seating chart... did you do it by yourself?

or did you have your parents 'help' you?

my mother started making 'her' seating chart... so she shows me yesterday and i tell her 'no, i don't like it.. i'm putting this person here'

basically we have my brothers BEST friend coming from TX.. he's coming for the day... I want them at the same table, my mother said she wants to sit with my brother- well DUH.. the table holds 12.. i have to move the aunts and uncles to other tables to sit with their children...

she then tells me that 'THIS group right here can NOT be split up'.. I'm looking.. its my mothers cousin, friends from VA, one friend from CT, and other family friends... i'm like 'well i wanted to put this person with that person and this cousin with his mother'... she's like.. 'well couple A knows couple B, and couple B was in couple C's bridal party, but D only knows couple A, but I can't split A & B'

um... well they ALL know me, so should I sit them all at my table??

honestly... I'm about to totally MIX it up... 3 couples from MY side with 3 couples from FHs side... at every table... no family sharing a table..

I told my mother after the eparty that I am doing the seating chart.. and if she doesn't like it, too bad. these people sit at the table for dinner... besides that, they can roam around and sit at other tables to talk and whatnot.

she wants me to sit my cousins from upstate that don't know ANYONE but their parents... with my friends, who's table is already full...