The 2022 Met Gala Hosts Could Be Our Favorites But

In case you’ve ever tried to do seating preparations for a marriage, you may need a tiny understanding of simply how tough it’s to do the seating chart for the Met Gala. This is among the most points of the occasion that the staff spends probably the most time on, strategically seating friends by frequent pursuits.

 “A whole lot of thought goes into who sits subsequent to who, in the event that they sat collectively final yr, in the event that they’ve sat subsequent to one another at different occasions, a lot goes into it, it is stunning,” Ward Durrett mentioned in The First Monday in Could. “A whole lot of power-brokering.”

In fact, annually the seating preparations undergo many, many modifications because the occasion takes form, with Ward Durett telling Vogue she discovered early on to put money into Velcro over post-it notes to keep away from any errors. “There have been many iterations of the seating chart,” she mentioned. “Once I first began, we had simply little stickies, and it was a nightmare—issues have been falling off, we have been dropping folks and rewriting names one million occasions a day.”

Coloration-coding can also be used, as Ward Durrett likes to go along with the woman-man-woman-man sample if doable. And one other key rule which may shock you: “By no means seat spouses subsequent to one another,” she mentioned. “The entire level of this stuff is to satisfy new folks, and to be focused on what others are doing. What is the level when you come right here to hang around together with your husband?” Sorry, Blake Vigorous and Ryan Reynolds!