If you've ever tried to arrange seating for a wedding, you may have one small understand how difficult it is to make the seating chart for the Met Gala. This is one of the most important aspects of the event where the team spends the most time, strategically drying guests with common interests in mind.
“A lot of thought goes into who sits next to whom, if they sat together last year, if they've sat next to each other at other events, there's a lot going on, it's shocking,” he said. say Ward Durrett to The first Monday of May. “A lot of power brokering.”
Of course, each year the seating arrangement goes through many, many changes as the event takes shape, and Ward Durett explains Vogue he learned early on to invest in velcro through post-it notes to avoid mistakes. “There have been many iterations of the seating chart,” he said. “When I started, we just had little stickers, 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 female-male-female-male pattern if possible. And another key rule that might surprise you: “Never seat spouses next to each other,” she said. “The point of these things is to meet new people and be interested in what others are doing. What's the point if you come here to hang out with your husband?” Sorry, Blake Lively i Ryan Reynolds!
