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Fiance and I are going to be seated as a regular table with our bridal party.
I am still deciding. I want our own table, but at the same time it would be fun to have the bridal party with us as well.
I love this table for us!
We were going to do a sweetheart table but decided against it. We want to sit with our family and friends. We are not having a head table, only reserved tables for the family and bridal party.
Edit- I forgot to mention that the bridal party will have a spot reserved for their SO's at the reserved tables.
we will be seated at a regular table with our wedding party. Our linens will be the opposite of all the other guest tables. Guests will have Navy Blue w/ gold sashes. We will have Gold linen with Navy sashes..
We allowed the bridal party to sit with their guests since it was just my sister (MOH, his brother (BM), my brother (usher) and of course the little ones. Because our group was so small, we ended up having a sweetheart table.
Mmmm... I know they're popular, but I think a sweetheart table is a bit "stand"-offish and unapproachable. You're not at a fancy, romantic, hide-away dinner, you're in a room with all your family and friends and loved ones! I understand that it's easier for your wedding party to sit with their dates--that is a major drawback of a head table. I am not sure what we'll do. I am entertaining the idea of sittning at a regular table with just our parents.
I should have mentioned...my bridal party IS my immediate family. LOL. I'm not keeping anyone from sitting with their date!! I would never do that.
forgot to mention...since we have a small bridal party, the SOs will also be seated with us...
We are going to sit at a regular table with our siblings and their partners.
FI has his little heart set on us having a large head table with all of our wedding party + dates, but it hasn't really sunk in yet that our ballroom is waaay too small to do anything like that since we have such a big wedding party. I think we will end up with an 'honor attendant' table: Us, BM + wife, 2 MOH's + husbands.
We didn't want a sweetheart table (we figure we might as well mingle with all our nearest and dearest since we invited all of them and we love them! We will have lots of alone time on the honeymoon), but we also didn't want a head table. so we're just sitting at a normal round table, probably with our best man and his date and my MOH and her husband and our MC (who's also in the bridal party).
we will be at a head table with the rest of our bridal party! :)
I don't think sweet heart tables are stand offish at all. In fact I think they are more approachable because you aren't surrounded by all the bridal party, making guests who don't even know the bridal party feel comfortable coming over to say hi. It also lets you give the guests undivided attention when they stop by to talk.
We are def doing one :)
Plus I want a few moments where I look at my husband and know that we are sharing our first meal as husband and wife together alone. (even if people are stopping by and whatnot)
first we wanted to sit with the bridal party and their dates at a normal table, but we were one person too many and didn't want to squish so we did the sweetheart table and so glad we did! it was soooo nice eating dinner with just my husband! we were able to get up and mingle when we wanted, and then when we wanted to sit and just be the two of us, we could.
we may do a sweetheart table, or we may sit at a "regular" table with our Bridal party and their SOs...haven't decided yet. I've always known that i didn't want a long "head table" though.
ahh decisions.
Since dinner is only going to be 30 people, we're eating on a big long table. Like a giant family! But, I am having 2 "reserved" seats in the middle of the table for FH and me.
A sweetheart table is really not our thing. It seems weird to us that we will be off at our own little table having people watch us eat when we are supposed to be celebrating with everyone! We are having a long rectangular head table with our bridesmaids and groomsmen sitting with us.
We're sitting at a regular table with our siblings, their SO, and our parents! The other members of the bridal party will sit with their SO at other tables :)
We are going to have our sweetheart table in front of a fire place. So excited :)
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The thought of sitting at a table by ourselves while people watch us eat is really unsettling to my fiance and I. We also aren't having a wedding party, so instead we'll be sitting at a regular table with some of our closest friends.
We're planning on a sweetheart table, however, if we change our mind we'll sit with our family/friends at a regular table.
We are having 3 long rectangle head tables. We will be at the middle one sitting in a sweetheart seat (a seat big enough for 2 people) with the bridal party, the other two will be for our parents and grand parents.
Sweetheart table-can't wait!
I love the idea of us enjoying some nice time together because once dinner is over, the rest of the reception will be busy and no alone time. It's nice to know we'll share our first meal together and be able to chat about how the ceremony went, gossip about the family and friends, etc...I think it'll be absolutely fabulous. Don't like the head table concept myself.
