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Wedding seating chart maker

Paste your guest list, add your tables and drag each guest to a seat. You'll see how many seats are left at every table, and when you're done you can print the chart or download it as a CSV for your venue. No account needed.

Everything stays in your browser. Nothing is sent to WedKit or saved on our servers.

Guests

One per line. Put a couple or family on the same line, separated by commas, and auto-fill keeps them at the same table.

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Tables

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How to make a wedding seating chart

Most couples get through it in an evening once the RSVPs are in. Work from the outside in: the fixed seats first, then the groups, then the people who could sit anywhere.

  1. Wait for the RSVPs

    Start once your RSVP deadline has passed and you know who's coming. Seating people who might not come means doing it twice.

  2. Get the room from your venue

    Ask how many tables fit, what shape they are and how many seats each one takes. That's the number of seats you have to work with, not the number you'd like.

  3. Seat the fixed tables first

    Your own table, then parents, grandparents and the wedding party. These seats are rarely up for debate, and they set where everyone else goes.

  4. Keep groups together

    Put couples and families on one line when you paste the list. Then seat whole groups: college friends, work friends, cousins. People enjoy dinner more next to someone they know.

  5. Fill in the rest

    Place the guests who could sit anywhere into the open seats, or let auto-fill spread them evenly and adjust from there.

  6. Send the final list a week ahead

    Your venue and caterer need the chart, and usually the meal choices by table, about a week before. Print an alphabetical list for the escort card display.

Questions couples ask

When should we do the seating chart?
After your RSVP deadline, once you know who's coming. Most venues want the final chart about a week before the wedding, so plan on two to three weeks between the deadline and that date. A rough draft earlier is fine, as long as you expect to change it.
How do we seat divorced parents, or people who don't get along?
Give each parent their own table with their own family and partner, at the same distance from yours, so neither feels second. For anyone else who needs to stay apart, seat them first, at tables on opposite sides of the room, before you fill in everyone else.
Should we have a kids' table?
For kids about eight and up who know each other, a kids' table near their parents works well. Younger children usually sit with their parents. Count every child as a seat, including toddlers in a high chair, and tell the caterer how many kids' meals you need.
Round or rectangular tables?
Round tables of eight or ten make conversation easier across the table and suit most banquet rooms. Long rectangular tables fit more people in a narrow room and feel like a family dinner, but guests mostly talk to the people beside them. Ask your venue what they have and what fits.
What do we print for the escort cards or seating display?
Guests look for their own name, not their table, so the display should list everyone alphabetically with their table beside it. The print view here gives you a list by table for the venue, then an A to Z list for the display.
Is anything I enter saved or shared?
Nothing is sent to WedKit. The tool runs in your browser, and your chart is kept in this browser's storage so a refresh doesn't lose it. Start over clears it.

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In WedKit, the seating chart uses the same guest list as your RSVPs and meal choices, so it stays in sync. Guests who RSVP show up ready to seat, and you can turn on a page on your wedding site where guests find their table.

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