Seating divorced parents and dates during ceremony?

barbiegirl25

how do we seat FI's mom, his two close aunts (one single (his godmother) and one married with 2 kids, one of whom is a flower girl), his dad and his dad's new girlfriend? All feel like they belong in the front row, but we have 5 seats and the girlfriend element complicates things, and is it strange to seat Aunt A without her husband and kids? FMIL is uncomfortable with dad's gf. There's also a grandfather in the mix.

barbiegirl25

The aunts have been extremely involved in FI's life and are very close to FMIL.

barbiegirl25

There's not enough room... There are 5 seats and that's 6 people with mom, aunts, husband and 2 kids. We are also concerned about grandpa and the fact that the husband and kids are of course beloved family but should they really get the front row over other family members and father of groom?

mob2689

Try this link: http://ezinearticles.com/?Wedding-Seating-for-Divorced-Parents&id=5645533

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

My dad and his GF sat in the second row, along with my aunt, cousin, and my cousin's son.

Karen's MOH

I would do it mostly as Mrs. Jesse suggested. since there isn't enough room, I would still keep the flower girl in the front, since it will be easiest for her to sit that way. So either, FMIL, the aunt/mother of flowergirl, her husband and 2 kids in the front, single aunt in second row with FFIL and girlfriend, OR split up that family, so say, aunt and flower girl are in front row and husband and other kid are in second row.

Either way, I think mom usually goes in the front row, dad in second, in these cases, whether or not there is an extra seat there anyway. That's what I tried to do, but the church ladies screwed it up and ended up seating the divorced in laws next to each other anyway.