Where did you/will you seat your parents?

Had my MIL not been a psycho, I had originally placed her at the table with my parents...b/c she refused to sit at the table for DH's family. But she insisted she get her own table and didn't care where she sat...so I put her with her friends in a back corner.

My family had their own table and DH's family had their own table...but that was actually per request of my momma.

I think you can do whatever is comfortable and appropriate for your families. I will say, I don't think seating arrangements are the time to be symbolic, I think it should be about comfort.

We had 3 sets for parents - H's dad, my dad, my mom. My parents are divorced, and they hit their togetherness threshold walking me down the aisle as a team. They were much happier and more relaxed at their own tables.

We haven't decided what we're doing yet. Like you, I intend to have the bridal party sit at other tables (with their dates and friends). Since you guys will be at your own table, I'd try to find out if your FH's parents would like to sit with their parents. Sometimes people would rather sit with their family members that they don't get to see as often.

I think that we won't have a sweetheart table; then we can sit at one table with our parents and our three siblings...or my three grandparents.

I've been thinking about seating as well. While my and FH's parents get along well I thought it would be more fun for them each family to sit at their own table. I also read somewhere also that doing this allowed the "guests of honor" (Parents of the wedding couple) to be scattered around so that there wouldn't be clumps of people gathering at just one table to say congrats to the parents.

Both of our parents are divorced, so we knew we weren't seating them together. We also had 3 "parents tables." One was my mom/stepdad and their sisters and brothers. One was DH's mom and his friends growing up that she knew. And the third was his dad, my dad, his half-brother, and my best friend who's known my dad forever (and their families). We tried to think of who knew each other or who would get along. I hate eating dinner with strangers -- plenty of time to mingle on the dance floor or after dinner! But I will say, I don't think my mom and his mom said 3 words to each other (although in my case, my mom was being pretty rude the whole evening, so it was probably for the best!). Our dads on the other hand exchanged numbers and are now planning a comedy tour

I think we will be putting our parents at separate tables with their own families.

As long as my parents are sitting far away from eachother.. doesn't matter. We won't have real seating arrangements so I'm just hoping for the best. (we don't have tables either so.. we'll see)

I echo Chris's sentiments. Cate had 3 parents tables. On one side of the dance floor her DH had a table, her IL had a table and, on the other side of the dance floor, I had a table. Guests were seated with people they knew at the other tables. Since I only had 26 guests out of 250, Cate gave me the courtesy of putting our three tables next to one another.

Seating can get very controversial.

In all honesty, the ex and I had pretty much exhausted our togetherness. Between the shower, the men's gathering after the shower, the tasting, and all of getting dressed at the ex's mother house(a block from church). Basically, I had partied with them enough and wanted to be with my peeps. His new wife is a very weird drunk.

Our table seat 8.....My parents are recently divorced and have new partners... FH parents are still together... I am sitting them all at the same table.... I have already let them know that they don't have to party the night away together, but I expect that they be civil to each other for the short time that they are sitting there... after the formalities are done, they are free to go mingle and sit where ever they would like

Thanks for the insight, ladies! Still haven't decided what to do, but all this info is definitely helpful. I'm leaning towards seating his parents and my parents at separate tables. I think this will be easier for the other guests as well. For example, if our parents were seated together and IL's family friend wanted to talk with ILs, the the family friend might feel forced to make awkward small talk with my parents too, just to be polite. That wouldnt be comfortable for anyone.

We aren't doing seating arrangements. I think that my parents and in laws can sit wherever they feel comfortable.

I would ask your FILs what they would like as well and go from there.

We have not finalized our seating chart but I am thinking separate tables for each family plus there is a language barrier and they will not be able to mingle as much

I'm going to seat all the parents,grandparents and godparents at one table. They should be able to behave for one night.

We had tables of 8 and since my parents and DH's parents all get along so well (we've spent Christmases, Thanksgiving, etc together), we put my parents, my grandmother and aunt, DH's parents, his sister and her fiance all at one table. We had a head table with our wedding party. Only 2 of 4 wedding party members had their spouses at the wedding and these people sat with friends. Everything worked out really well.