Many weddings today only have one set of seating that’s designated for the wedding party, and that’s it. However, these are complicated days, and thus there are more occasions than ever to decide to have planned seating for your guests. Without planned seating on these occasions, you might be setting your wedding up for drama you don’t want to deal with.
For instance, if either the bride or groom has two sets of parents, it might not be the smartest idea to leave it to chance as to where they may end up sitting. Unless the parties have an amicable relationship, which does happen, one or the other isn’t going to be happy to have to share more time than they need to with the other party. If you’re the bride, you’re already dealing with the issue of having your real father bringing you up the aisle while your mother is sitting in the front row with another man. Making sure you keep potentially warring family members apart from each other is usually a good idea.
Since the couple is the one that’s invited the guests, they also know who’s supposed to be coming. Though they often don’t want to acknowledge it, they know which of their friends or colleagues don’t really get along. Once again, having assigned seating will alleviate this potential discomfort for everyone involved.
Of course, having assigned seating doesn’t have to always be for negative purposes. One way of setting things up is if you’re having a catered reception, and people had the opportunity to select what they wanted to eat beforehand. In this case, you might try arranging seating by what people ordered. Sure, you’ll have to shake it up some if the invited couple have each chosen something different, which happens often, but if you can put as many people together as possible who have ordered the same thing, it makes it easy on wait staff to make sure everyone got exactly what they were supposed to get.
And then there’s the possibility of putting together interesting groups of people who might not know each other just to stimulate conversation. This is something that high society party people do whenever they host dinner parties. Even if people are sharing the same table, great care will be taken to match up people based on different backgrounds and ideas, hoping that they’ll bring a spark to the party, while hoping that spark doesn’t turn into an explosion.
Assigned seating has one more benefit, that being its possible elimination of a table with only one or two people sitting at it. That always looks strange at a wedding, but some people, every once in awhile, have to be forced into being sociable.
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