On your wedding day, who are you guys sitting your parents with?
I know this is going to be a contentious issue because my mother is going to want to be with her siblings, and my father will want to be with his. My immediate family is only four people (parents, brother & sister) so I am going to have to add people to that table and I have no idea what to do.
I was thinking of putting my immediate family w/ FH's - it is a joining of the families right?
What are you all doing?
GoingNutty
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I think I am putting my parents with their parents... but even still that is only like 5 at one table... my family is closer to my dads side so we'll probably just put them with my dads brothers... I haven't really thought about it much!!
CaCRmr
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We're putting our parents with their god parents and my great aunt/uncles. My sister (MOH) will be at the bridal party table
BriBri529
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We are most likely splitting the table
My parents, part my mom's immediate family, and part my dad's immediate family.
thiadora
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OK- I know that this probably won't help, but our parents are deciding who will sit at their tables.
I have read in some places that the brides and grooms families can sit together. If both sets of parents are agreeable, you could do that.
Do whatever is the least stressful for you. You might just want to step out of it and let your parents hash it out. They might be able to work out a compromise.
usuk2004
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Have you asked your parents where they would like to sit? ARe there friends that they're inviting that they might like to be with. We had a problem too because we had too few immediate family, but too many if we added another generation.
My dream would've been to have had both my parents and FH's parents sit with FH and I. I would've liked to have had dinner with my parents on my wedding day. But, DH's parents are divorced and don't get along.
Donna
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My parents are divorced so our seating went like this -
DH's parents with their siblings My mom with her SO, grandma and her first cousins and their spouses My dad with his SO, her mom, my uncle and his family (dad's brother) and my dad's best friend and his wife.
Your parents should just have who they are most comfortable with. If both sets can set together that would be nice too.
Nora101004
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Let your parents figure it out. Give them each 1/2 of the table.
tourist
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My mom says she doesn't want to sit with her sisters. Too much drama! My dad suggested FH's parents.
But I am thinking maybe their friends & dad's only brother, but it dependsif he brings his kids, and I probably have to put at least 1 sister with my mom, b/c she & her husband can't sit with my grandparents
dkwife
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My parents want to sit with their friends! and they are...
nylisa
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My parents are going to be sitting with my dad's family (since my mom does not really have any except for cousins and an aunt). They are sitting with my grandmother, aunts, uncle, cousins, sister, etc.
