Brawling guests, punching and shouting and a whole lot of chaos is probably not what every girl thinks of while she’s day-dreaming about her marriage. But quite unfortunately, a lot of wedding days are ruined because of this. In retrospect people wonder if it was the seating plan that did it! Yes! Something as simple as that can be the root cause of all your problems.

You don’t want to be one of those people who say “If only I hadn’t seated so-and-so next to so-and-so” do you? Well here are a few guidelines for your wedding seating plan! Follow them to the “T” for a perfect wedding; otherwise, risk a drunken brawl or two!

For the Top Table

Ok, for the top table, we all know what tradition and custom dictates. The bride and the groom are to be seated at the top table with their respective parents and the best man and the maid of honor right? This works well if both sets of parents get along reasonably well with each other and with their respective partners.

But, if, suppose one set of parents are divorced and want to attend the wedding with their new partner, it could lead to major trouble!

So break away from convention!

Why not form a seating plan wherein the bride and groom host a table of family and near-and-dear ones and each set of parents also do the same? There is no problem if there is intermixing of generations; the object of the exercise is to ensure that everyone has a good time!

Other Tables

For other tables, do ensure that you don’t seat warring relatives next to each other or even within screaming distance of one another! Often, the best people to come up with a seating plan are the bride and groom themselves, so why not enlist their help if they’re up to the task?