How to Make Wedding Seating Arrangements

Formal weddings are always beautiful. They help teach the respect that marriage deserves. Children learn that before God, marriage is the ultimate sign of love between a man and a woman. Make wedding seating arrangements to make sure that in a traditional wedding brings with it the question of who sits where and on what side.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

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   Understand that traditional church weddings seat the parents of the bride on the left side, and parents of the groom on the right. Make Wedding Seating Arrangements so that oth families are seated on aisle seats, with the immediate families seated inpews directly behind.

2. Learn that seating for friends is not designated. They usually sit in the rear on the side of who they are friends with,the bride or groom. When they are friends of both they can sit on either side.

3. 

   Attend a traditional Jewish wedding in a synagogue or temple and find that the parents of the bride sit on the aisle seats on the right and the grooms on the left side. Make Wedding Seating Arrangements and place immediate family directly behind. The vows take place under a Chuppah {Huppah} an ornamented canopy adorned with fresh flowers, tassels or embroidery.

4. Understand that immediate families always sit directly behind the bride or groom regardless of where the marriage takes place.Make Wedding Seating Arrangements and realize that this is not an easy task. At times it makes friends or families upset if they do not sit where they would like to.

5. Realize that if the parents are divorced, their partners will be seated in the second and third rows. Seated with them, are any children that they might have had together.

Tips & Warnings

• The job of the ushers is to ask guests if they are friends, or related to the bride or groom and sit them accordingly.
• Guests arriving after the mother of the bride is seated, should just take a seat in the rear, without disturbing anyone.
• Seating for parents who are divorced, and not remarried, or widowed is individual preferences depending on their relationships to each other, and to the bride or groom. Usually the bride will sit with the parents who raised her if this circumstance should arise.
• People are excited at weddings, but they should keep their voices down to a whisper. Low voice talking is allowed among guests, but should cease once the procession begins.
• It is advised to never take a gift to the reception because there is no way that you can know that the wedding couple will ever see the gift. Send the gift to the home of the bride, or the return address on invitations. Cash gifts can be given prior to the reception, when greeting the new married couple on the reception line.
• If you arrive while the ceremony is already taking place, just find any available seat, regardless of what side it is on.

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[barba0727]

on 4/27/2009 Good info on seating at a wedding. 5*

[babygetgreen]

on 4/26/2009 It can be hard trying to figure out the seating at a wedding. Good information!

[jmessina10]

on 7/29/2008 Great info!

[momofour]

on 7/21/2008 Great article! As Meri said, we are losing touch with tradition these days. It is sad!

[danielzrib]

on 7/21/2008 Very good info on a traditional wedding. Thanks!