Seating Charts

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Lately, the thing I have been thinking about the most when it comes to my wedding is the seating chart. Now, I know my wedding is over five hundred days away, and we have not even sent out "Save the Dates" or anything like that, nor have we even made a final guest list, but still, this is the number one thing on my mind.

First of all, we're not having numbers for tables. Since Justin and I are both extreme book nerds, we are naming our tables after books that we both like, therefore our tables will be called Harry Potter  or Lord of the Rings or Alice in Wonderland. We're having 150-200 people at our wedding, and doing simple division, that's 15-30 different books.

But once we have the titles for our tables decided, we need to figure out who's sitting at what table/ Do I stick all my teacher friends together, so they can talk about students and exchange lesson ideas? Do I sit friends from college at one table and friends from high school at another? Or do I try to arrange tables by common interests, for example, all of Justin's gamer friends can sit at one table, and all my friends, who like wine-tasting and shopping can sit at another?

A recent wedding that I went to had free-for-all seating. However, I'm not really sure I like that idea. What if all my Texas friends try to sit at one table and then there's not enough room for all of them, and they get stuck sitting with people, who they may not feel comfortable with?

What do you all think? Is it better to assign seats, or is it better to give your guests free reign of the tables? And, if I assigned seats, what would be the best way to arrange who sits at what table?

Guess, I'm glad I have a long time to figure this one out.