The Known Reception Seating Plan

• Don’t seat battling relatives together.

 

 

• So that everyone has a good time, seat teens together, aunts and uncles together, etc. Try seating groups either by their relationship to you or by their ages.

 

 

• As for the head table, the rule has changed so often that there isn’t one anymore.

 

 

• You and your better half can sit at a raised table with your wedding party below you.

 

 

• You can have your own table with a table on either side of you with your wedding party.

 

 

• You and your husband in the middle of a long table with men on one side and women on the other, or boy, girl, boy, girl.

 

 

• Parents and grandparents at the table or not, it’s up to you.

 

 

• Stick to table numbers. Famous couples, places you’ve been, etc., are hard to see from across the room. We’ve heard many complaints by guests at weddings, when they have to search for their tables.

 

 

• Reserved tables are all you need. Why put yourself through the extra work of having a reserved chair for each guest? It just gives people something else to complain about.

 

 

• It’s a good idea to have a "Reserved" card at the parents seats. They are the only ones that need preferred seating.