How do I arrange my seating plan for my wedding with divorced parents?
HELP!!! both my fiance and I have divorced parents who have since remarried. How would you suggest that I arrange my main table. I have 2 best men and 2 brides maids to think of as well. Also do the flower girl and page boy sit at the main table If so…then there is them to consider as well. 
I think flower girl and page boy should sit with their parents.
I think mom and stepdad need their own table, where they act as hosts to their family members and/or friends. I think dad and stepmom need their own table, where they act as hosts to their family members and/or friends.
My advice? Have a small head table . . . bride, groom, best men with their dates or wives, bridesmaids with their dates or husbands.
Parents and their spouses? Each couple gets their own separate table, acting as hosts to their own family members and/or friends.
No sense in trying to seat all those parents together, especially if some of them are not amicable. I vote for seating each couple separately, allowing them to act as hosts at their own table.
April 13th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Well the parents usually don’t sit at the head table (that’s just you and the wedding party). There is usually a parent’s table (or two) for the parents of the bride and groom. If everyone gets along well you could have all the parents and spouses at one table which would be a perfect table of eight. If there is some tension between the divorcees/new spouses maybe have two parents tables and have your and his fathers with the spouses and then each of your mothers with spouses at separate tables, (and then some other guests, aunts/uncles, grandparents for example) to round out tables of 8 or 10 or however you are having it.
If the children in the bridal party belong to bridesmaids/groomsmen then you could have them at the head table, but flower girl/ring barer usually just sit with there parents at their table during the dinner reception. Then you don’t have to worry about them making a fuss/being messy in front of the entire wedding while sitting at the head table.
Good Luck!
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April 13th, 2010 at 5:18 am
I completely agree with Rachel. I was going to write pretty much the same thing.
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April 13th, 2010 at 5:38 am
I think flower girl and page boy should sit with their parents.
I think mom and stepdad need their own table, where they act as hosts to their family members and/or friends. I think dad and stepmom need their own table, where they act as hosts to their family members and/or friends.
My advice? Have a small head table . . . bride, groom, best men with their dates or wives, bridesmaids with their dates or husbands.
Parents and their spouses? Each couple gets their own separate table, acting as hosts to their own family members and/or friends.
No sense in trying to seat all those parents together, especially if some of them are not amicable. I vote for seating each couple separately, allowing them to act as hosts at their own table.
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April 13th, 2010 at 6:28 am
Well the wedding party typically sits with you. I would put all your parents and step parents at the same table, even though they are divorced. So your family at one table (parents and step parents) and his the same. We had special gifts at the head table for our flower girl and ring bare were so little we had them sit with their parents.
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April 13th, 2010 at 7:00 am
If you want them all on the top table:
Groom mum, Bride dad, page boy, bridesmaid, best man, groom, bride, best man, bridesmaid, Flower girl, Bride mum, Groom dad
Hope that helps, but you don’t have to have them all at the top table – only bride, groom, bridesmaids and best men have to be.
Enjoy your wedding!!!
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