Table plans - pick your brains on where you are sitting everyone

We are not having a top table either. Just a sweetheart table. I think it will be fine to dot bridesmaids and bestmen around. It makes an ecclectic mix of people at each table. Keep smaller children with parents to be supervised but I think its fine to put older kids at their own table. We will be doing the same sort of thing except thetable with you and hubby.

My oh and I have 3 kids between us but none together so maybe we will have a table just us and our kids instead x

We are having our top table with just me and my new hubby, and then my parents and his parents. We are having our bridesmaids and best men sitting with their respective partners. We just feel that as the meal is a couple of hours long, we want them to enjoy the experience with their partners. They will still be doing all the usual duties that bridesmaids and best men do, but just sitting at a different table! We then intend to have family and friends sitting with people they know, but next to a table of people they don't! That way they still have the security of sitting with people they know, but they will hopefully interact with tables they are next to and will get to all bond together!

- Michelle x

We aren't having an official top table either and my bridesmaids will be sat on different tables to us, with their partners. I thought this was better as I wouldn't want their partners feeling lonely or left out during the meal ;-)

We are not having a top table as such wither, we are having the two of us, the two bridemaids and their partners and one of the groomsmen and his partner as they are coming from America (similar to your situation). The best mand and the other two groomsmen are sitting at a different table. Ours seems to have worked out at 2 family tables, 2 friend tables and our table. I don't think there is pressure on people anymore to have the traditional top table.

I am having a top table but simply beacuse it works out quite well. We have no children and our parents are still together. However not all bridesmaids and ushers will on the top table they will be sitting with partners etc. I like the top table but if it hadn't worked out I would have done something similar to the other ladies either a sweetheart table or a mix up pf all tables. I think it is much more common to have non-traditional table layouts now as many people marry after they have had children or after parents have split and re-married so a tradtional table wouldn't work out.

We aren't having a top table. We're having all round tables, and ours will be in the centre of everyone. At our table there will be me, my hubby, my parents (his are both no longer with us), and our 3 youngest boys, who are 7, 8 and 9. My eldest son is sat with his dad (my ex) and his dads wife, plus my OH's elder kids, and my brother and his guest. Then we have a few family group tables and work tables and mates tables.

Thanks everyone for your replies, I am loving being in the centre and having everyone around us