everyone else to celebrate, but we let everyone else wander around as they please, we usually don't have arranged seating (though with some of our family, we might have to!! lol). But I think a sweetheart table is a great idea. It's your day! It's okay to feel a lil like royalty if you want!

I kind of have this problem too... i like the idea of a bridal party table, but i know at least two of the bridal party will be married by that time (possibly more) and most of the others will have dates. and i personally know how awkward it is to be that date of someone in the party without your date to sit by. so we'll probably end up doing a sweetheart table.

I am going to do a bridal party table. I figure the only time they are at that table is to eat and the toast. The rest of the time my bridal party can be with their guest/spouses.

I don't want to just sit with FH (I mean I will be doing that the rest of my life) and want to be to spend a little more time with the bridal party.

I am in a wedding in July and I know they are having a bridal party table as well and the MOH is pissed about it. I personally don't mind and FH knows I will be able to spend time with him at the wedding after I do my BM duties.

We are doing a sweetheart table. All but 2 of our bridal party is married with kiddos. We didn't want to separate families. No one complained, we just decided it was best that way.

I get that people bring dates and they will sit alone or whatever, but really? I guess I just can't understand why people can't spend an hour or so eating or sitting with someone besides their date. If it's that big of a deal to sit with strangers, don't come. As far as kids go, I think that's an entirely different story, but we are having a kids table with two high school girls in charge of that one. The dates are obviously going to sit without their bridal party date during the ceremony, why can't they do it to eat dinner and listen to speeches. There is plenty of time afterwords to be with each other.

Im having both sweetheart & bridal tables because I think w/the sweetheart when people come to greet you as husband & wife then they want have to reach over everybody & plus I want my man to myself for a little while to reflect!