Reply To: Separate seating at Weddings

I realize we are bending ourselves into pretzels here just to make a nice mixed seating wedding, but that last suggestion just won’t work. With 10 or 12 seats at a table (for the math impaired that’s 5-6 couples) there will always be one lady sitting next to one man who is not her spouse. I’ve been there. Leaving one empty seat is a very costly solution. As anyone fortunate to have paid for a catered simcha knows, you pay by chair or setting. You have to give the caterer an exact count of tables, & settings at each, several days in advance & are charged accordingly.