Every family has opinions about where people sit, and they tend to arrive in your texts. Put the requests, the guest list and the room in one plan, and give the venue a chart you are finished with.
Free for up to 20 guests and 4 tables. No credit card required.
Collect everything first, then seat people once.
Import your guest list and note the requests as they come in: who must sit with whom, who should not, and who needs to be near the door. They stop living in your messages.
Not the drag and drop. The requests, the deadlines and the second opinions.
Turn "please do not put my uncle near her" into a rule the chart remembers. When a move breaks one, you see it before anyone else does.
Try both on your real floor plan and see which one leaves room for the dance floor.
Compare head table optionsKeep plus-ones beside the people who brought them, even when you move the whole table.
Send a view-only link so family can look without being able to change anything. On the Planner plan, invite up to three people to help edit.
Mark guests attending or declined as replies come in, and the empty seats show up in the plan straight away.
Download a PDF of the chart for your coordinator, or order a printed seating sign for the entrance from the PlanSeats sign shop.
Set a date for the chart to be finished, and tell the people who will have opinions about it. A week after the RSVP deadline is usually enough, and it gives your venue the final count on time.
Ask for seating requests early and all at once, rather than waiting for them to arrive one by one. A request you know about in month two is a rule; the same request in the final week is a rebuild.
Do the hard tables first: the wedding party, both sets of parents, grandparents, and anyone whose seat needs care. The tables of friends almost seat themselves once those are done.
When it is finished, stop. Export the final version, send it to your venue, and let late changes be small ones.
Work out your table count from your guest list.
Ways to lay out the room and show guests their seats.
Start from a reception layout that is already set up.
The list, the requests and the room in one plan, so the chart you send is the one you meant.
When a guest cancels the week before, you move two people and download it again, instead of rebuilding a document.
A printable template looks lovely on the day, and it is the last step, not the first. Every change before then means retyping names into a design file.
PlanSeats is where the seating is worked out. Keep editing until the chart is final, then print it or have a sign made from it.
Found a design you love elsewhere? Plan the seats here, then copy the finished tables across.
Yes. Send her a view-only link. She does not need an account, and she always sees the latest version.
Set up the room and the list as soon as invitations are out, and seat people once most replies are in. Many brides finish it one to two weeks before the wedding.
Yes. Download it as a PDF or an image and print it at home or at a print shop. If you would rather have a finished foam-board sign, you can order one from the PlanSeats sign shop.
Free for up to 20 guests and 4 tables, so you can try it on the wedding party. For the whole guest list, the Planner plan is $8.99 a month.
No. Send them the PDF, or a link they can open in a browser.
One place for the list, the requests and the room, and a chart you can call finished.
Free for up to 20 guests and 4 tables. No credit card required.