...Ms. Joey will attempt a difficult task -- the seating arrangements.
At first Mr. Joey and I weren't going to do assigned seats. The lunch is a buffet, so it wasn't like servers needed to know who sat where. We changed our minds when we started looking at the guest list. It's a pretty random assortment of people from all phases of our lives together and apart.
We decided on assigned seats because A) we have 4 different size tables that sit anywhere between 4-10 people, and B) We have random people at the wedding who aren't going to know anyone.
We don't want a group of 6 to take the table for 8 and then a random couple has to sit there because there isn't room for both of them elsewhere. We also want people to mingle. We don't want my side of the family to sit on the right side of the dance floor and Mr. Joey's family sitting on the left. They don't necessarily have the sit together at tables, but maybe every other table could be my family or his.
The seating chart seemed doable. I got through 2 of the big tables painlessly and then I got stuck. Who's sits with whom? What about the random single person at the table? I don't want a singles table but I don't want a single person stuck at a table of just couples.
I thought about just randomly selecting people - just throwing names into a hat and filling tables but then thought again. While it eliminated the awkwardness of asking a stranger whether you could sit with them, it didn't eliminate the awkwardness of sitting with someone you don't know or have anything in common with.
If you are doing assigned seats, how are you putting people together? What are you doing with random friends who don't know anyone or groups that are too large and need to be broken up?
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