These Foods Are Always Banned From the Met Gala Menu, By Anna Wintour

If you’ve ever tried to make seating arrangements at a wedding, you may have small size Understand how difficult it is to make a seating chart for the Met Gala. This is one of the most important aspects of the event where the team spends the most time, seating guests strategically by looking at shared interests.

“A lot of thought goes into who sits next to who, if they sat together last year, or if they sat next to each other at other events, a lot of things have gone down the tubes, it’s shocking,” Ward Durrett said. First Monday of May. “A lot of power brokering.”

Of course, each year seating arrangements go through many changes as the event unfolds, says Ward Durrett Vogue magazine I learned early on to invest in Velcro across post-it notes to avoid any mistakes. “There have been many iterations of the seating chart,” she said. “When I first started, we only had a little bit of adhesive, and it was a nightmare – things were falling out, we were losing people and rewriting names a million times a day.”

Color coding is also used, as Ward Durrett likes to follow a woman-man and woman-man pattern if possible. “And there’s another cardinal rule that might surprise you: ‘Never put couples next to each other,'” she said. “The whole point of these things is to meet new people, and be interested in what other people are doing. What’s the point if you come here to spend time with your husband?” Sorry, Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds!