Wedding head table ideas?

Your wedding party will be really grateful if you let them sit with their guests - it sucks to be stuck at a "guest table" with people you've never seen before.

Why not sit at a table of with a few key couples, instead of a head table:

you/spouse

maid of honor/guest

best man/guest

That way you have some company, but you aren't splitting up any couples.

Wedding Head Table Ideas

You can sit by yourselves if you want but it does look a little strange. You chose your wedding party because they are special to you. They are people that you want to surround yourself with. I didn't have the traditional head table, just another round table of 8 in the middle of all the other ones. On either side of us were our "immediate family" tables. We were able to mingle with the tables close to us and not really be on display. It worked out well and was really fun. Once dinner is over everyone moves around anyway. Don't stress out about this. My advice is to hang out with your wedding party. They are going to make your wedding! You don't want to miss out on it!

Sweetheart tables are really not good. I've been a bridesmaid 10 times in the last few years and it really isolates the bride and groom but at the same time guests are walking right up to you the entire time you are trying to eat. At the head table you are separated enough from the guests to wolf down some food and drink before mingling with guests. Not to mention that if I paid all that money to be in the wedding I want to sit somewhere with distinction, not with the other guests.

I had a sweet heart table at my wedding and I highly recommend it. Your wedding party will be so grateful if they can sit with their dates!

Plus, it's nice have some alone time with your new husband as you sit down to dinner. : )

I do not like head tables because I want my wedding party to sit with their significant others and their friends. Not all of my bridesmaids know each other very well so I dont want them to not enjoy themselves during dinner.

yeah you can do that if you want too. but i am having my wedding party seat with me at the head table. but i've been to wedding where the wedding couple seat together only and it was fine.

the head table is nice in the beginning of the evening while speeches are being made....but once the speeches are over allow your wedding party to drift off and sit with their mates for dinner. remind them that as the evening progresses you would like to see them mingle with the other guests. also you will want to be able to gather them together quickly for 'great aunt lucy' who wants to have her photo taken with the wedding party or 'uncle bob' who wants to have his photo taken with the 'guys'...that kind of thing.

good luck to you and happy wedding!

We had a sweetheart table and it was great. Our attendants got to sit with their friends/family/dates and we got to have some alone time. We didn't have anyone coming up to us to bother us. It felt more romantic to sit there with my new hubby.

You know, I had one at my wedding, but then no one sat at it lol. I thought we would use it.Then all the emotions came, and we wanted to be with our family, not seperated. It looked good as a decoration, but it wasn't necessary in the end.