Type your guests, say who arrives together and who should sit apart, and our seating code proposes a table plan. Change the list and arrange again as often as you like.
Worked example
For 16 guests, we seated 16 of 16 guests across 3 tables, kept all 3 households together, put the pair who must stay apart at different tables. The wedding party, Isla Bramley, Rory Pemberton, Tamsin Coyle, Fergus Lyle, sit at the top table.
16 of 40 guests. Give people the same household name and they arrive together. Leave the couple out: two seats at the top table are kept for you.
Paste a column from a spreadsheet. A second column, or a comma, is their household.
Your plan is drawn below the rules and tables.
A long table for the couple and the wedding party, seating 8.
We lay the tables out for your headcount the same way the calculator does, in 60 × 40 ft (18.3 × 12.2 m).
We seated 16 of 16 guests across 3 tables, kept all 3 households together, put the pair who must stay apart at different tables.
The floor plan, drawn to scale in 60 × 40 ft (18.3 × 12.2 m).
In Fizz
This tool seats a list. The Fizz seating planner seats your real guests from their RSVPs, keeps them in step as answers change, and gets the plan into their hands.
One tap seats everyone who has said yes. The maid of honour, best man and bridesmaids go to the top table first, and anyone who did not fit is listed with the reason. You can undo it in one tap and drag anyone to fine-tune.
Give someone a role and their chair is marked with a small icon, with a key beneath the plan. Roles are set once on the guest list and follow the guest.
On their phone a guest types their name and the plan zooms to their chair, with who sits on their left, on their right and across from them.
Ask it in plain words who still needs a seat, or to seat a family near the top table. It is an AI assistant and says so before you type anything. It only suggests: nothing changes until you tap Apply, and every change comes with an Undo. It comes with the Celebrate and Champagne plans.
Open any table to see its seats and each seated guest with the dish they chose on their RSVP, so the kitchen and the top table always agree.
It follows fixed rules, not a guess. Guests in the same household are seated together, sit-together pairs are joined, keep-apart pairs are never put at the same table, and the wedding party goes to the top table first, in order of honour. It fills the emptiest table it can, so the room stays balanced. The same list always gives the same plan.
It says so, and why. A household of twelve cannot sit at a table of ten, and a keep-apart rule can leave nowhere to go. Those guests are listed under Not seated with the reason, and you can change a table style, a rule or a household and arrange again.
No. When there is a top table, two of its eight seats are kept for the couple, so the wedding party gets six. Add your bridesmaids, best man and the rest, and tag their roles.
No. The plan is worked out in your browser and nothing you type is sent to us or saved. Close the page and it is gone, so print the floor plan or copy the tables if you want to keep it.
No. This tool uses fixed seating rules and no AI. The Fizz seating planner also has an optional seating assistant, which is AI and tells you so before you type anything.
Want the whole thing done for you? See the wedding seating planner in Fizz