to sweetheart table or not?

Ugly dresses? not my girls... lol....window dressing? really?

@ncbride-here is what I'm talking about. This is a pic that someone here posted several months ago. Since I don't see her on WW anymore I just whited out the faces in the pic. Sweetheart table with two big tables on either side.

I am doing a head table but only me, FS, BM & MOH will sit there while we eat, do toast, etc. Then after that my MOH will sit with her Mom and BM will sit with us girlfriend.

Thanks MDLS... @ Kali... that sounds feasible... because no one really sits there all night any way.

I love what mellojean said about the sweetheart table. I actually thought about that. I know I'll be surrounded by people the entire night and I want a chance- right in the middle of it all- to stop, look at FH and say "Wow. We're at our one and only wedding right now!" Hahhaa

We're doing the sweetheart table. It'll be nice for us to sit alone and have that time to ourselves--even if it is for a second to eat and relax and breath. Anyway, I like the idea of my bridal party to be able to sit with their significant others. Most of our bridal party is married or with someone and I don't want them to be separated. I had to go to a wedding alone tonight because FH wasn't invited and it was lonely and I think that couples should be together at a wedding because it's such a special romantic night for everyone.

We're doing a sweetheart table. It lets the BP be with their guest and gives us a few moments alone. Our immediate families are closeby, so I don't think we'll feel completely isolated.

Our reception will be a Sunday picnic style buffet so the only table we will have will be the sweetheart table for us along with our Junior MOH (FS 10 year old daughter) and our Number 1 Groomsman (my 17 year old son). All the other members of the bridal party will be attending with their families so they will be seated with them.

We will be having sweetheart tables but like I've seen I know we will be up talking around a lot of the time so I'm not worried about it

We are having a sweetheart table. It'll be nice to have some time with just the two of us but we will for sure be up and socializing most of the night

Eat first...

then hopefully the guests will come up and chat with you one couple or family at a time...

or you go around to tables toasting and chatting...

this is also why i kinda like it when the bride and groom socialize for at least 15 mins during the end of the cocktail hour.... and then make their grand entrance too.

I saw somewhere recently of doing a headtable in the middle of the room...but making it a normal width rectangual table and having people sit on both sides of it. That way, you get to sit with your bridal party, there is room for SO/spouses and no one is stuck talking to JUST the 2 people on either side of them.

Ahh...wrong pic and I cant get the right one...sorry

We are having a head table but with a sig other table close by if needed. All of our wp that are married or dating..either both are in the party or the other is a college friend who knows about 15 other people.

I attended a wedding a year ago where my FH was best man and the couple had a head table. I sat in the table closest to him, but was very uncomfortable for most of the reception and kept to myself because I didn't know anyone there other than my FH and the bride and groom (and even then, I'd only met them a day before when we arrived at the airport in Florida).

I noticed that they never were in their seat the whole reception, except for the toasts, and I admit... I wished they had gone with a sweetheart table so that I could sit with my FH and not just have him visit every now and then until dinner was over.

@JJ- I was actually thinking about what you said the other day. Is it ok for the bride and groom to join the Cocktail hour if their pictures are done but they havent had their grand entrance from the DJ yet? Our DJ isn't getting there till 1pm, and our cocktail hour (which is really our appetizer hour) is from 12-1. I can't imagine pictures taking an hour since we only have 2 brides maids, 2 groomsmen, a bestman, ring bearer and a MOH.