If you have ever tried to make a seating arrangement for a wedding you may have a Very small Understanding how difficult it is to make the Met Gala sitting diagram. This is one of the most important aspects of the event that the team spends the most time on, strategically sitting guests by looking at common interests.
“A lot of thought goes into who sits next to whom, if they were sitting together last year, if they have sat next to each other at other events, so much goes into it, it’s shocking,” said Ward Durrett in The first Monday in May. “A lot of power brokers.”
Of course, seating goes every year through many, many changes when the event takes shape, with Ward Durett tells Vogue She learned early on to invest in Velcro straps over post-it notes to avoid errors. “There have been many iterations of the seat diagram,” she said. “When I first started, we only had little sticks, and it was a nightmare – things fell off, we lost people and written about names a million times a day.”
Color coding is also used, as Ward Durrett likes to go with the female-man-woman pattern if possible. And another key rule that may surprise you: “Never put 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 do. What is the point if you come here to spend time with your husband?” Sorry, Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds!
