The seating chart works in three steps you can revisit at any time: Room, Groups and Fine-tune. You never start from a blank canvas, and the automatic placement explains why it seats someone somewhere — you always have the final say.
Step 1 — Room
Pick a layout: round tables, long banquet tables, a U-shape or ceremony rows. The planner suggests the numbers based on your confirmed guests ("52 guests → 6 round tables of 10?") and you adjust them with plus and minus. The sweetheart table is included by default. Generate the room and everything is neatly arranged — you can still drag tables around afterwards.
Step 2 — Groups
This is where you set the logic that steers the automatic placement:
- Seat groups together — family with family, friends with friends (based on your guest categories).
- Fixed spots — pin a household to a specific table; this is always respected.
- Keep apart — these households never share a table.
Step 3 — Fine-tune
The visual room, with a counter per table (7/10) and a colour showing its status. On the left is everyone who still needs a seat — per household, because families belong at a table together. Drag a household onto a table, click a table to see who's seated there, or take a household off again.
- Only confirmed guests are in the list; households that still have to reply sit behind a toggle. When a late RSVP comes in, that household appears automatically.
- Auto-fill the rest only seats guests who don't have a spot yet — whatever you placed by hand stays put. Every suggestion explains why ("with group friends", "fixed spot") and you apply them per household or all at once.
- Everything saves automatically.
Tip: start with the fixed values (family tables, sweetheart table) in step 2, let auto-fill do the rest and refine afterwards. Save the final puzzle until your RSVP deadline has passed.
Availability per plan
The seating chart is part of the final-stretch pack (€29) and the full planner (€75).