I would speak to your boyfriend about your concerns. It's really down to the what the couple getting married wants. At my wedding, I allowed the dates of the wedding party to sit at the head table so that they wouldn't have to be separated.
This is normal for the bridal party to sit together for dinner. Also normal for their significant others to sit elsewhere. He will be unavailable during the ceremony and dinner, and maybe the dances the rest of the time the wedding party is free to do what they want.
He may also be unavailable the times between the ceremony and the reception as that is when most couples do their pictures. I'm sure you have enough social skills to make small talk with people during dinner. Talk about the wedding, weather, people like talking about their kids, work, where they are from, how they know the couple, etc. Most people sit significant others of the bridal party (who aren't in the wedding) together or with other people they might know.
For my wedding, I actually only had 2 people whose significant other wasn't also in the wedding. 1 was an extended family member (my cousins husband) so I sat him with my cousins parents and the other one knew absolutely nobody (my friends bf) so I sat him with mutual friends of my friend and I and people I knew were very social. Since he was pretty much the only one who didn't know anyone our time between the wedding and reception to do our pictures, he went with us.
Then when we arrived at the reception venue his s/o introduced him to the people he was sitting with. Time to pull up the big girl panties, it's not about you this time.
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