Seating Arrangement-OK to Separate Families?

MaineIslandBride

I am having 3 long tables at my reception. One table will be my family, one friends and one fiance's famy. However, friend table is not full and fiance's family table is over fully. So....do we put some of his family at friend's table OR do we just take some of the younger of his family (teenagers young adults) and mix them in with friends?  I guess I am asking if its ok to separate families. SO if I have a family of 5, is it ok if we take the oldest kid who is 22 and put her at the friend table with younger people and leave her parents and younger siblings at the "family" table

Leah&Christian09

I wouldn't have an issue with separating teenagers from their parents, as long as they were with other teens they'd know.  If I were 17, I'd probably have a lot more fun at a table with my other teenaged cousins and someones 20-something friends than I would with my parents.  Don't separate couples or people from their dates, and make sure everyone is around people they know, and you'll be fine.

krissydawn16

I've been to a couple of weddings in FI's family where his parents sat at one table and we were sat at a "kid" table.  But we were grateful.  We got to sit with our friends, not his parents friends.

faith194

For the most part, we had all of dh's nieces and nephews at one table, his siblings and spouses(with ils) at another table. We also did this with my cousins and their parents. It worked out wonderfully. The parents were happy to have some time with just adults(for a short time at least), and the kids(ages ranged from 8-21) loved sitting with their cousins.I'd do it, but I also asked the parents before I finished the seating chart.