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Bridal Table Help!!

Hi! We don't want a sweetheart table, we prefer to sit with our bridal party. Our party is small, 8 total including my MOH and the BM. Two on each side have a significant others. Should we sit them at our table as well?

Re: Bridal Table Help!!

  • Yes. Sit significant others with their dates.
  • jennother said:
    Hi! We don't want a sweetheart table, we prefer to sit with our bridal party. Our party is small, 8 total including my MOH and the BM. Two on each side have a significant others. Should we sit them at our table as well?

    Yes, you need to seat your wedding party members with their dates.



  • Ditto.   They need to be seated with their SOs.   
  • I answered you on Reception Ideas. Be sure to put "XP" for "Cross Post" in your discussion title next time you post so people know. 
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  • At my brother's wedding they had a "head table" with the whole bridal party, and our SO's had to sit at a different table, and it was TERRIBLE, from my perspective. First, the head table was sitting in a big line, so you could really only talk to the people on either side of you, which were other brides maids and not my friends/family. Second, my boyfriend was stuck at a table with a bunch of total strangers (a couple of my brother's friends and other SO's of the bridal party). If they had done a reasonable seating chart, it would have been fun, but it was just terrible as it was. Ugh.

    So yes, please seat people with their SO's!
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    MandyMost said:
    At my brother's wedding they had a "head table" with the whole bridal party, and our SO's had to sit at a different table, and it was TERRIBLE, from my perspective. First, the head table was sitting in a big line, so you could really only talk to the people on either side of you, which were other brides maids and not my friends/family. Second, my boyfriend was stuck at a table with a bunch of total strangers (a couple of my brother's friends and other SO's of the bridal party). If they had done a reasonable seating chart, it would have been fun, but it was just terrible as it was. Ugh.

    So yes, please seat people with their SO's!

    This.

    The only time I've kind of made an "eh, whatever" exception is when DH is Best Man and I'm a bridesmaid. Obviously, it's traditional for the bride and groom to sit next to the best man and maid of honor in some fashion. So it might happen where I'm not assigned the seat exactly next to DH.

  • MandyMost said:
    At my brother's wedding they had a "head table" with the whole bridal party, and our SO's had to sit at a different table, and it was TERRIBLE, from my perspective. First, the head table was sitting in a big line, so you could really only talk to the people on either side of you, which were other brides maids and not my friends/family. Second, my boyfriend was stuck at a table with a bunch of total strangers (a couple of my brother's friends and other SO's of the bridal party). If they had done a reasonable seating chart, it would have been fun, but it was just terrible as it was. Ugh.

    So yes, please seat people with their SO's!
    I was in a wedding where they had a head table and tables reserved for immediate family, and the rest of the reception was open seating.  The wedding party (with our SOs, since we were driving together) was last to arrive at the reception since we had to take pictures at the church, and by the time we arrived there was nowhere left for my and another bridesmaid's boyfriends to sit for dinner, because they had invited way more people than the venue could comfortably hold.  It was a mess, and the other bridesmaid and I took offense to it.  I realize (or at least hope!) that you'll have enough seating at your reception, but you should still seat people with their SOs.
  • Yep, everyone at one table. I actually had my MOH tell me to do a traditional head table because she didn't mind, but I knew it was rude and I made it work so the everyone and the SO will be sitting at the head table.

    If it a space thing (mine is) you don't have to sit everyone in one long line. I'm doing a double sided table, so it's just like a regular table. That way the BP can talk to more people as well.

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  • We had 5 bridesmaids and 5 groomsmen, all with SO's. We had a circular table in the middle for me and my husband and two long tables attached to the circular table on each side. The wedding party had their SO's seated next to or across from them. It was perfect.
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