A seating chart generator for weddings, galas, banquets, and corporate dinners. Below is the real floor plan editor, loaded with a sample wedding you can rearrange right now: nothing to download, no account, and nothing leaves your browser. Building your own event takes a one-time pass from $9.99.
You're exploring a sample wedding. Sign up when you're ready to plan your own event.
Drag tables anywhere on the floor plan. Add rounds, banquet tables, a head table, a dance floor, and anything else your venue has.
Drag guests from the list onto seats. Group families and friends, track dietary needs, and keep couples together.
Sign up and pick up an Event Pass when you are ready to export a print-ready chart or share a link so guests can find their table from their phone.
Seating a room is less about diplomacy than people expect and more about doing things in the right order. Work through these five steps and most of the awkward decisions resolve themselves before you ever place a guest. They hold whether you build your seating plan in a seating chart creator like this one or on paper at the kitchen table.
Get the floor plan right before you seat a single person. Ask your venue for table count, table sizes, and where the fixed elements sit: the dance floor, the bar, the doors, the cake table, the DJ. Everything downstream depends on this, and moving a table after you have seated 120 people is how an afternoon disappears.
Sort the guest list into households and social clusters first. College friends, work colleagues, your aunt and her partner, the neighbors who only know one of you. Most seating problems are solved at this stage, on the list, rather than on the plan.
Seat the head table, the immediate family, and any guests who genuinely cannot sit near each other before you do anything else. Constraints only get harder to satisfy as the room fills up, so spend your freedom while you still have it.
Once the difficult placements are locked, the rest goes quickly. Keep older guests away from the speakers, put the loudest table near the dance floor, and leave a couple of seats open for the changes that always arrive in the last two weeks.
You need two versions: a display chart guests read on the way in, and a working copy for whoever runs the room on the day. Print both, and share a live link so guests can look up their own table from a phone instead of asking you.
The shape of your tables decides how the evening feels, and it sets your guest count before you seat anyone. All four can be built from the round, rectangle, square, and oval tables in the editor, so you can try a layout on the sample event above and see how the room fills.
The default for a reason. A 60 inch round seats eight comfortably or ten if you are pushing it, and everyone can see everyone else at their table. Best for conversation, worst for sightlines to a stage, since roughly half the table ends up with their back to it.
Rectangles seated on both sides. They fit more people into a narrow room and photograph beautifully, but guests only really talk to the four or five people within reach. Choose these when the room is long or when the look matters more than mingling.
A head table seats the couple with the wedding party, which is traditional and takes a lot of seats out of circulation. A sweetheart table seats just the two of you, which frees the wedding party to sit with their own partners. There is no wrong answer, but decide early because it changes the count everywhere else.
One open end facing a stage or screen. Standard for corporate dinners, award nights, and anything with a presentation, because every seat has a clear view forward. Inefficient on space, so check your capacity before committing.
Weddings are where most people meet a seating chart for the first time, but the problem is the same anywhere guests have assigned seats. The editor is used for galas and fundraisers where table sponsors need to sit together, corporate dinners and award nights built around a stage, quinceañeras, bar and bat mitzvahs, reunions, and banquet halls running several events in a week.
Nothing about this seating chart tool assumes a wedding. Tables, guest groups, meal choices, and the floor plan itself are yours to name and arrange, so a charity gala with numbered sponsor tables works exactly the way a reception with a head table does.
Yes. The sample app above is the real floor plan editor with a sample wedding preloaded, and no account is required to use it. When you want to save your plan, print it, or share it with guests, a one-time Event Pass starts at $9.99. There is no subscription for couples.
No. The sample app runs entirely in your browser. You create an account when you are ready to plan your own event, which also takes a one-time Event Pass starting at $9.99 to save it, export it, and share a live link with guests.
No. Everything you build in the sample app stays in your browser on your device. Nothing is sent to a server unless you sign up and build your event in an account.
Round, rectangle, square, and oval tables are built in, along with dance floors, stages, and other venue shapes you add and label yourself. You can also build custom tables and shapes at your own dimensions to match an unusual room, in the sample app and in your own event alike.
The sample app is capped at 200 guests across 30 tables, which is enough to lay out a real room and see how the editor copes. Nothing you build there is saved. Event Passes cover your own event and are sized by guest count: up to 50 guests for $9.99, 150 guests for $19.99, or 500 guests for $39.99, each as a one-time purchase for one event.
Yes. The editor works for any seated event: galas, fundraisers, corporate dinners, quinceañeras, reunions, and banquets. Tables, guest groups, and floor plans are fully customizable.
The sample app on this page is free to use and needs no account, so you can build a full chart and decide whether the editor suits you before paying anything. Saving your own event, exporting it, and sharing it with guests takes a one-time Event Pass starting at $9.99. There is no subscription and no trial that expires.
Lock the floor plan first, then sort your guest list into households and social groups, then place the head table and any guests with hard constraints before anything else. Fill in the remaining tables around those anchors and leave a few seats spare for late changes. Working in that order means you rarely have to undo a decision.
Yes. With an Event Pass you can export a print-ready chart for display at the entrance, along with a working copy for whoever is running the room. You can also share a live link so guests look up their own table on a phone instead of crowding the display board.
Yes. You can bring in a guest list you already keep in a spreadsheet rather than retyping it, and then seat those guests in the editor. Names, groupings, and meal choices come across with them.
A template is a static document. Move one guest and you are editing text boxes by hand, and there is nothing checking that your table of eight still holds eight. This is a generator: seats are real objects, capacity is counted for you, and a change to the room updates everywhere at once. When the guest list moves in the final two weeks, and it will, that difference is the whole point.
Sign up, then unlock your event with a one-time pass from $9.99. No subscription, and the pass never expires.