firstly good luck with the planning tool i dont htink its quite working properly or maybe im just being useless which is robably more likely! personally i will be sat with my parents and o/h with his i love them both just feel thats how it should be for everyone to be totally comfortable. i am also mixing the tables to a point although im having the tables set out in a square as dont want anyone to have their backs to anyone . I want both families to get to know each other but it does mean ive selected who sits by who very carefully i.e not sat my gossipy loud brash brother with o/h's cousin who is quiet and would not like him much! its very hard to decide but just trying to blend some of the more able to converse with the less talkative. But im onlyhaving 39 quests if there was people who ididnt really know this would be impossible! dont under estimate your parents knowledge of your family see what they think about how they would feel if they were all mixed up?

Tradition is that his family sit beside you and your family beside him.. That the way we're doing it.. It'll be:

Best Man, Step son 1, Step son 2, FiL, Me, H2B, MOB, FOB, BOB, MOH(SiL)

My mum is doing my table plan as the draft attempt I did stressed me out enough lol.. I have too many cousins with kids and there is loads of 3 places left and 2 places left with noone to fill them properly :-/ I'm trying to avoid having more than 8 per table as it'll be pretty crowded :-/ But the 9 person tables I ended up with had a few kids on them each, so hopefully a little less squished for the adults.. xxx

I think its a good idea to mix people up! My OH wont let me at ours though he said it'll be awkward, but i dont understand how its possible not to, cos both the venues were interested in said there will only be 6/7 tables with 10-12 around them, and i only have 20 coming, and he has the rest!

ive got 14 on my top table cos the kids will still be so young! yikes!
it goes:

PB, BOB, MOH, FOG, FG, MOB, H2B, ME, FOB, MOG, BM, PB, MOH2 , PB

Not mixed our lot as yet but plenty of time to re-arrange, wanted to sit people with who they know for the formal none drunk part! :)

Kelly xx

our top table is very untraditional since both of us have parents who have split up and the parents have OHs we like etc so we have a top table of 12, best man, FOG's wife, FOG, MOGs partner, MOG, H2B, me, MOB, MOBs partner, FOB, FOBs partner, MOH, its a lot of people but its how we want it, and because of the size of our families we have put people on tables with their own family but mixed the tables up so the tables surrounding them are from the other side, and as pointed out, its only for a couple of hours tops so they should be able to manage for that amount of time