Why "free" usually isn't (and why this is)
Wedding software has a habit: free to start, paid at the exact moment you're committed. Seating tools are the sharpest case — you invest two evenings placing 120 relatives, then the export button asks for a subscription, and the week-of-wedding you pays it. We built the opposite. Everything required to finish — the editor, the guest import, the auto-seat, the PNG and the print-ready PDF — is free without an account, forever. The optional Pro upgrade (one-time, not a subscription) removes the small footer credit from exports and triples resolution for poster boards. You can ignore it completely and still walk out with a chart your venue can run dinner from.
The second thing weddings deserve that free tools rarely offer: privacy. Your guest list is names, family relationships, and occasionally which relatives can't share a table. Here it never leaves your browser — the chart autosaves to your device, not our database.
Built for the wedding, not adapted to it
- Wedding furniture as first-class buttons: rounds of 8 and 10, banquet tables, one-sided head tables, sweetheart tables, and a ready-made kids table.
- The revision reality: undo, autosave, and two-click guest swaps — because RSVP season means the chart is never done until it's printed.
- Venue-ready output: the PDF carries your names, venue, and date with per-table counts, formatted for letter paper and clean at poster enlargement.
- Real starting points: ten templates drawn to actual table capacities, and ten annotated examples to choose a room shape from.
When you're ready to place names, the step-by-step guide sequences the decisions — your table, the parents, the hard cases — so the free tool finishes the job in one sitting.