If
you’ve
ever
tried
to
do
seating
arrangements
for
a
wedding,
you
might
have
a
tiny
understanding
of
just
how
difficult
it
is
to
do
the
seating
chart
for
the
Met
Gala. This
is
one
of
the
most
important
aspects
of
the
event
that
the
team
spends
the
most
time
on,
strategically
seating
guests
by
looking
at
common
interests.
“A
lot
of
thought
goes
into
who
sits
next
to
who,
if
they
sat
together
last
year,
if
they’ve
sat
next
to
each
other
at
other
events,
so
much
goes
into
it,
it’s
shocking,”
Ward
Durrett
said
in
The
First
Monday
in
May. “A
lot
of
power-brokering.”
Of
course,
each
year
the
seating
arrangements
go
through
many,
many
changes
as
the
event
takes
shape,
with
Ward
Durett
telling
Vogue
she
learned
early
on
to
invest
in
Velcro
over
post-it
notes
to
avoid
any
errors. “There
have
been
many
iterations
of
the
seating
chart,”
she
said. “When
I
first
started,
we
had
just
little
stickies,
and
it
was
a
nightmare—things
were
falling
off,
we
were
losing
people
and
rewriting
names
a
million
times
a
day.”
Color-coding
is
also
used,
as
Ward
Durrett
likes
to
go
with
the
woman-man-woman-man
pattern
if
possible.
And
another
key
rule
that
might
surprise
you: “Never
seat
spouses
next
to
each
other,”
she
said. “The
whole
point
of
these
things
is
to
meet
new
people,
and
to
be
interested
in
what
others
are
doing.
What’s
the
point
if
you
come
here
to
hang
out
with
your
husband?”
Sorry, Blake
Lively
and
Ryan
Reynolds!
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