Make a chart
What the planner does for a wedding or any other event, and exactly what costs money.
- Wedding seating chart
Build a wedding seating chart in your browser, with no sign-up: drag tables, paste guests, auto-seat by group, and export the list free under 50 guests.
- Free seating chart maker
A free seating chart maker: plan at any size, with no email address. Your data stays in your browser, and this page shows exactly what costs money.
- Table plan generator
Make a table plan for a wedding, dinner or event in your browser, free and with no sign-up. Paste your guest list, then export a CSV free under 50 guests.
Planning guides
The method from guest list to printed board, the numbers behind it, and the mistakes worth avoiding.
- How to make a seating chart
A step-by-step method for building a seating chart that works: gather names, group them, place the tricky people first, then check it before printing.
- Seating 100 guests, worked through
A full worked example: 100 guests, ten round tables, where the head table goes, how the groups break down, and the pinch points that catch people out.
- How many guests per table
Allow 60cm (24in) per guest: a 5ft round seats 8, or 10 squeezed, and 100 guests need thirteen 5ft or ten 6ft rounds. Plan yours in the free planner.
- What size should a seating chart be
A1, A2, 18x24 or 24x36: which poster size fits your guest count, how far away people can read it, and the print resolution each size actually reaches.
- Seating chart vs escort cards
Seating chart poster, escort cards, place cards or a QR code: what each one costs, how long it takes, and which suits your venue and guest count.
- Seating chart mistakes
Eleven seating chart mistakes worth avoiding, from seating by obligation to forgetting the vendors, the sightlines and a printed copy for the day itself.
By event
What changes when the room is a conference dinner, a gala, a banquet, a christening or a classroom.
- Corporate event seating
Corporate event seating for a dinner, awards night or offsite: sponsor tables, a top table, mixed departments, and a CSV for badges, free under 50 guests.
- Conference dinner seating plans
Seating a conference dinner or awards night: sponsor tables, speaker placement, mixing delegates who came alone, and the dietary list the caterer needs.
- Charity gala table seating
How to seat a charity gala: sponsor and host tables, auctioneer sightlines, where beneficiaries sit, and spreading donors so the paddle raise works.
- Banquet seating charts
Banquet seating is 5ft rounds of 8 to 10, or long rows of 6ft tables at 6 each. Plan yours in the free planner; the kitchen's CSV is free under 50 guests.
- Christening and baptism seating
Seating a christening or baptism lunch: godparents, both sets of grandparents, the children, and why a small party is harder to seat than a wedding.
- Classroom seating charts
Make a classroom seating chart free in your browser. Rows, horseshoe or pods. Paste your class list, print a copy for cover staff, export CSV.
Groups and teams
Split a class or a team into random groups, with named people kept apart or together, then seat the groups at tables.
- Random group generator
Free random group generator: paste names, choose a group size or number of groups, and keep named people apart or together. No account, nothing uploaded.
Tricky bits
The placements to settle before anyone else is seated: family, the top table, divorced parents and wheelchair access.
- Wedding seating chart etiquette
Who sits with parents, grandparents, the wedding party, kids and single guests, and when to ignore tradition. Practical rules for a room that feels right.
- Head table vs sweetheart table
Sweetheart table, traditional head table, king's table or a family table. The real trade-offs in cost, photos and how the evening actually feels.
- Seating divorced parents
Divorced parents at a wedding: how to talk to each one first, where to seat step-parents and new partners, and who manages it on the day. Kind, practical.
- Wheelchair accessible seating plans
How to place wheelchair spaces on a seating plan: clear floor space, route widths, table height and knee clearance, and what to ask the venue first.