Where are you, your wedding party, and family sitting?

Definitely not #1! I'd be extra pissed if I couldn't sit with my husband AND I wasn't even sitting with the bride and groom in a head table situation.

I think options 2 and 4 are the best, and it's just your preference on having a sweetheart table for just the 2 of you or sitting with some family members!

Absolutely do not separate people from their dates. Period. The end.

We are doing a sweetheart table for us and then one rectangle on either side of our table for the wedding party and their partners. Parents and other close family members will be nearby.

ETA: The rest of the tables will be round.

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I want to sit with my bridal party but we would need a loooooooooong head table to fit 12 BP plus dates!

We are thinking a sweetheart table with VIPS close by

We sat at a sweetheart table and put our parents and WP plus dates at round tables in front of the room closest to us. Don't separate your WP from their dates.

We are doing #4. not all of our bridal party knows each other so we aren't having them all sit together but rather just sit with their respective friend groups.

We're doing a sweetheart table and not keeping the BP in groups as the BP+dates. My BMs are my sisters so they'll sit with my family and the GMs are FH's friends that we'll seat with people they know/ will get along with, which may or may not be just the other GMs.

* I just went to a wedding where FI was the best man and they sat me at another table and I was so uncomfortable.....especially since the other people seated with me didn't show!! So I was sitting all alone....

The groom pulled up a chair and made me move all my stuff to the head table, which was also awkward but it was better than sitting alone lol

We are doing a sweetheart table on a stage and our wedding party is sitting with their dates. I didn't want to separate anybody

UO, I don't see anything wrong with option 3 it is for a couple of hours it isn't like it is going to alter the course of their relationship. Their so can be at a near by table and they can hang out after the dinner hour.

We're doing a sweet heart table so no one in bridal party will be with out their dates. We have two family/bridal party tables close to our table.

We are doing a sweetheart table, putting our bridal party and their plus ones at two nearby tables, and having families at nearby tables.

I wouldn't separate anyone from their dates. The wedding party is already separated from them during the wedding ceremony, and now their dates are on their own for dinner, too? I wouldn't be happy about that.

I also think whether or not to have other people at the head table depends on how many guests you'll have overall. Our wedding is going to be small (maybe 40 people), and there will be 8 in our wedding party, plus our parents. We would end up with half of our guests at the head table if we did a traditional head table with dates. So we're doing either a sweetheart table or a head table with just us and our parents and mixing our wedding party (with dates) between our other guests. Our guests are coming from various parts of the country, and most don't know each other, so we figure putting our closest friends/family with them will make conversation easier.

I just didn't do a VIP table. I am at a sweetheart table and my parents and siblings and stuff are just mixed around with other families. Their tables are closer to the sweetheart, but I didn't have enough (or too many) VIPs to just do one table.

We're doing a king's table type thing, so we'll be w the wedding party, their dates and SOs, our parents, and maybe even our grandmas

IMO, it really sucks to separate dates.

We're doing a sweetheart table, then family tables, then our bridal party and their dates mixed in where they fit. My brother will be with my family, FHs brother with his family, my MOH and her date with my college friends, etc.

I couldn't decide how to do this either, but I decided to go with us at a sweetheart table, and the bridal party will be bear us with their dates, and family on the other side of us. I wouldn't want to be separated from my date either if I was a guest.

We did a head table with rando's lol ...

Usually in RSA, the head table is the wedding couple and their parents ... but due to family issues on DH side we didn't do this. We also didn't want to sit by ourselves at a table. And we didn't want to split up couples (neither the MOH or BM's partners knew anyone else at the wedding, so it would have been pretty sucky for them).

So it was us, my MOH and his date, and the BM and his girlfriend.

We're doing the same at @Vicki -- sweetheart table for us, parents with family, bridal party sitting with their dates/other friends.

We found it easiest to seat everyone at head tables and then the tables closest to the head table were for family and then friends.