[Sca-cooks] IKA - head table seating?

[Sharron Albert]

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>>When your feasting halls have a head table, what are the seating 
>>arrangements of the head table? That is, who sits next to whom and 
>>when does this change under various circumstances? What size and 
>>shape are the tables?
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>>Iasmin
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>Here in Namron in Ansteorra we seat the King & Queen in the center 
>of a long table that seats eight and faces the rest of the feasters. 
>The prince and princess go on either side if present. Then come the 
>Baron & Baroness. The other two or four seats are filled at the whim 
>of their majesties, their highnesses, or the baroness.
>On those occasions when the crown is not present the prince & 
>princess are given the seats of honor. If neither  is present the 
>B&B go in the middle. When on occasion only one of a couple is here 
>we simply ask who the wish to have for a dinner partner.
>By the way, we comp K & Q, and P&P but the B&B pay their way.
>We occasionally have regional events with a feast. When that happens 
>we set up three tables end to end and seat each B&B on either side 
>of the crown by date of the group becoming a barony.
>Margarite

Does that mean that even if the event is a baronial event and the K&Q 
attend, they get the center of high table?

What you've shown above is what we'd expect at kingdom events 
(although West doesn't do kingdom feasts, they're usually at 
principality coronets or smaller groups). At principality coronet 
feasts, it is usually the P&P in the middle, the K&Q directly to 
their right (if in attendance, we do live in Alaska), and the rest 
whoever the P&P want there.

At baronial events, the B&B sit center, K&Q to right, P&P to left. We 
did that at baronial investiture in April, and then set the other two 
territorial B&Bs at the ends of the long legs of the U on either side 
of the high table. We also had a visiting Lord of the Mists (heir to 
Prince of Mists), which made it interesting. We had the new B&B in 
the middle, and as the stepping down B&B weren't a 'couple' they were 
split: she (that is, me) sat with the Lord of the Mists to the right 
of the K&Q (well, actually just the King came), and he sat at the 
other end with his lady. It worked nicely. Of course, if the P&P or 
K&Q were to protest the custom, we don't argue and re-arrange the 
high table. Been there, done that.

We comp no one as a rule, except a few starving student scullery 
workers (G). But neither will we dun the K&Q, or P&P for event fees. 
The usually pay, however, in the West. At least that's been my 
observation at constab and as autocrat.

Morgana, who loves IKA discussions, and will unlurk for them
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