Seating Debate

Family should be in front. If you are worried that the bridal party will be split up from their dates, you should reconsider having a head table and instead go for a sweetheart table

I think everybody does this differently. You should choose whatever layout works best/makes the most sense for you! We will be seating our wedding party’s significant others next to them at the same table. Parents & siblings will be seated close to us & the wedding party.

We had a sweetheart table and then the tables closest to us were our parents/grandparents, then close friends (i.e. bridal party members), then more distant family/friends (although distant is used loosely here since everyone we invited we were close to).

I sat in a table with our parties and their significant others. but our families were at a close by table

We are planning a sweetheart table for this exact reason! Don't want anyone to feel isolated or excluded.

I am have a sweetheart table. I have divorced parents to so I will have them on opposite sides of the sweetheart table. Then the bridal party is scattered throughout the tables so they can sit with the people they know best.

We did 2 head tables for our family and the our bridal party had their own table with dates. We had a sweetheart table for us.

We did a sweetheart table. Members of the bridal party should never be placed at different tables than their significant others/dates!

Traditionally, family is closest, but you don't have to do anything.

You could mix your immediate family members to only have 2 parent tables like if your parents are remarried or with someone you’d put your mom & her plus 1 with his mom & her plus one then your dad & his plus 1 with grooms dad & his plus 1. Then fill empty seats at those tables with siblings or elders