We're having a sweetheart table and the pic you posted is on my inspiration board (because i'm having a pink wedding)! My FI doesn't mind, my FMIL is who minded the most but I'm not changing my mind. I like the idea of a sweetheart table, of having a "private" area for my husband and me. But ours will be a round table with my husband's parents and siblings to one side and my parents and siblings on the other side. sort of like this picture but without the draping tulle and a little farther apart.
I think we are going to either have a sweetheart table, or just sit at a regular table with out families.
We are going with a Sweetheart table. We will have the Bridal Party and immediate family sitting at tables near us. That way we can get up as we need and greet everyone.
I sat at a regular table with our parents. But I kinda wished me and my husband had our own table. Just so it could of have been more intimate. Or had just big long tables that everyone sits at. I have weird table issues... 
I am always switching seats w/ people because I think they have the better seat. Oh well I barely sat anyways...
I would love a sweetheart table. I think it depends on your bridal party as well. If you have people, who don't know each other well it would feel awkward to have them all sit at a large table especially if their plus one is sitting somewhere else.
We did a sweethear table that was put right in front of our 2 wedding party tables, on a stage that was in front of everyone. It worked well for us, and since we were only in our seats for all of 20 mins, we didn't have to worry about people feeling weird approaching us
We are doing a sweetheart table for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I think it would be more romantic and intimate (for US as a couple, not necessarily all newlyweds) to be seated together. I think sometimes at weddings, the true meaning of the day is lost in the celebration/partying. Being there together will give us time to be just be together as husband and wife, without worrying about entertaining others. Of course I plan to socialize throughout the evening, but for dinner, speeches, brief downtime, whatever, I am really looking forward to some personal time with my new husband!
Also, and this is a personal opinion of course, I find head tables to be a bit inconsiderate to the wedding party and their dates. I have always found it a little strange to ask your wedding party to do so much to help you prepare for and carry out your big day, only to isolate them from their spouses/significant others. It may not be bad for them personally, because by that time they might know eachother better, but if I was attending a wedding that my FH was in and had to eat dinner/converse by myself with people I didn't know, I wouldn't be too happy and might elect not to go at all. I know I am more of the "wallflower" personality, but there are a lot of people out there like me who aren't exactly social butterflies! That's one of the reasons I want to do a sweetheart table -- it gives us the ability to open up two BP tables on either side, so everyone can be joined by their SO.
I would really like a sweetheart table, but J is probably not going to go for it. He's pretty traditional. :)
Danadelphia, that is a great idea to sit with your siblings and their SO's. I wanted us to sit at a table with our parents, but my FI's parents are divorced and remarried, so it makes it really tricky. I'm going to suggest this to him.
i get to spend the rest of my life with my future husband, so i want to share my wedding with everyone especially our closest friends! so we're having a long table with us and the bridal party. :)
Head table! Sweetheart table seems sorta lonely at your own party in my opinion. As for the SOs of the wedding party, we'll probably just let them sit at the head table. (We haven't really had our wedding party doing anything for us at all, so I'd find them to be sorta drama queen ish if someone made a big deal about a head table anyway...)
Like @ottawabride, we're sitting at a regular table with our parents & sibs. As PPs have said, I've never liked the idea of a head table that separates the BP from their dates...plus IMHO, it looks like the BP is on stage & the guests are supposed to watch them (like some kind of Louis XIV-era ritual).
FI has never been a fan of sweetheart tables...a few years back, most of our friends got married & we saw every one of them at sweetheart tables where, even for the few minutes that the bride & groom had for eating, family & friends & little ones would interupt them. FI says he especially doesn't like that people are watching us eat at all.
By sitting with our parents & sibs, people who are not really in awe of us, we'll feel comfortable & model the whole point of the wedding - the joining of two families.
We are definitely doing a sweetheart table. I think it will be so much fun to have a couple moments alone to chat with my new hubby! Also, I have been in several weddings where I was isolated from my fiance at a head table...no fun.
We are having a sweetheart table... Our Bridesmaids and groomens are not in the wedding with their signifcate other.. and we thought it would be wierd for them to leave their partners solo.. so we are going to have our sweetheart table and our bridal parties will be at one table..
we're sitting at a regular table with our parents and siblings. i want my bridal party to be able to sit with their so's and their friends so that they're having fun, and i know my parents would be hurt if we didn't sit with them.
We are going to have a sweetheart table since his dad is his bestman and I want him to be able to sit with his mom. I want all our bridal party to be able to sit with their SO. Plus as soon as we are done eating we'll get up and say hello to other tables so this way I won't feel like I'm abandoning bridal party who is forced to sit without their SO.
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