Free wedding floor plan maker: arrange every table, then seat your guests
Recreate your reception at its real size: enter the room’s width and length, add the elements that matter — dance floor, bar, entrance — then arrange every table and seat your guests on the same 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.
Free — no credit card needed·Start from a layout or scratch·Table or exact-seat
Want to see a finished chart first? Open the live example floor plan — a finished reception with around 130 guests seated, no sign-up needed — then start your own when you’re ready.
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
Onboarding builds a starter floor plan from your guest count. Auto-arrange can lay tables out again (head table on top, even grid, spaced rows), and tables you add later never re-flow a room you’ve arranged by hand.
Arrange with real controls
Drag, rotate, resize, multi-select, layer and lock — with alignment guides that snap tables into tidy rows.
Tables at their real size
Pick the sizes rental companies use — 5, 5½ or 6 ft rounds, 6 or 8 ft rectangles, longer banquets — or type your own in feet or centimeters.
Will everything fit? Plan in your real room
Have a floor plan from your venue? Choose Upload plan, add the PDF or a photo and confirm one wall’s length: the room comes out to scale, with the dance floor, bar and doors read off the drawing for you to check. How uploading works.
Or click Room and enter your venue’s width and length in meters or feet, or start from a small, medium or large hall. Before you save, it tells you roughly how many guests fit at tables like yours.
The floor then becomes that room. The walls are drawn, the floor stops growing as you add tables, and any table with a chair past a wall gets a red outline. Auto-arrange lays tables out inside the walls, or tells you how big the room would need to be.
A scale bar shows distances, and while you drag a table you see the gap to the next one, chair back to chair back. Under 60 cm (about 2 ft) it turns amber: guests won’t be able to walk behind seated people. The room size guide has every detail.
What can you place on a wedding floor plan?
Everything below sits on one canvas, so the room, the tables and the guests stay connected.
| Element | Options | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| The room | Width × length in meters or feet, or a freeform floor | Walls are drawn and tables past a wall are flagged |
| Tables | Round, oval, square, rectangular, banquet, sweetheart, head and ceremony-section tables, plus a custom option | Real sizes (5 ft, 6 ft, 8 ft…), a name and a seat count each |
| Entertainment | Dance floor, stage, band, DJ booth | Lock them once the venue confirms their position |
| Food & drink | Bar, buffet, cake table, gift table | Keep clear routes around them as you arrange tables |
| Ceremony | Ceremony arch, guest seating block, ceremony-row tables | Plan the vows in the same editor |
| Room features | Entrances, exits, doors, restrooms, coat check, columns, walls, text labels | Match the venue’s own diagram |
| Guests | Assigned to a table, or to an exact chair | Done on the same plan, in the same view |
How do I lay out a wedding reception floor plan?
Place the fixed things first — entrance, dance floor, stage or DJ, bar — then fit tables around them, leaving clear walkways. These rules of thumb keep a room comfortable.
Where should the dance floor go?
Put the dance floor centrally, or at least in clear view of the head table, with guest tables around it. In 409 weddings planned on Lovely Seating (Jul–Oct 2026), 71% of couples who drew their room placed a dance floor and 50% a bar. Keep the band or DJ right beside it, and make sure the route from the tables to the bar doesn’t cut across the floor, so the bar queue never blocks dancers. Ask your coordinator where power and staging usually go.
How much space does each table need?
A 60-inch round seats 8–10 guests and needs roughly a 10 × 10 ft area once you include chairs and walkways — about 12–13 sq ft per guest, with at least 2 ft between chair backs. Long banquet tables in rows pack tighter, at about 10 sq ft per guest. For a median-size wedding of 84 guests at rounds of 8, that works out to about 1,050 sq ft of table space, before a dance floor of 300–450 sq ft. For exact numbers from your room size, use the venue capacity calculator to check how many tables fit your venue. Still waiting on RSVPs? Estimate how many guests will actually come before you set the table count.
Where should the head table or sweetheart table go?
Usually against the far wall facing the room, or beside the dance floor, so every guest can see the couple during toasts. Most couples choose a head table: 64% sit at one and 20% at a sweetheart table. Seat close family at the nearest tables and keep older guests away from the speakers. Our seating chart etiquette guide covers who sits where.
How do I make a wedding floor plan?
Step 1
Build the room
Set the room size (or keep a freeform floor), 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
Bring in your organised guest list (import a spreadsheet or let AI read it), then drag guests onto tables — or exact chairs — in the same view.Step 4
Make the chart
Turn the finished layout into a venue floor plan and a polished, guest-facing seating chart.
