I posted a while back about going to a wedding sans H. The gist is that I have bad social anxiety and I wasn't going to know for sure who would be there that I could sit with and such and I do not do well at playing those things by ear.
So I talked to my mom about it (bride is a family friend, we're close with the MOB, and many invitees are more my mom's friends than mine) and she mentioned it to several of her friends that were going as well. They promised to take care of me. As we were leaving the church several told me they'd make sure I had a place to sit with them.
I got to the reception before the majority of them, but one of my mom's friends and her husband were already there and he flagged me down to tell me they'd saved me a seat. We were joined not too long after by their daughter and her husband, as well as another friend of my mom's, her husband, and daughter. The 3 of us girls are all 30-35, so it was nice that we could sit together, and while we're not close by any means anymore, we've all known each other since we were just babies.
While I was sitting with them, another of my mom's friends came by the table to let me know where they were in case I wanted to sit with them. By the time I got over there, their table was full, but at least I knew I had a seat.
I ended up having a pretty good time, though there were some things that made me cringe - like the cash bar and the 5 million spotlight dances, including a dollar dance that the dj actually called "the money dance" - only like 15 people out of the 250 there participated.