Who's sitting with who? Are you mixing up your guests or seating them with people they know?

I'm putting my guests by people they know, unless they don't know anyone. In which case I'm trying to put them near folks that they would get along with. We will have harvest tables, so most people will be within talking distance of people they don't know as well. Best of both worlds!

Both! At our local reception we had 50 guests and assigned seats...

We put friends/co-workers next to each other but we mixed others up if we felt there were better matches for them. We created tables by interest/personality type and it worked great! Artists, conservatives, party/sales people, etc. Two couples had been friends 20+ years ago and reconnected at our wedding! Another table had so much fun they went out after our reception!

Most of my friends are from different points in my life so we will just have to do like with like seating.

I’m not doing assigned seating. There will be reserved seats for family & then everyone else can sit where they want.

We created our seating chart by placing the most important people at the tables we wanted first (i.e. parents and bridal party, some family). Then we just placed other people around the room at tables where they knew other guests. Not everyone sat with people they knew but they at least had their dates/family/at the same table even if they were with strangers. Our chart actually only took about 20 minutes with 145 guests.

No seating chart for us. Come in and mix and mingle.

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Basically this for us!... We have his dad's side, his mom's side, my parents side, his friends, my friends. Some are slightly mixed based on not knowing a lot of people and getting along.

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That's awesome!! Perfect way to give guests the opportunity to mingle if they want!

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I love that!! That's such a good idea, and I'm so glad it worked out and people were hitting it off!

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Assigned seats (or at least tables) is a great way to go.

We did assigned tables. Most family was kept together. Friend groups were kept together. People that weren't in the same circle, we put them with people we felt they would like.

We haven’t worked out the seating chart yet but it will probably end up being a combination. We’ll keep family and good friends together but mix up those groups with people we think they’ll enjoy getting to know and celebrating wjtb

We're doing a little bit of both. We want our family and friends to be comfortable and with people they know at the wedding, but we also want to encourage our families to get to know each other so we will be mixing it up slightly!

We are having 45 guest so is just 5 tables. I plan on having 2 family tables mine and his, 2 friends table mine and his and 1 table that’s friends of our family. That’s the only table people don’t know the each other but they’re about all the same age.

For groups I can make a full table with, I'm seating them with people they know (like family with family and my graduate school friends and professors with each other). For groups of like 2 or 3, I'm mixing them with other groups that I feel they'll get along with, including our wedding party who will be mixed in with the different tables. We made sure that if someone we wanted to invite didn't know anyone else attending the wedding, we gave them a plus one. Most people know at least one other person, so we didn't have to add more than a couple "random" plus ones!

We haven't done our seating yet, but we'll be doing assigned tables. People will generally be sitting with those they know. For groups which are smaller than 10 (our table size), they'll get joined with another group(s)! But *hopefully* people won't be sitting too much during the reception! We want everyone up and dancing!

I'm struggling with seating as well. I've been trying to seat people with people they know but I always end up with a few stragglers that I don't know what to do with. At that point I just put them with people who I think they will get along with.

I'm letting them choose where they sit. I would rather not have to keep track of who's not getting along with who at the time lol

We had one long table (less than 40 guests). We did not do a seating chart, we did assigned seats. Almost everyone knew each other, so that was not a worry.

I want them by the people they know so it’s less awkward. I’m sure they’ll all mingle after eating, but I want them all to be comfortable.