Recreate your reception and arrange every table visually
Build the room your venue gave you, add tables and the elements that matter — dance floor, bar, entrance — then seat your guests on the same visual plan.
The layout you plan with becomes the seating chart you hand to your venue, planner or guests — one connected plan, not five separate files.
Start from a layout or scratch·Table or exact-seat·Change anything later
Build the room your wedding will use
Start from a ready-made layout or an empty room, then shape it with the tables and venue elements your reception actually has.
The table shapes your reception needs
Round, oval, square, rectangular, banquet, sweetheart, head and ceremony tables — each with its own name, size and seat count.
Real venue context
Place the dance floor, stage, DJ, bar, cake table, entrances and more — so you can keep clear routes and quiet corners.
Start from a layout or scratch
Begin with a ready-made room — like a head table plus ten rounds — or an empty canvas, and adjust from there.
Arrange with real controls
Drag, rotate, resize, multi-select, layer and lock — with alignment guides that snap tables into tidy rows.
Delete a table, keep its guests
Remove a table and its guests simply return to the unassigned pool — they’re never dropped from your guest list.
From empty room to finished chart
Step 1
Build the room
Start from a layout or scratch, add your tables, and drop in the venue elements — dance floor, stage, bar, entrances.Step 2
Arrange it
Drag, rotate and align tables around the room, then lock the venue elements your coordinator has confirmed.Step 3
Seat the guests
Switch to Seat-guests mode and drag guests onto tables — or exact chairs where the wedding needs them.Step 4
Make the chart
Turn the finished layout into a venue floor plan and a polished, guest-facing seating chart.
Arrange the room, then seat the guests
The floor plan does two jobs, and Lovely Seating keeps them in the same place. In Arrange mode you focus on tables, capacities and venue elements — no guest names crowding the view.
Switch to Seat guests mode and the same room fills with people: drag a guest onto a table when a table assignment is enough, or onto an exact chair for the head table or a plated course. As you go, the plan shows filled chairs, open seats, full tables and anyone still unassigned.
The detailed moving, swapping and locking lives on the table & seat assignment page.
Turn the working plan into a clear chart
Your working canvas isn’t only for planning — it’s the source of the chart you share. Generate a polished seating chart straight from the layout, without recreating the room in a design tool.
Show or hide what each audience needs: a detailed version for the venue with capacities and exact chairs, or a clean, guest-facing chart with just names and tables. Private dietary, accessibility and relationship details never appear on a guest-facing chart. Choose the page or poster size and export when you’re ready.
Example: planning Olivia & James’s reception
Fictional sample data, used to demonstrate the product.
Olivia and James have 126 guests in a rectangular ballroom: one entrance, a stage at the far end, a central dance floor, a bar along the wall, two columns and a cake table by the head table.
They start from a head-table layout, add fourteen round tables, and place the venue elements to match the venue’s diagram — locking the dance floor, stage, bar and columns before arranging tables around them. Using alignment guides they build even rows while keeping clear routes to the dance floor and restrooms, then switch to seating and assign exact seats at the head and family tables.
From the same plan they produce a detailed floor plan for the venue, a simple chart for the entrance, and table lists for final checks — so nothing has to be rebuilt when one guest or table changes.
A generic design tool — or a plan that knows your guests
You could draw the room in any design app. The difference is whether the layout is connected to who’s sitting where.
Just a picture of a room
- Redraw walls and tables by hand
- No link between a table and its guests
- Retype names into the diagram
- Recount seats manually
- Start over when a table moves
A layout tied to your list
- Tables carry real names, sizes and capacities
- Seat guests visually on the same plan
- Full and over-capacity tables flagged
- Delete a table and keep its guests
- One plan powers every chart and export
Lovely Seating arranges wedding tables and room elements — it isn’t architectural CAD, and it doesn’t print or ship the chart. It creates the digital and print-ready outputs you send yourself.
Made for couples and wedding planners
For engaged couples
Recreate your venue’s room in an afternoon, drag your tables where you want them, and hand your planner a layout that actually matches the space.
For wedding planners
Build each client’s room once, lock the venue-confirmed elements, and produce venue and guest-facing charts from a single, always-current plan.
What to know about floor plans & charts
It’s a visual planner, not CAD
Lovely Seating arranges wedding tables, seats and key room elements. It isn’t architectural drafting software — there are no construction-grade measurements.
Not every wedding needs a full room
Some couples only need guest names and table assignments. You can create useful seating outputs without rebuilding every wall, door and object.
Capacity is separate from table size
A table has a set guest capacity and a visual size on the canvas. Making the shape look bigger doesn’t add seats — you set capacity yourself.
Deleting a table keeps its guests
Remove a table and its guests return to the unassigned pool, still on your guest list. Nothing about the guest record is lost.
Continue into the complete seating workflow
Wedding floor plan & seating chart questions
Can I create a wedding floor plan from scratch?
Yes. Begin with an empty room and add the tables and venue elements you need, or start from a ready-made layout — like a head table with ten round tables — for a faster start.
Which table shapes can I use?
Round, oval, square, rectangular, banquet, sweetheart, head and ceremony-section tables — plus a custom option. Each table has its own name, size and seat count.
Can I add a dance floor, stage and bar?
Yes. Venue objects include the dance floor, stage, band, DJ booth, bar, buffet, cake and gift tables, entrances, exits, restrooms, columns, walls and text labels.
Can I assign guests directly on the floor plan?
Yes. Switch to Seat-guests mode and drag guests onto tables or exact chairs. The detailed moving, swapping and capacity controls are covered on the table & seat assignment page.
Does the editor work on a tablet?
The editor runs in your browser and supports touch and pinch-to-zoom on a tablet. It isn’t a native iOS or Android app, and a larger screen is comfier for building a complex room.
Can I lock the venue layout?
Yes. Lock the dance floor, stage, entrances or columns once their positions are confirmed, so they don’t move by accident while you arrange tables around them.
Can I print the floor plan as a seating chart?
You can create print-ready PDF and image exports from the finished layout at a range of page and poster sizes. Available formats and sizes depend on your plan — Lovely Seating produces the file; printing is up to you.
Do I need a floor plan to make a guest list by table?
No. Table-organised and alphabetical guest lists are useful outputs even without a detailed visual room — a full floor plan is optional.
New to wedding seating? Read the complete walkthrough — How to Make a Wedding Seating Chart.
Build the room, seat the guests, make the chart
Arrange your reception visually, keep every table connected to your guest list, and turn the finished plan into a chart your venue and guests can understand.
Free to start · Nothing to install · Change the layout as plans develop