Divorced parents & reception seating

Wow, I'm glad somebody made a post about this because I am in the same situation so thank you everyone for all of your tips! I will definitely be seating my divorced parents at separate tables and filling them with their closest relatives and friends.

I read the host table online somewhere and thought yay a solution!

the divrorced family thing is hard and its like umm its one day please be nice!

its my mom thats the tricky one.....im like please just do it for me....

brutal! lol

good luck

Thanks Rachel, I think that's exactly what we will end up doing! My fiance's Parent's are divorced but get along very well and are very amicable so I think we can seat them together. My parents are the tricky ones!

Hey Cassie

We have this issue too!

My paretns are divoriced and my Dad is re-married but my mom isnt and my FH paretns are together.

We are picking the 3 closest table to the head table and letting them "hosto" their own table so close friends and family will sit with them. This way no one is upset about sitting with the grooms parents since it would be super awkward to seat my mom and dad together.

Good luck!

Hey Cassidi! Welcome to our group! There are actually different ways you could go about this. If you're still looking for ideas, you could also take a look at these discussions to see which style of head table would be best for your situation: Head table: With or without parents?

3 arrangement styles for your head table

Who will sit at your head table?

Do you like the idea of a sweetheart table?

I have my moms table and my dads table with their family and friends at it

Ok great, I think I will follow that exact same concept. Thank you so much!!!

My parents are divorced and re-married. They know how to get along for my sake but I have them at two different tables as it would be awkward if they were seated at the same table. At my mom's table it will be her, my step-dad, my Aunt Kelly, Uncle Chris and Cousin Kassidy, my Nanny, and my Aunt Gladys and Uncle Robert. At my dad's table it will be him, my step-mom, my Grandma Lois (dad's stepmom), my Grandma Diane (dad's mom) - his parents also divorced, my Aunt Beth and Uncle Damien, my Uncle Mike and my niece Aubrey!

Thank you very much for your input! The divorced parents thing certainly makes things a bit more complicated, doesn't it!

Hi Cassie. I am in a similar situation except not remarried parents. However I am seating my mom at the first front table and my dad at the opposite almost to the back table because we are setting our tables like horshoes except people on all sides of the tables. I am closer to my mom then my dad so thats why I am seating my mom closer to me. My family all gets a long decently except with people having conflict with my dad and my brother. The funny this is one of my uncles who married one of my mom's sister but they divorced a long time ago, gets a long great with my dad. I am mixing all my seating with groom's side and my side together because i see it at Weddings it's clears who's on the groom's side of the family and who is on the bride's side of the family when it's pick a seat not a side and litteraly they are picking a side lol. Anyways best of luck ❤