Wedding Help Thursday

mgoss228 · March 2011

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mgoss228 · March 2011

This is a Seating Question:

I'm starting to do a "rough" draft for our seating chart, because I have a better idea of who will be attending now.

I'm keeping the BP together, and families together.

What should I do with single friends? Should I do a "Singles" table, or mix couples with singles. Most of our friends are "paired off" already, but I don't know if our single friends would want to sit at a table with all couples.

I've never really been single as an adult (started dating FI when I was 19, almost 7 years ago!), so I don't know how I would feel being single at mid-20s to early 30s (the age of our friends).

Our friends are all acquainted from college, while some are closer than others, they all know eachother (and no bad blood). I was thinking of having only 2 couples to a table for our "Friends tables" and then mixing in singles and other couples depending on the final RSVP count.

How are you seating your single friends (assuming there is no +1)? What would you want done if you were single?

dreamwinds · March 2011

I'd mix couples and single friends in the tables, but don't have two single people with like 2 pairs of couples (if you're doing tables of 8) for example. Especially if they're all friends with each other. Maybe it's just me, but if I were single and put at a table full of single people, I'd feel singled out (no pun intended), but if I were at a table with people who were friends of mine, whether they're couples or not, I'd feel more comfortable.

mgoss228 · March 2011

dreamwinds:
Our tables will be 7's and 8's, so it might be unavoidable for 2 or 3 of the tables to be 3 couples and 2 singles:

Would it be better to have:
2 singles of the same gender
OR
2 singles- one male, one female

Some of the singles are already flirty with each other... but is it b*tchy to play "matchmaker?"

OMG, I'm putting too much thought into this!

erinmmcd · March 2011

I would just put the singles together that are going to have the most fun. So if that means a girl/guy or same gender, just do that. I wouldn't try to play matchmaker - it might be super obvious if there are 3 couples and 1 single guy and 1 single girl. So I would pair off closest friends first, then if you have leftover singles, you can put them wherever since there is no better alternative.

Sharingourlove · March 2011

The help I need is to get my FI to realize that 135 days may seem like a lot of time, but in reality it isn't! I made a "still to do" list which he was okay with, but now I guess I need to make it in a timeline form.

Anyone have any tips on how to get him to think sooner rather than later?

erinmmcd · March 2011

I pulled up the knot's checklist on my phone and showed him how long it took to scroll through the list....he was speechless.

mgoss228 · March 2011

sharingourlove: Setting a Timeline for everything and showing the ginormous TK's checklist is a great start. 135 days is short, imo to conquer ALL of the aspects/details of the wedding. It's freaking stressful. I have had to talk to FI over and over again to tell him that I need xyz done by month/day or I will go Bridezilla on his @$$. I'm at 51 days and I'm still freaking out with all the details. Time goes by so fast once Winter ends. Best of luck to ya!

meganhardan · March 2011

I've used the knot checklist, but I've also made a spread sheet with a tab for each month and then all the "to do's" listed. Once FI saw it, I think he realized why I am a little stressed

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