The First-Draft Walkthrough
The problem
A guest list, a room, and no idea how to turn one into the other.
What this does about it
How any couple can go from a spreadsheet to a finished first draft in a single evening, without learning software.
What it is
Upload whatever list you already have, however messy, and get a complete first seating back before you have made a single decision. It is the core, not an add-on: the starting point every other part builds on.
What we ascribe to it
€360. Eight to ten hours of your own evenings, at roughly thirty pounds an hour. Anchored.
That figure is what this would cost you to solve another way, not a claim about what it is worth. Five of the nine parts anchor to something real and four are a judgement call, which is why the total is always stated as what paying for each separately would come to.
Everything in it
All 53, and every one is included.
- a venue layout library: start from a floor plan your planner already saved, or draw the room yourself
- draw the room from a photo
- guide to reading a venue floor plan
- guide to what you can safely do early
- import any spreadsheet with column auto-detection
- import any CSV or spreadsheet
- an annotated written walkthrough, no signup
- a first draft generated the moment a list is uploaded
- a starting pattern by guest count you can accept as-is
- upload a list, get a first draft plan back
- save on every keystroke so a lost signal loses nothing
- phone-first editing, not just viewing
- offline edits that sync
- clean, dedupe and structure on import
- a display-name override per guest
- normalise titles and capitalisation
- name-format preview as it will print
- flag likely duplicates
- a worksheet for defining households
- detect households from surname and address
- a guessed household is labelled a guess, and says how to change it
- group as a unit that moves together
- what is safe to decide before RSVPs close
- plan built on groups, not fixed seats
- rebalance on every change
- trace a layout from an uploaded image
- venue layout library
- warn when a guest count crosses a table boundary
- calculator built into setup
- printable table-count card
- comfort vs capacity shown for every table
- what the venue number really means
- questions to ask the venue
- a room checklist: dance floor, band, bar, cake, gifts
- place dance floor, bar and band as objects
- warn when furniture leaves too little room
- re-fit guests onto a changed layout
- swap layout, keep the seating
- first draft generated from the guest list
- start from a similar wedding's shape
- a one-pager on seats versus tables
- switch between table-only and exact-seat modes
- which to choose and why
- build the who-knows-who graph from how guests were grouped on the invite list
- tags and groups per guest
- cluster guests by how they know you
- visual map of relationships
- a first draft you can accept as-is
- sensible defaults for everything
- resume exactly where you left off
- the single next decision waiting for you when you open it
- next-best-action prompt on open
- twenty-minute guided session
How you get it
It is included. There is no tier that holds it back and nothing here is sold separately: The One-Evening Seating Plan is one price, €179, and you can build your whole plan before you pay anything.