My fiancé and I would prefer sitting at a round table to sitting at a sweetheart table or a king's table. This wouldn't be such a problem except for the fact that we also want our wedding party to sit with their significant others. In order to facilitate this, we would have to have fourteen people sitting around a ten person table.
Our question is this - is it ok if some of the wedding party and their SOs sit at other tables with people they know better? For example, my sister (also MOH) does know our friends because we lived across the country for years. We thought she and her plus one (she's not in a relationship, but we thought it would be best to give her a plus one) could sit with guests that she does know. Also, one of my BMs is a friend from our "new" city and so we thought she and her SO might be more comfortable at a table with other friends from our new city that they know.
If we did this, then two non-wedding party persons would sit at the so called "head" table with their groomsman SOs and the other four people in our wedding party are either married to one another or in a serious relationship with one another so they'll also be seated together.
We're VERY reluctant to do this because we don't want my sister or other BM to think that they mean any less. I would obviously explain to them why we're doing it this way…
Not sure what another good option would be… The consensus in our group of friends is that king's tables aren't great because they don't facilitate conversation. That, and, my fiancé really does not want to be "on display" during the dinner.