Reception Seating

cherylanddan0706

Stupid question...We have our seating done but need to just put it together with the sides of the room, is there any protocol on brides/grooms side for the reception seating?Call me an idiot if you like, I need it sometimes

samor

The way I did it... I put my side on the bride side, DH's side on his side.  Bride side was all odd numbered, groom side was even numbered. I know some people don't go by any rules and mix tables up.  It's really up to you! As a guest, I attended this one wedding where the B&G mixed up each individual table and it wasn't that fun personally.  Everyone eventually ended up sitting at other tables after dinner was served. You are not an idiot!

jaimelody

I think you're supposed to keep the grooms fam on one side and the brides on the other. My family is wacky so I plan on mixing everyone all together! Not at the individual tables, but mixing family tables around the room.

cherylanddan0706

I was going to do that Sam!  I wasn't sure if there was protocol though.  I really didn't want to set it up and have pissed off guests lol.

samor

I think mixing entire tables will be fine (i.e. table 3 with all of the groom's cousins... next to table 5 with bride's college friends).  The example I mentioned in my pp was the b&g put my table with 5 people I knew (bride's friends), then the other 5 were total strangers (groom's friends).  I know they did this on purpose (bride told me) b/c they wanted both sides to mingle.  Eh... it could have also been that the B&G went to schools that were super rivals and on the day of the wedding, there was a big game... too much trash talking I guess, haha!

kle0113

Ditto Sam and you are not an idiot!

cherylanddan0706

LOL Sam thats funny rivals :)I am not mixing tables, we were lucky to not have to, I would have liked to mix the wp tables but theres an issue with one of the GM's FI's and I really can't put her with anyone that doesnt know her because a fight would probably break out :)My group will drink more than Dan's group so it works out good they will be on the bar side

samor

You know your guests best, so if you want to make an exception for certain tables, then do it!I was kind of anal about seating.  Obviously I put VIP's closer to us.  I did not seat the WP together, I placed them at tables with people they were closer too (it's funny b/c when DH and I walked around during our CH to greet out guests, people were basically sitting at tables the way we had grouped them together for the reception). I put the people I knew who were going to dance at tables right on the dance floor.  I put the drinkers closer to the bars (and they stayed at their table all night, haha!).  I put the older folks away from the DJ, so they wouldn't be near the noise.

cherylanddan0706

Thanks Sam I really appreiate it, I can't wait to just hand in my seating chart and final count on Tuesday and get away from this craziness!

jamilynn9

I did odd numbers for bride's side and even for the groom's side on different sides of the room.  I kind of panicked about it too, but then found out people do it different ways.

melissamchiu

Ditto pp - we did my tables on one side, his on the other.  And we only picked which side b/c we wanted to seat his mom (a reverend) away from the poker table.  LOL.    But I think people do what fits their guest list best...no right or wrong here.