Choose exact seats, not just tables

Most couples only decide who sits at which table. If you want to plan the chairs too, for the head table, or for place cards in a set order, you can put each guest in an exact seat.

Pick a chair for a guest

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   Zoom in

   On the Floor plan screen, zoom in until you can see the chairs around each table.
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   Drag onto a chair

   Drag a name from the Guest list (the Unassigned tray on a phone) and drop it on the chair you want. The chair lights up and the label on the name says seat.
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   Or tap an empty chair

   Tap or click any empty chair. A list called Seat a guest here shows everyone without a table. Pick a name and they sit in that chair. Or click New guest, type a name and click Add & seat to add and seat them, even if everyone else already has a seat.

Seated chairs show the guest’s initials, coloured by their group. Small badges mark a VIP (star), a plus-one (+1) and a guest with a seating need (+).

Table seating vs exact seats

• Exact seat: you dropped the guest on a chair, picked a chair, or dropped them on a table (they take the first free chair). Their details show the seat, like “Seat 3”.
• Table only: you seated them with Add guest in a table’s panel, or Auto-Seat placed them. They don’t have a fixed chair. On the floor plan they fill the remaining chairs in order.

You can mix both at the same table. Guests with exact seats keep their chairs, and everyone else fills in around them.

How seats are numbered

Seat 1 is at the top of a round, oval or square table, and the numbers go clockwise. On rectangle, banquet and head tables, the first half of the seats run along the top edge and the rest along the bottom. Ceremony sections number their chairs row by row.

Move someone to a different chair

Drag their chair to an empty one. If you drop them on a chair that’s already taken, you’ll be asked whether to swap the two. See move or swap guests.

What prints

The floor-plan chart puts each guest in their own chair, exactly as you arranged them. If more guests are seated than there are chairs, the extras are shown as “+N” so nobody goes missing.