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Wedding seating chart guides

Practical notes on building a seating chart: the list, the room, and the cards. The planner itself is on the free wedding seating chart maker homepage.

Build the list

• Wedding seating chart template

  One row per guest, a table column, and a count that goes red before the venue does.

• Spreadsheet vs a seating chart

  Keep the sheet for RSVPs. Move to a floor plan when the numbers have to become furniture.

• Free seating chart makers, compared

  Spreadsheet, poster, online account, or a planner that never uploads the guest list.

Seat the room

• How to seat wedding guests

  Families, divorced parents, children, plus-ones, and the people who need an aisle.

• How many people fit at a round table

  Eight at a 60-inch round, ten if you squeeze, and the aisle the tenth chair steals.

• Banquet reception seating chart

  The numbered plan, meal counts, and aisles a banquet captain can set without you.

Print the cards

• Escort cards vs place cards

  One names the table at the door. The other names the chair. Keep them from drifting apart.

• Printable wedding place cards

  Print from the seated list, in table order, after the seating is finished.

• Avery 5302 place card template

  Four tent cards to a letter sheet, and the alignment mistake that wastes a packet.

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