How do I arrange the room, then seat the guests?
The floor plan does two jobs in one view. Drag a tabletop to move the table, click it for a small toolbar (add or remove chairs, rotate, duplicate, rename) and add tables, the dance floor or the bar from the rail on the right.
Seating happens in the same room: drag a guest from the list onto a table when a table assignment is enough, or onto an exact chair for the head table or a plated course. Tap an empty chair to seat someone there, and drag a guest back to the list to unseat them. When the room is final, Lock layout keeps tables in place while you keep seating. 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. Planning the vows too? Ceremony chair blocks use the same editor — start from the wedding ceremony chair layout template.
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.
Prefer a phone-friendly option at the door? Read the QR code wedding seating chart guide, or browse more wedding seating chart ideas for displaying the chart.
Example: planning Olivia & James’s reception
Fictional sample data, used to demonstrate the product.
Olivia and James have 126 guests in a 24 × 16 m 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 set the room size, start from a head-table layout, add fourteen 5½ ft rounds, 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 layout designer — or a floor plan creator 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. Drawing the room in a design app today? See the Canva seating chart alternative comparison.
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
Real sizes, but not CAD
Room and table sizes are real, in meters or feet, so you can check walls and walkways. It isn’t architectural drafting software: no construction drawings or 3D views, and DWG/DXF files aren’t read. Upload a PDF or photo of the venue’s plan instead.
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.
Seat count is separate from table size
A table’s real size and its number of seats are set separately. A bigger table doesn’t add seats on its own — you choose the capacity, and the chairs spread to fit.
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.
Wedding floor plan & seating chart questions
Is there a free wedding floor plan maker?
Yes. In Lovely Seating’s wedding floor plan creator, building and editing your floor plan is free, with no guest or table limit and no card required, and you can see the finished chart on screen as a watermarked preview. Pro ($39 one-time, one wedding) adds print-ready PDF and image charts without the watermark. So you can plan the whole room and see it finished before you ever pay.
Does it work online, in the browser — like a drag-and-drop table planner?
Yes. It’s an online table planner that runs in any modern browser — nothing to install. Add tables and venue objects, then drag and drop them to match your real room, with snap-align, pinch-to-zoom and fit-to-screen. It works with touch on tablets and phones too.
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 use the starter floor plan that onboarding builds from your guest count. Auto-arrange can lay the tables out in a pattern at any time, and adding tables later won’t move a room you’ve arranged by hand.
Is there a wedding floor plan or table layout generator?
Yes. Upload your venue’s floor plan and confirm one wall, and Lay out my tables offers up to three layouts that fit your guest count (most room to dance, fits everyone comfortably, maximum capacity), each keeping exits, the bar and the dance floor clear and showing how many it seats. It follows fixed spacing rules, not AI. Onboarding also builds a starter layout, and Auto-arrange can lay tables out in a pattern at any time.
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 and coat check; for the ceremony, an arch and guest seating blocks; and for the room, entrances, exits, doors, restrooms, columns, walls and text labels.
Is the floor plan drawn to scale?
Yes. Set your room’s width and length in meters or feet and the plan is drawn to that size, with real table sizes, a scale bar and the gap between tables while you drag. Keep a freeform floor if you don’t know the size yet, and confirm final positions with your venue — it’s a planning tool, not an architectural drawing.
How many tables do I need for my guest count?
Divide your guest count by the seats per table: 120 guests at 60-inch rounds of 8 need 15 tables, or 12 tables at 10 per round, plus a head or sweetheart table. The free wedding table calculator does the maths and can hand the result to a new floor plan.
Can I assign guests directly on the floor plan?
Yes. Drag guests from the list onto tables or exact chairs, right on the floor plan — there's no separate mode. The detailed moving, swapping and capacity controls are covered on the table & seat assignment page.
Can I build the floor plan on my phone?
Yes. There’s a mobile layout editor with a table drawer and bottom sheets, and touch and pinch-to-zoom work on phones and tablets. It runs in your browser — it isn’t a native iOS or Android app — and a larger screen is still easier for a big 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?
Yes. The free plan shows the finished chart on screen with a watermark. Pro ($39 one-time, one wedding) adds print-ready PDF and image exports without it, in sizes from A4 and US Letter up to 30×40-inch posters. 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.
Guides and templates for your reception layout
- Assigned vs. open seating Decide whether every guest gets a table, a seat, or neither.
- How to make a wedding guest list Settle the list before you size the room and the tables.
- Wedding table plan templates A table-by-table list for the caterer and venue.
- Alphabetical wedding seating charts An A–Z guest finder for the entrance, from the same plan.
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