Expert Advice on Table Planning
The Seating Plan
A traditional wedding breakfast will have the wedding party seated at a Top Table. This will be facing the wedding guests, who would be seated at round or square tables, spread appropriately throughout the room.
The Top Table
Assigning seats on the top Table can be a sensitive task and tradition can prove to be a good excuse for your final arrangements. Typically, the top table would consist of the Groom, his Best Man, his Father and Mother, the Bride, her Chief Bridesmaid and her Father and Mother.
This would be different in the case of a second marriage, or if parents have been divorced and remarried. Whilst the traditional approach provides an element of guidance, it is important to remember that this is your day and that you should seat those who mean the most to you at your Top Table - if, of course you are having one!
