What You Can Decide Before the Replies Are In
Most of a seating plan does not depend on the final numbers. What you can settle while you are still waiting, and the two things that genuinely have to wait.
Read moreWedding Seating Plan Guides
Guides and tips for planning your wedding seating: table layouts, etiquette, guest lists, and everything in between.
Seating a Blended Family
Step-parents, half-siblings, an ex who is still family, and children who belong to two households at once. How to seat a blended family without making anyone read a message into where they sit.
Read moreHow to Read a Venue Floor Plan
The PDF your venue sends is a room drawn from above, at a scale nobody tells you. What the shapes mean, and the five questions to ask before you place a table.
Read moreHow to Say No Children on Your Invitation
Adults-only wording you can copy, where to put it, how to address the envelope so it is clear without saying anything, and what to do when somebody asks anyway.
Read moreWhere to Seat Someone Who Flew In
Why distance is not really the problem, who to put them with, what jet lag does to an evening, and the thing a seat cannot fix.
Read moreSeating Guests Who Need Easier Access
Where to put guests who use a wheelchair, walk slowly, do not hear well, or need to leave early, and what to tell the venue before they arrive.
Read moreWhat Your Suppliers Need From the Seating Plan
What the venue, the caterer and the stationer actually get from a finished plan, which meals get counted, and the questions worth asking each of them.
Read moreThe Empty Chair at a Wedding
Someone who should have been there has died. What couples actually do about it, why there is no correct version, and the practical parts nobody warns you about.
Read moreWhere to Put the Short Table
Every plan ends up with one table that runs short. Where to place it so nobody reads anything into it, and the one thing that matters more than position.
Read moreWhere to Seat Someone You Had to Invite
The colleague of a parent, the family friend you have met twice, the relative invited to keep the peace. Where they go, where they should not, and why.
Read moreHow to Mix Two Families at One Table
Who bridges the gap, what to do when one family is much bigger than the other, and when not to mix them at all.
Read moreSame-Sex Wedding Seating Plan: Who Sits Where
The top table with two brides or two grooms, why the two-sides split is the wrong instinct, four sets of parents, and attendants who are neither.
Read moreSecond Marriage Wedding Seating: Children and Exes
Where adult and younger children sit, whether an ex-spouse attends and where, merging two established families, and guests who were at the first wedding.
Read moreWedding Seating Chart for 50 Guests: Tables and Layout
How many tables you need for 50 guests, whether one long table works at this size, and the layout choices a small wedding gets that a big one does not.
Read moreWedding Seating Chart for 150 Guests: Tables and Layout
How many tables you need for 150 guests, why the room and the service become the constraint at this size, and how to keep the plan manageable.
Read moreHow to Seat Coworkers at a Wedding
Whether to give colleagues their own table, plus-ones who know no one, the boss question, and mixing work friends with your other guests.
Read moreChildren's Table at a Wedding: Should You Have One?
Whether to have a children's table at your wedding, what age it suits, how to set it up so it works, and when to seat kids with their families instead.
Read moreWedding Table Name Ideas: 40+ Themes
Over 40 themes - places, your love story, favourite things, flowers, art and family - plus the one rule that keeps named tables from confusing guests.
Read moreWedding Seating Chart for 100 Guests: Tables and Layout
How many tables you need for 100 guests, the best table mix and layout, and a faster way to seat everyone than a spreadsheet.
Read moreRound vs Long Tables at a Wedding: Which Should You Choose?
Round tables or long banquet tables for your wedding? A clear comparison of conversation, space, cost, sightlines and styling, plus when to mix the two.
Read moreHow Many Guests Per Table at a Wedding? A Simple Guide
How many guests should you seat per table at a wedding? Comfortable numbers for round and long tables, how many tables you need, and when to break the rule.
Read moreHow to Make a Wedding Seating Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide
A practical step-by-step guide to making your wedding seating plan, from guest list and table shapes to etiquette, tricky families, and the final chart.
Read moreWedding Seating Plan Etiquette: Who Sits Where
Wedding seating etiquette: who sits at the top table, where parents go, how to handle step-families, and the golden rules for who sits where.
Read moreHow to Seat Divorced or Separated Parents at a Wedding
Practical, sensitive advice for seating divorced or separated parents: separate tables, new partners, the ceremony front row, and keep-apart rules.
Read moreTable Plan vs Seating Chart vs Escort Cards
UK "table plan" and US "seating chart" mean the same thing. Escort cards and place cards differ too. Here's exactly what each one is and when you need it.
Read moreWedding Top Table Ideas: Head Table, Sweetheart Table & More
From the traditional top table to a sweetheart table for two: the real options for your wedding head table, with pros, cons, and practical advice.
Read moreBest Wedding Seating Chart Makers (2026): An Honest Guide
Grouped by what you actually need: keep-for-life, free, all-in-one, or for planners. An honest guide from the team behind The Table Plan.
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