Newlyweds, can you help me out with seating arrangements?
alina
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Newlyweds, can you help me out with seating arrangements?
How am I supposed to group people? Who shall sit at the same table as my parents? And where do I place my young 20s cousins who don't know any of our friends - with friends or their parents? And where do you place parent's friends, who don't know anyone but the parents?
This is harder than I expected. And I am only doing preliminary seating based on potential guest list.
Niecey
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Re: Newlyweds, can you help me out with seating arrangements?
Honestly, I wouldn't go too crazy until you start getting reponses back - it changes like crazy. you'd be surprised. I was.
I put bridal party together with dates. I put parents, grandparents and closest family together. I put some younger cousins with family and some with friends and/or younger family mamebers - it really depended on how close the family is and where I thought they would enjoy themselves more. I had about three tables of parent friends. I kind of kept all of those tables near each other.
I put louder friends tables together and then older family/friend tables together the best I could with the seating chart the hall gave me.
applesfla
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I wouldn't stress about it too much yet. Wait until you start getting responses...what if your two 20 year old cousins don't even come. It just changes so much it's not really worth it until you know who is and isn't comming, but here's what we did...My parents and DH parents sat with their friends and familiy sat with family. We had a table of my BM's and dates with a few additional friends and DH had his groomsmen with their dates and some additional friends. But if my one uncle and his two sons would have come it would have all changed.
janatlantica
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Also, people who don't know eachother, but have something in common can also make a hit! At my wedding I sat engaged couples with other engaged couples they did not know and they all got along great and even exchanged #s. Also I sat my two court officer friend with a sheriff's department candidate and they too, made friends and kept in touch!
Teri
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I agree - don't do much until you start receiving responses. Once I heard back from everyone, I grouped everyone logically, regardless of #. I was surprised that some worked out automatically. My hall had tables of 10 and 12, and many groups just ended up to be 10 or 11, which worked out.
I just made sure everyone at the table knew each other, or had some type of connection. There was only 1 table which was a bunch of oddballs! I felt bad, but we had no choice - there was a mix of DH's relatives and my friends, and I actually found out afterwards that everyone got along well.
Re: Newlyweds, can you help me out with seating arrangements?
I'll reiterate not to stress...but here is what I did:
Who shall sit at the same table as my parents?
I sat my parents and their siblings together (no grandparents left )
I sat MIL with her sister and fam, her husbands brother, and her son and fam.
my sister went with our close first cousins
And where do I place my young 20s cousins who don't know any of our friends - with friends or their parents?
I put cousins at one table and friends at another
And where do you place parent's friends, who don't know anyone but the parents?
with friends of the family, although my BMs parents knew someone my mom worked with...so I put them together.
***on a side note....I had a couple who knew ONLY ME...I worked with them years ago and didn't expect them to come, b/c they didn't know anyone...so I sat them at my firends table and told my BM to talk to them...it all works out...
natasha
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I would follow the advise given above. You should also have a family member help you with it, and it would be a much easier task.
