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Round Tables or Long Tables

We are having a small wedding with approximately 50 people. Our reception will be outside under a tent and is very laid back family style. I'm really liking the idea of long tables, just curious as to what everyone else did or likes. Not a 100% sure what I want to do.
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Re: Round Tables or Long Tables

  • I like round tables, I think it's easier to talk to people.
  • edited October 2012
    Im using long tables myself...Im having like 100 people, I think long tables kind of save room but if its outside it just depends on what you want and how you are setting everything up
  • I don't like long tables. Feels like the cafeteria at high school. Round tables are easier for conversation and more elegant.
  • I'm always hearing that it's easier to talk with round tables. I guess the centerpiece design I'm wanting goes with the long tables but I want our guests to be comfortable and enjoy. I guess with just a small wedding it would segregate the groups more than encourage taking
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  • Thanks for the feedback ladies. Just curious as to how many actually had or will be having a sweetheart table? Do you feel like it limits your interaction with the guests?
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  • I find it easier to talk at long tables than at round tables.  Here's why:

    A 60" round table seats 8 or 10 people.  60" is 5 feet, which mean that to talk to the four people across the table you have to raise your voice.  Add a centerpiece and it's even more difficult.  On the other hand, the table has a certain comradery--the people at the table are at a little party within the bigger party.

    A banquet table is about 3 feet across and can be placed end to end to seat as many people as needed.  Someone has to sit at the end, of course, and that person will feel a little more isolated.  (I already know at least one of those people will be at the reception, and who I will sit next to them.)  But the people across the table are closer, and the conversation can flow more easily across as well as side to side. I think long tables are a little more social, all in all.

    We're having two long tables.

    The advantage of a sweetheart table is that you will get a few moments alone with your new husband and might actually get to eat something. 
  • I love this and it is what I was thinking. I totally get what you're saying and my thought process was along that as well. Thanks for the input! I guess if that's what I really want it'll work and that makes me excited :
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  • We did both rounds and varying lengths of long tables. It worked out so well because we had more flexibility in terms of seating charts (both where guests sit, and the layout of the room itself). It's just as easy to talk to a group in a long table, I think.

    I don't think long tables look like a cafeteria as long as you arrange them correctly. 

    Here's a pic of ours, if that gives you an idea...

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