Every guest in the right seat, in one evening.
Most seating tools hand you an empty grid. Upload the list you already have and this one hands back a complete first plan, before you have decided anything. Then it keeps up every time the numbers change.
Free to build, for as long as you like. $199 once, when you print or share it.
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The real work
The hard part is the people, not the tables
A seating plan is really a map of who gets on with whom. That is the part a spreadsheet cannot hold in its head, and the part that keeps you up at night.
Keep them apart
Divorced parents, an ex on the list, a feud that still simmers. Set a keep-apart rule once and auto-seat will never put them at the same table.
Keep them together
The friends who booked the same hotel, a family with young kids. Mark them to stay together and they move as one group, every time you re-seat.
Catch the clash first
Every table shows whether it is holding your rules or breaking one, so you spot the awkward pairing in the app, not on the day.
What you end up with
A floor plan, the lists your suppliers need, and one link for the day
Lay out your real room, walls and pillars and dance floor. One click seats everyone still standing, and what comes out is ready to print and send.
- What you hand over - A print-ready floor plan, an A to Z list of who is sitting where, place cards, and a caterer sheet with every dietary note by seat. Ask the venue, the caterer and the stationer which they want, and send that one.
- A private link you control - Your family and your suppliers can see it, not change it, and it always shows your latest plan, even if you move someone the night before.
- Guests just search their name - They see their table in a couple of seconds on any phone, with no account to create.
What it is really about
Everyone reads the seating plan
The RSVPs come in and you build a plan. Then someone drops out, someone who said no can suddenly come, and one family thing moves three people at once. So you build it again.
None of that would matter if a seating plan were only a list. But it is the one part of the day every guest has to look up, and they read it as a statement about where they sit with you. So the worry is not really about getting it wrong. It is about accidentally telling someone they do not matter, at one in the morning, on the third rebuild, trying to make the numbers fit.
An app cannot make your wedding feel personal, and this one does not claim to. What a guest notices is whether they were thought about. You are hosting, not doing admin, so the counting and the rebuilding is what this takes off you, and the thinking is what it leaves you time for.
Right now
Someone is flying in from abroad and you still have not worked out where they sit. The spreadsheet has four tabs. Two people cannot be near each other and you keep putting off that conversation.
After an evening with this
Everyone has found their seat. The person who travelled furthest is sitting with people they will be glad to see. And you never think about it again.
Your options
What most couples use, and where it breaks
A spreadsheet
Free, and you already know how it works. But there is no room in it. You type names into cells and hold the shape of the venue in your head, and it says nothing when two people who should not be near each other end up on table six.
Pen and paper, or cut-outs
You can see the room, which is why people reach for it. It survives about one round of changes. After that you are rebuilding it on the dining table every time somebody replies.
The seating tab in a planning suite
It is already there and it costs nothing. It is also a grid with a guest list beside it, built to tick a task off a checklist rather than to solve the hard part.
Leaving it until later
The most common option of all, and it works right up until two weeks before, when the stationer needs names and you have not started.
What you actually want is fairly specific
You want to finish it without learning software. You want it to hold the awkward pairings so you do not have to, and to update rather than start over when the numbers move. And you want to know it is right before the day, not on it.
Nine things, and all nine are included
One core walkthrough and eight more, all included. Nothing is split out and nothing is held back.
- The First-Draft WalkthroughCore$400
- The Private Keep-ApartIncluded$270
- The Nobody-Left-Out CheckIncluded$130
- Who Needs WhatIncluded$130
- Never Build It TwiceIncluded$330
- Why Everyone Is Where They AreIncluded$200
- The Vendor Handover PackIncluded$270
- The Day-Of KitIncluded$110
- The Etiquette AnswersIncluded$70
Nine of them. Bought separately they come to $1,910. All nine are included.
Free to build, pay to take it out
What $199 buys
It buys knowing. Before the day, not on it: that everyone has a seat, that no rule is broken, that no table is over capacity, and that the caterer has every dietary note. One payment, and it is yours to keep.
You will know it works before you pay
Build the whole thing first. Import your list, lay out the room, set the rules, seat everyone. Nothing is locked and nothing asks for a card. You pay when you want to take it out: print it, export it, send the link. By the time there is anything to pay for, you have already watched it work.
The One-Evening Seating Plan
For couples doing it themselves, so nobody feels overlooked.
$199
Once, yours to keep
Free to build, and no card until you take it out
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Nothing to fail
Nineteen things we commit to, and three we pay out on
We have no reviews yet, so instead of asking you to take our word for it, here is everything we will put in writing.
Three guarantees
- Seated, or we seat itWe said one evening. Do the setup, and if you do not have a plan you are happy with, send us your list and we will finish it. Free.Do the setup: import your list with at least 20 guests and answer the seating questions. Ask between 3 and 60 days before the day, from the email on your account. Three rounds of changes are included.
- Thirty days, no questionsFull refund, any reason, and you keep everything you have already exported or printed. One exception, and we say so before it applies: if you ask us to finish your plan, that work is delivered and the refund is used up.
- There on the day, or your money backPrint your plan and the day needs no app, no wifi and no account. It is on paper in your hand, and nothing about it depends on us.
Your data
Your guest list is yours
We never sell it and we never hand it to anyone else. Delete a wedding and it is gone, guests and all.
Private notes are never shown
Who cannot sit near whom stays between you.
A real company behind it
Named, registered, contactable.
Before you pay anything
Free to build
Build your whole plan without a card.
Your partner joins free
Both of you, own phones, at the same time.
What it costs
One price, whatever changes
Every guest, every change, every reprint, right up to the day.
No wedding markup
The price is not higher because the word wedding is attached.
One payment, no subscription
It does not renew. There is nothing to cancel.
The price you pay is locked
What you pay today is what you pay.
Doing the work
Bring your spreadsheet
Import what you have, no retyping.
Whatever your situation
Divorced parents, a marquee, a kids table, a top table nobody agrees on.
Change the room, keep the seating
The venue moves the layout and the plan follows.
We answer within 12 hours
Every day, weekends included.
The plan health check
Anyone left out, any conflict unresolved, any table over capacity, every name proofed before it prints.
What you can hand over
PDF, printable cards, and a list by table.
Nobody asks you on the day
Whoever is on the door can answer without finding you.
Whatever happens
Print it, and nothing depends on us
Your plan is on paper in your hand.
Your work is always yours
We never close your plan. Editing stays open until a month after the day, and after that your plan stays yours to read, print and export.
Yours to keep
For a year after the wedding: who sat where, for the thank-yous and the photographs.
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The questions couples actually ask
Why $199 when the seating tool in my planning app is free?
Can I build the whole plan before paying anything?
What if I build the whole thing and never pay?
Is this a whole wedding-planning suite?
Do my guests need an account?
Can I import from Zola or The Knot?
What if the venue changes the room on us?
We have not booked a venue yet. Can we try both?
What happens when plans change the week before?
Every guest sits somewhere that says you thought about them
Bring the list you already have and see your first plan tonight. It is free until you print or share it, and after that every change is included, right up to the day.
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