Bridal Party Table

Wow, that's a big bridal party! Awesome! My FH and I want the same thing. I get why people have them, but I'd feel like we're on display and that no one can talk to us. For your situation, the only two ways I can think of are one long table with all 16 of you, or break it up into two tables of 8, chosen by processional order. Good luck to you guys!

You can look into a king's table instead of a head table, where your bridal party sits on both sides instead of everyone facing one side.

Hi Cheyenne!

If you want to have all 16 of you sitting together, how about having a long top table, with you and the groom in the middle, and 7 and 7 each side of you? You could all sit on one side of the table, facing the rest of the guests. I grabbed the below pic off Pinterest.

If you feel this table would be too long, you could make it into a U-shape!

Do you think this is something that would work for you and your bridal party?

Does the 14 people include the bridal party’s dates and significant others? We wanted to do a full head table but after adding their dates/spouses and some even have children, it was just too many people. I’ve been at a wedding with someone who was in the wedding party and couldn’t sit with them at dinner and it wasn’t very fun and I felt pretty awkward. Just something to think about!

View Quoted Comment This is the reason we're doing a sweetheart. We got concerns from the wife of a groomsmen that she was worried she'd be sitting alone if we did a traditional head table, so we definitely knew a sweetheart was right for us so dates can sit together with wedding party! Keep in mind, you may be "by yourselves" some of the time but typically the bride and groom are usually up and mingling during dinner and then the dancing happens. So you may only be sitting by yourselves for speeches so its not that much.

View Quoted Comment I wanted to do the same thing. However I really don’t like my one BM boyfriend & couldn’t make us sit with him - so we decided to do a sweetheart table. My hope is that I will be able to adjust the table arrangement to have a table somewhat close to us that we can talk to, but either way I don’t expect we will be sitting for too long.

I would do a kings table, BUT keep in mind that your friends will want to sit with their spouses and children.

I agree that with spouses, that's going to be tough. We had a sweetheart table and it was wonderful. We weren't there hardly at all....like....I think I sat there for maybe 10 minutes all night. And I didn't feel like anyone was staring at me and I didn't want to sit there any longer because there were so many people I wanted to go see! I just think it's so much easier to sit the bridal party with who they're comfortable with and give yourself the ease of moving around as you desire.

View Quoted Comment Yes this includes significant others

It’s a very crude drawing (I am NOT an artist) but would something like this work?

View Quoted Comment Awe I like this! I never thought of having each other

Forgive the out of scale drawing, but this is my plan. A round table with two offset rectangular ones.

Does your venue offer a V shaped table? That's what we are doing for our 10 member wedding party

View Quoted Comment Oh my goodness I do love that drawing! That idea is amazing! This is why I love these forums! It’s like I can pick hundreds of peoples brains for ideas!!

View Quoted Comment My parents are set up on 7 acres of mountain forest so we are building our own venue. So that’s why I do have a bit of room to play around with my ideas 🥰

I would recommend a King’s Table! That’s what I’m doing, and my bridal party has 14 people. My friend just had one that spanned almost the full length of the reception space because she included the families of the bridal party too, but it was really cool! She had about 40 people at her King’s Table because they included all the families. They had 24 people in the bridal party alone, though (not including the flower girls/ring bearers).

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This is what we are doing! 5 BM and 5 GM plus all their plus ones!

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This is pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Even though FH and I will be "by ourselves" at the sweetheart table, we'll only be there for as long as it takes to eat some dinner. The rest of the time we'll be mingling, visiting with our guests, and hopefully dancing our butts off!! So the actual time we spend alone at the sweetheart table will be short--only a fraction of the total reception time.

We are having our party table, a party of 12 and then some of the plus ones will be sitting close, and with our family members so they know people. Its upsetting to think people NEED to be by their significant others....does nobody do small talk these days?

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I LOVE your drawing!!! This is exactly what we are doing as well!! It's called a King's table. FH and myself will sit next to each other on one side of the table and our BP will be on the same side of the table as us and their SO/Guest on the opposite side directly across from them. We will have a separate table for the kids of the wedding party.

Our room is almost shaped like a "T" so we will have the one LONG King's table in the middle with rounds of guest tables around the sides.