Help! Seating arrangements!

[mariaandmanish]

I knew that seating arrangements were going to be difficult, but it just seems to be getting harder and harder!

[LaceyinPgh]

Hahahahaha!!!! Seating arraingments are hell. But you are teacher, so you had better learn to proper displace your problem children in the classroom to lessen the tension and get the maximum amount of work done, right?

There are two rules of thought, sit all of your problem people at one table and let nature take it's course. It is a great way to prove survival of the fittest.

But, if the Nature Channel approach isn't you, do this. Set the friends with the girlfriend conflict at opposite ends of the room with their spouses. At those tables, also put the litigating uncles. Fill in those two tables with stragglers, family members no one else wants to sit with, and selected friends of you and your fh. Trust me, after you make up the rest of your seating chart, you will have enough left over people that you don't know what to do with to tuck into those places.

[mariaandmanish]

Thanks, Lacey! I have already done everyone else, but maybe I will just start all over! And believe me, I know all about problem children, so this should be easy, right?! Ah well... nothing's easy, right?

[LaceyinPgh]

Thanks, Lacey! I have already done everyone else, but maybe I will just start all over! And believe me, I know all about problem children, so this should be easy, right?! Ah well... nothing's easy, right?
The fact of the matter is that they are all going to be sitting there long enough to make akward small talk at dinner. After that people are up and moving around. So at most, they have to deal with the situation for an hour.

[cowboysbride]

The fact of the matter is that they are all going to be sitting there long enough to make akward small talk at dinner. After that people are up and moving around. So at most, they have to deal with the situation for an hour.

That and the best way to get someone to SHUTUP is to put food in front of them...Lacey is a wiz at this kind of thing, I just wanted to add in my 2 cents worth!:p

These people are at YOUR wedding and I'd put them wherever I wanted to, you follow Lacey's advice and do your best and after that LET IT GO, I have pulled my hair out with final details and in the end it didn't matter to a hill of beans, Best of luck Hon!

Oh, If I have forgotten to say WELCOME............WELCOME:bbmrgreen: !

[brewsells]

This is the EXACT reason I am not doing a seating chart. If you don't like so and so, don't sit by them. I hope you find a solution to your seating problem.. I think what Lacey suggested would work great..

[AngelinLove]

I really have no words of wisdom to offer here...because I don't have a clue either. I just wanted to say that I fully understand why this is so difficult. It is really ridiculous though, that we as brides have to worry about whether a bunch of grown adults can get along!!!! Good Luck!!!!

[cowboysbride]

This is the EXACT reason I am not doing a seating chart. If you don't like so and so, don't sit by them. I hope you find a solution to your seating problem.. I think what Lacey suggested would work great..

EXACTLY! That's why I didn't do that! The immediate family and the wedding party will sit "together" and that's it!

[AngelinLove]

I don't have an option...the venue requires a seating chart!!!

[Kacie_bride]

I agree with Holly, this is why I am not doing a seating chart. I don't see why everyone just can't sit where they want to. They can always move anyway. I guess maybe it makes it easier on the wait staff to know what food goes where. I guess this is one of the benefits of a buffet!

[Kacie_bride]

I don't have an option...the venue requires a seating chart!!!

I've seen times where brides really spent a lot of time on seating charts and then people still sat where they wanted to anyway.

[brewsells]

I've seen times where brides really spent a lot of time on seating charts and then people still sat where they wanted to anyway.
I have seen that too. Why is it that venues require a chart? is it for serving food? Couldn't people have name card that had like a colored ribbon on them that tell the wait staff what they are eating? and the people could just pick up their cards when they come in? I guess I don't really know much about that stuff since my reception is at a bar...

[Kacie_bride]

I have seen that too. Why is it that venues require a chart? is it for serving food? Couldn't people have name card that had like a colored ribbon on them that tell the wait staff what they are eating? and the people could just pick up their cards when they come in? I guess I don't really know much about that stuff since my reception is at a bar...

I don't know. We are having a buffet and it does not matter where anyone sits!

[mariaandmanish]

You're all absolutely right! My venue does require a seating chart, but I think that worrying about it is kind of useless because I am having a buffet, so who's going to sit at their assigned tables anyway? I think that I am going to just sit everyone at a table, and not worry too much about it... if people don't like it, then they can sit wherever they want and who really cares! Thanks, so much for all of your advice, though. I am definitely feeling better about it. And thanks for the welcome, too!

[Kacie_bride]

You're all absolutely right! My venue does require a seating chart, but I think that worrying about it is kind of useless because I am having a buffet, so who's going to sit at their assigned tables anyway? I think that I am going to just sit everyone at a table, and not worry too much about it... if people don't like it, then they can sit wherever they want and who really cares! Thanks, so much for all of your advice, though. I am definitely feeling better about it. And thanks for the welcome, too!

Oh defiantely! Just make one and then let them do whatever they want! One less thing for you to worry about honey!