Ahh the (dreaded) Seating Chart

In the weeks and months leading up to the wedding, people constantly asked me how wedding plans were going (usually good) and "Are you stressed?"  For the most part, I was not too stressed.  Yes, not having a priest was a bit stressful (but a bit comical too) and not getting reply cards back on time was a bit stressful, but the first thing I freaked out about was losing our florist (and that all turned out fine in the end).  Actually, that's not entirely true, we were a "bit" stressed about the total cost of everything, but that was on-going and we didn't so much freak out about that as know we were going to be cutting it close with what we saved and what we needed.  Once the flower situation was resolved, I didn't stress again too much until it came time to do the seating chart.  We were supposed to put 8-10 people at a table.  Some tables were so easy. We had one family that comprised 10 people so that was easy.  But most tables were not quite so easy.  Person A could not sit with person B for legitimate reasons.  Person C could not sit near person D for legitimate reasons.  Person E could not sit with Person F for not so legitimate reasons, but I'm a bit of a people pleaser so I was determined to make it work.  Person G did not want to sit with Person H.  And I wasn't sure about Person I sitting near Person J.  You get the idea. At one point my fiancé said, just let people sit where ever they want, don't do a seating chart.  Once we finally separated the people that needed to be separated and granted a few special requests (this took about three drafts), we thought all was peachy...Then we showed it to our parents. 
My parents had a few minor concerns, but they were easy fixes.  My husband's parents had bigger changes to make.  So we made them. And then at the last minute one of their relatives was unable to make the wedding so we had to redo the chart again.  Life was finally looking peachy, when we realized we had a table of 6 and two tables of 7, we figured one table of 7 might be doable, but if we were supposed to have 8-10 to a table, we probably should have most of the tables within that range.  So back to the map AGAIN.  It took some finagling and we had a couple of people who were invited that didn't really know anyone so we did the best we could to sit them with people who we thought had things in common with them, but we're not perfect.  Most people seemed content in the end and those that weren't were at least polite enough not to complain to our faces.  :)  Let's just say I was glad to finally hand in the seating chart.