Where to seat the dates of the wedding party

By CARLEY RONEY
Scripps Howard News Service
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Q: Where should I seat the dates of the wedding party? Should they be at the head table, too?

A: Traditionally, the head table is comprised of the couple and other members of the wedding party, with significant others seated at separate tables.

But you don't have to do it that way. It can be tough for wedding-party members to not sit with their significant others at a wedding, particularly if they don't know any of the other guests.

If your wedding party is small, you could keep everyone together and expand the head table to include the wedding party's significant others. Another option is to sit with the best man, the maid of honor and their respective dates, and have a table for the rest of the wedding party, including significant others. Or skip the head table altogether, and seat the wedding party and dates at guest tables, and have a sweetheart table just for you and your groom.

(Carley Roney, co-founder and editor in chief of The Knot, the nation's leading wedding resource, advises millions of brides on modern wedding etiquette at www.theknot.com.)

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