Pick a seat, not a side.. Thoughts?

I love it and had thought about it for us. I think it can help avoid confusion on the day! Just rememebr to reserve seats at the front for your bridal party.

I love it, but only because ours is going to be tongue in cheek: "Pick a seat, not a side, either way it's for the Bride"

I been to 2 weddings where they had this. One of them it just caused chaos and everyone just kinda stood about not knowing what to do. And then at the other one, the closer family ended up stuck at the back when they probably should of been more at the front of the room.

It is probably best to let people know where they are sitting, stops confusion and most of the time people prefer to be told where they are sitting. Some people just dont want to think for themselves lol

Love it. I am slightly biased though, as my OH's family won't be there, so no sides for us

I love yours SW!

We are combining tradition and modern! we will have reserved seats for the main family, grooms party and bridal party. Then we are asking the ushers to tell everyone else to sit where they like. We hzvd an usher from each side and those with reserved seats will be informed beforehand, so hopefully it will work!

Love this!

I think it's a great idea.

Not really sure how it can cause chaos as surely you just sit down!!

I may be biased though as we are doing it. Front two rows reserved for the bridal party, M & D and probably people doing readings so they are close to the front. Everyone else is on a first come first served basis.

I've never been shown where to sit at a wedding I just sit down. ?

I been shown where to sit in a few weddings but maybe depends on the size of the wedding

I am only telling people where to sit because my family are a bit shy and laid back so would all sit at the back and then my partners family will be pushing to the front lol :-(

Our usher is telling the guest which side to sit too. He'll love it that he's telling people where to go.

I like the idea but I suspect in practice people will just sit with the people they already know anyway and so segregate themselves naturally.

At my first wedding (never really know how to say that), we didn't bother having 'sides' and we didn't bother with a sign. People just sat where they wanted or where there was space. It really didn't matter and didn't really need pointing out.

We will be reserving the front 3 rows for immediate family & bridal party, but everyone can sit where they want.

This is beyond amazing. I have a huge family and my WTB doesn't so I may have to do a crafty steal here!

I also think this is inspired :-)

Our ushers (if we ever get round to appointing anyone) or the wedding co-ordinator at the venue, will simply tell people to take a seat wherever they like. The front row will be reserved for the bridal party and those involved in readings etc, but other than that, no rules. As most of our guests are friends and not family, I think it will be fairly relaxed, which is what we want.

We will be doing this I love the idea!

We will reserve the seats at the front for the appropriate Bridal Party, parents etc. but the rest of the guests can parks their bums wherever they want!

We are not having ushers, we are reserving first 2 rows on each side of the ailse for family/ bride/groom party, and on third row 2 chairs for my friend who is doing a reading. Apart from that, people can sit where they like

We're having this because a) I love it and b) oh has a very small family compared to mine so if people thought they had to sit on the brides side it would look rather odd, lol!