Sweetheart table- how to arrange bridal party

We’re working our bridal party into the tables with the rest of the guests. Our immediate family will be at the closest tables.

Our bridal party will be the tables directly on either side of us, with their plus ones and kids. If there’s room, we are going to add our parents to those tables as well. I think it’s a bit rude to sit your bridal party in the back. They’ve been asked to be by your side and spend money on their dresses/tuxes/suits, etc, and then their seated in the back? I would take that as a slap to the face if I were in your bridal party. I feel like it’s more respectful to them to either mix them in with the other guests so they can sit with their families, or work your family into the bridal parties table.

We’ll have a sweetheart table too and plan to mix the bridal party in with the other guests. We’ll be seating people in groups, so for example my best friend who is one of my MOHs will sit with my other friends (who she knows) and her boyfriend, and my cousin who is my other MOH will sit with her boyfriend, aunts, uncles, and other cousins. The same with FH’s BM and GM, they’ll sit with FH’s friends. I thought that would be better than a WP table since they don’t know each other and may not even meet until the day before the wedding.

We had a sweetheart table and we didn’t have dedicated bridal party tables, we mixed them in with what guests they knew best.

You can have them at their own table or mixed in with guests that's what I did

Our bridal party table will be on the side of us. Ladies on one side, guys on the other. Our parents table will be the closet up front.

Our bridal party will be right behind immediate family dispersed with their SO's/spouses/friends they know among the tables of our extended family as well. I wouldn't go so far as putting them in the very back. We have the miscellaneous military friends of my FH in the back.