A seating chart is easy to describe and surprisingly slow to build by hand: forty-odd names, a handful of tables, and constraints that live in your head rather than on the page. Eventinary’s seating plan is a drag-and-drop table layout tied to the guest list you already have, so placing someone is one motion and the chart always agrees with who actually RSVP’d.
The seating plan reads from the same guests who RSVP’d to the wedding — not a second list you re-enter. A guest who has not replied yet, or who is not coming, shows up as exactly that, so you are never seating someone who cancelled two weeks ago.
Because party size comes from the RSVP itself, a table’s capacity is counted in people rather than invitations. A couple who confirmed for two takes two chairs at whatever table you drag them to — you never have to remember to count plus-ones by hand.
Round and oval tables draw guests spaced evenly around the edge; a rectangular table lines them along both long sides; a top table is built for the head of the room, seated along one side facing out. Every table can be rotated to match the actual floor plan, and resized as your final numbers settle.
The point of building the chart early is catching the awkward cases while there is still time to fix them: the ex-couple you keep placing at the same table by accident, or the eleven people still sitting in the unseated list a week before the wedding.
The unseated list is the honest state of the plan — it does not shrink until a guest actually has a chair, so "done" means done rather than "probably fine."
A table over its stated capacity is shown in red rather than silently accepting one more chair. That is deliberate: finding out a table seats eight when you have assigned nine is much cheaper to fix from this screen than from the reception floor.
The seating plan is free, with no limit on the number of tables or guests, and it lives on the same event as your guest list, RSVPs and vendors — not a separate seating-chart tool you export a spreadsheet into and hope stays in sync.
Yes — building the seating plan, adding tables and dragging guests onto them all cost nothing, with no limit on how many tables or guests you use.
Yes — the seating chart reads from the same guest list you collect RSVPs with, so each guest’s confirmed party size is what fills the chairs, with nothing to re-enter.
Round, rectangular, oval and a top table for the head of the room. Each can be resized and rotated to match your actual floor plan.
A table that has more guests seated than its stated capacity turns red, so it is visible on the chart itself rather than something you discover by counting chairs on the day.
Yes — drag a guest from one table to another, or back to the unseated list, at any time, and every move can be undone.
Yes — unseated guests stay in their own list until you place them, so the chart always shows exactly how much seating work is left.
Collect RSVPs online for free. Every guest gets a private one-tap link with no account, and replies come back as a confirmed headcount you can cater to.
Track RSVPs in one place: who replied, who has not, how many people are actually coming, and what each guest still needs. Free, with a guest list you can export.
Manage event vendors from one screen: every enquiry, its status, the quote against your budget, and contact details once a vendor confirms. Free.