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Danielle
Frequent user July 2022 Manitoba

Head table seating.

Danielle, on September 19, 2019 at 10:05 Posted in Wedding reception 0 7
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Don't mind me. Planning early again.

Between now and our wedding, there will (hopefully) be at least 3 new children around.

One will be ours, another will be the maid of honor and best man's, and the last will be of a bridesmaid and groomsman (best man's brother).

Hopefully between those three we will have at least one of each gender lol because as it is the youngest kid in our lives is FH's nephew and he's 5 now so in 4 years he'll be a little old to be a ring bearer and I really want to have the whole ring bearer and flower girl thing.

In addition, mostly by coincidence our entire wedding party will be made up of couples (it got to the point where we each picked our sides and he was like "J, T (J's brother), and B" and I was like "S (J), E (T), and P" and then I asked if he would mind taking P's boyfriend and I'll take B's girlfriend just because we were so close and thought it would be funny).

Anyway. That's our situation. Since we're pretty much all friends with everybody (we have so many of the same friends that I'm just as much friends with T as he is E, for example) and the whole wedding party knows each other, I'm torn between asking them to sit on the "appropriate" side or letting them sit with their partners (us in the middle with 2 couples on each side).

I also don't know what to do with the kids. I would like ours to sit with us because I don't really want to deal with the grandparents whining because we put him or her at the other family's table (or because they didn't want to deal with the kid during dinner). So I was thinking of letting the other kid in the wedding party sit with his or her parents.

But I'm a stickler for symmetry. So how would you set that up?

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Latest activity by Danielle, on September 19, 2019 at 15:45
  • Danielle
    Frequent user July 2022 Manitoba
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    I mean I guess I could put the kids with their grandparents/cousins (the paternal grandparents of the other kids will be in attendance, as will our child's 3 older cousins) but I really think I prefer the idea of them sitting with us as they're part of the wedding party too. If they weren't part of the wedding party I would 100% just put them with family and be done with it.
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  • Casey
    Master October 2019 Ontario
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    We have all couples in our wedding party, and they all have kids (Except for 1 couple). We had sat all the kids at one table. The kids range in age from 2 - 13 so the older kids do a very good job of watching their siblings or cousins. The younger kids would rather sit with their older siblings or cousins instead of the parents, so for us this worked better

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  • Allison
    Master October 2019 Ontario
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    I keep forgetting you are planning 4 years in advance!

    I would try and not worry about it too much until the kids are 100% in the picture since you have time anyhow.

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  • Danielle
    Frequent user July 2022 Manitoba
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    That's good! Thanks! We'll see how many of the kids actually happen - BM and MOH are for sure talking next year, as are FH and I, but we're not 100% sure about the other couple, and I'm not 100% sure we'd use all 3 kids. Ours for sure but we might just pick one of the two depending on the situation.

    I really hope FH and I have a girl because I totally want to see her all dressed up as a flower girl Smiley smile
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  • Allison
    Master October 2019 Ontario
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    We don't have any couples in the wedding party (maybe if we were getting married next year - we might have chosen a little differently). However, I don't see an issue of having 2 couples on either side - either way it'll be symmetrical and your wedding party would probably appreciate the sentiment!

    As for kids, you could have them all at the head table with you (our flower girl is sitting up at ours). I know you are looking for symmetry, so yours could sit in between you, right in the middle, and the other 2 can sit with their parents (just make sure both couples with kids aren't on the same "side" of you).

    Picture for reference:Head table seating. 1

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  • Sabrina
    Beginner November 2021 Ontario
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    If you wanted you could always alternate at the head table! Bridesmaid, groomsmen, maid of honour, groom, bride, best man, bridesmaid, groomsmen! You could even make your head table a u-shape so that way everyone has an easier time talking with each other.

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  • Tori
    Top October 2019 Manitoba
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    I have 2 couples in my wedding party and they won't be sitting together at the reception. Supper only lasts like at most an hour so they can go that long without being right next to each other. Besides, whenever we all go out to supper we don't sit next to our S/O's anyway - we see them at home all the time so we sit next to all the friends Smiley smile

    As for the kids - I would put them with your parents/ technically their grandparents. Of all days this is the one that they get to put up with the kids as it's your day!! (If they complain and are just not as accommodating and understanding as they should be then I would say you could always hire somebody to sit with them at a kids table?)

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