How to Seat Family at Your Wedding

There is a certain way to seat family at your wedding. A wedding is a time of tradition, with customs that have been engrained into the fabric of the ceremony. To honor those customs, you can follow a traditional seating arrangement, which places the family of the bride of groom in positions of honor. Read on to learn how to seat your family at your wedding.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Detailed seating chart
• Marker

1. Seat the groom’s immediate family in the front row. In a traditional wedding, the groom’s family is seated before the ceremony begins.
2. Seat the bride’s family, other than her grandparents and parents in the front rows of the wedding venue. Reserve the very front row for the bride’s immediate family.
   
3. Have the ushers escort the bride’s maternal grandparents to their seats at the front of the bride’s side of the wedding venue. This signals the beginning of the wedding. Next, the ushers escort the bride’s paternal grandparents to their seats.
4. Have the usher’s bring in the bride’s mother and escort her to the front of the wedding venue.
5. Seat the bride’s father after he escorts the bride to the altar.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure you have designated ushers for your wedding ceremony and given them the seating arrangements that you wish to use.
• A typical family seating arrangement places the parents and grandparents closer to the center aisle and siblings farther away. For the next row, you have aunts and uncles flanking the center aisle, with their children on the perimeter.
• Follow a clear seating pattern to avoid creating resentment.

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