Wedding party table question

It would be your parents before your bridemaids, sisters or not.

Yeah that's what I thought. But every person I have asked in person thought it was the wedding party that sat there. Thank you for agreeing with what seems like common sense to me

Honestly, it is whoever you want at your table. We will be having our bridal party sitting with us. My parents will be at another table. I've been to weddings where the bridal party was at different tables and the bride & groom sat with their parents. I've also been to a wedding where the bride & groom sat a sweetheart table. You should do what you'd like and will be most comfortable for those closest to you. Honestly it's only for dinner. Let's face it...most people will be up and out of their seats the majority of the reception.

Traditionally it is the wedding party. Yet it is your wedding and you don't have to be traditional. The wedding party is at the main table to, yet again, celebrate the wedding and highlight the wedding attire, etc.

Actually it is traditionally the groom sits on the center left then the bride on the center right. The parents of the groom on the left of the groom and right of the bride. Then the wedding party. That is the tradition. At my wedding it was me and the groom and the parents (6 people total). I had a separate table front and center for the bridal party. It worked out perfectly.

Ok so there really is no set in stone "right way" to do it. Thanks guys! In that case I want our parents and the MOH and best man at our table. And you are absolutely right Spunky Kraut. We won't be sitting much at all so who cares? Actually if the room had a good place for a sweetheart table I would probably go with that so I don't have to pick and choose who is at my table.

We're doing a sweet heart table to get around this problem. My and FH have our little table we share, then the Bridal Party and their sig. others get 2 tables on either side of ours and the parents/grandparents get a table along with any special guests right in front of ours. That way no one is split up from their partner if they have one and we don't have to decide who gets to share a table with us.

At my son's wedding, it was:

• The bride and groom

• The parents of the bride

• The father of the groom

• The mother of the groom and her wife

• The groom's old nanny

You can really do it however you want.

I work at a reception hall and typically if you do a standard head table, it is bride/groom and bridal party with a special reserved table neared the head table for the parents and close loved ones.

We are doing our parents and our BM and MH (which happen to be our siblings), my brother who is a groomsmen and their dates

I honestly in all the weddings I have been to (and I have been to quite a few growing up in NY), the parents NEVER sat at the head table. Then again, it is your day and up to you. The parents usually sit at a table up front right next to the head table.

We are doing a sweetheart table instead, so no worries about who is sitting with us.

Oh wow. I am thinking I may have to rearrange seating and do a sweetheart table. I really can't see having my parents sit somewhere else while my siblings get at the main table. But I don't want to tell the wedding party "sorry you can't sit here despite what tradition says" lol. And there isn't room for everyone. So I am going to look at rouding up a small table for use as a sweetheart table and arrange everyone slightly differently. Thanks guys!

Its typically the Bride and groom and the MOH, Best Man, bridesmaids and groomsmen with the first 2 tables near the wedding party table reserved for parents and immediate family.

We're not sitting with our parents. They are going to host their own tables, with their own closest friends and family members, while we sit with ours (our wedding party, which includes our siblings and some friends).

Ok I am going to be honest here. Part of the reason I wanted my parents at my table is to keep my dad away from the other guests. He never knows when to hold his tongue or not crack a joke and he embarrasses us all the time. If I can keep him occupied, there is less chance of damage being done

This is something I have been thinking about alot.. I had the same question! Thank you Sara for asking. Now I have a much better idea of what to do too.

I am having a total dilemma with this one too. I would like a sweetheart table but if we have a high RSVP rate we literally will not have the space to do it.

The traditional "head table" doesn't make sense for us since most of our WP is coming with their parents/children/Sig. others and our parents are all re-married so it doesn't make sense to take them away from their husbands & wives to sit with us.

Worst case, we have been thinking about having a couple special friends and family members who were not in the ceremony sit with us sisters & brothers, cousins etc)

We are doing a sweetheart table too. My other consideration is that our attendants are married or happily coupled so to have their spouses/partners sit without them is kinda odd. So they will get prominent seating at front tables but no head table.

It how you want to do it. But usually your bridal party sits at the head table and your family ae seated closest to the bridal party. Or you can not have a head table and the bride and groom sit at the main table and you seat your bridal party elsewhere.

I'm with Didi R. I have never been to a wedding where the parents sat at the head table. We're having us, the MOH and BM and the BM and GM. We will have 2 tables just in front of the head table reserved for parents and immediate family (one for mine and one for his).

That being said, you can do whatever feels most comfortable for you. You could even have (if you have space) your whole wedding party AND your parents, you don't HAVE to choose.