--- title: "Tableau de Mariage Online Gratuito | Pressed Love" description: "Crea il tableau de mariage trascinando gli invitati, sincronizzato con le conferme RSVP. I tavoli si aggiornano da soli." canonical: "https://pressedlove.com/it/seating-chart" html: "https://pressedlove.com/it/seating-chart" markdown: "https://pressedlove.com/it/seating-chart.md" language: "it" --- Premium feature # A wedding seating chart, built into your invitation Plan your tables with a drag-and-drop seating chart that lives in the same dashboard as your digital invitation — and stays in sync with your guest list and RSVPs automatically. Part of the Premium plan. [Start your invitation](https://pressedlove.com/it/create)[See Premium pricing](https://pressedlove.com/it/pricing) ## One plan for the invitation and the room Most couples manage RSVPs in one place and the seating plan in another — a messaging thread for replies, a spreadsheet for tables. The two never quite agree. Pressed Love keeps them together: the seating chart is built on the exact guest list that powers your RSVP tracking, so the names you are seating are the people who have actually confirmed. Add tables, set their size and shape, and drag each guest into a seat. Plus-ones, dietary notes and declines are all already there. When someone changes their reply, the seating chart reflects it — there is nothing to re-key. ## How the seating chart works 1. 1 ### Collect RSVPs Guests reply through your invitation. Confirmed guests and plus-ones build your live guest list. 2. 2 ### Add your tables Create tables, name them and set the seat count for each — round, long or head table. 3. 3 ### Drag guests into seats Drag names from the guest list onto seats. Move anyone between tables with a single drag. 4. 4 ### Adjust until the day Late changes and cancellations update the chart instantly, so the plan is always current. ## Seating chart — frequently asked questions ### Is the seating chart included in every plan? The drag-and-drop seating chart is part of the Premium plan (€575), alongside the planner checklist, budget tracker and custom theming. Starter (€49) covers the published invitation itself; Essential (€175) adds RSVP tracking and the guest dashboard; Premium adds the full set of planning tools on top. ### Does the seating chart update when guests RSVP? Yes. The seating chart is built on the same guest list as your RSVP tracking, so confirmed guests, plus-ones and declines all flow through automatically. You are always arranging real, up-to-date numbers — not a spreadsheet that drifts out of date. ### Can I drag and drop guests between tables? Yes. You add tables, name them, set how many seats each holds, and drag guests from your list onto a seat. Moving a guest from one table to another is a single drag — no re-typing, no re-numbering. ### Do guests see the seating chart? It is yours to plan privately in the dashboard. You decide whether to keep it internal or share a clean, guest-facing view so people can find their table when they arrive. ### Why not just use a spreadsheet? A spreadsheet does not know who has actually replied. Because the Pressed Love seating chart and your RSVPs are the same data, every change to attendance is reflected instantly — and the whole plan lives in the same place as the invitation you already sent. ### How do I make a wedding seating chart? Wait until your RSVP deadline has passed, then work in this order: fix the head table, place the immovable guests (parents, grandparents, anyone with an access need), seat your largest groups as whole blocks, then place the leftover singles and plus-ones by adding them to a warm, sociable table. Finish with a balance pass — sides, ages, noise — and a check on dietary and accessibility notes. In the Pressed Love seating chart you do this by dragging names from your confirmed guest list onto tables you have drawn on the room floor. ### Is there a free wedding seating chart maker? Designing and previewing a Pressed Love invitation is free — you only pay when you publish. The drag-and-drop seating chart itself is part of the Premium plan (€575, one-time, lifetime access, no subscription). If you want a genuinely free route, our printable wedding seating chart template covers the paper-and-pencil method, and it works fine for weddings under about 60 guests. ### How many guests fit at a round table? A 152 cm (5 ft) round seats 8 comfortably. A 180 cm (6 ft) round seats 10 comfortably and 11 at a squeeze. The underlying rule is roughly 60 cm of table edge per guest, so a 180 cm round gives you about 5.65 m of edge — nine to ten places with room for elbows, glasses and a handbag. ### How many guests fit at a long banquet table? Allow 60 cm per guest per side. A 244 cm (8 ft) trestle seats 4 per side, so 8 with nobody on the ends and 10 if you use both ends. A 12 m banquet run seats about 40 people, 20 per side. Long tables use more floor length and less floor width than rounds, so they suit narrow rooms, marquees and barns. ### When should I finalise the seating chart? Draft it as soon as your RSVP deadline passes — usually 3 to 4 weeks before the wedding. Finalise it 7 to 10 days out, after the caterer headcount is locked at around 14 days. Leave one spare seat per table until the last week; late declines and unexpected plus-ones are normal, and a chart with slack absorbs them without a rebuild. ### Where do you seat divorced parents at a wedding? Give each parent their own host table of equal status, roughly equidistant from the head table, with their own friendly relatives around them. Do not seat them together unless they have explicitly said they are happy to be. If a parent has remarried, their partner sits with them. Keep both tables out of each other's direct sightline during the speeches. ### Do I need a seating chart, escort cards and place cards? Rarely all three. A seating chart display assigns guests to tables, escort cards do the same job as portable cards guests carry to their seat, and place cards assign an exact chair. For a buffet or family-style meal, a chart alone is enough. For a plated meal with pre-ordered courses, use a chart plus place cards so the kitchen knows which dish belongs to which chair. ### Does the seating chart update when guests change their RSVP? Yes. The seating chart is built on the same guest list that powers your RSVP tracking, so a decline frees the seat, a new confirmation appears in the unseated list, and a household that replies for three occupies three seats rather than one row. Nothing is re-keyed by hand, and there is no second spreadsheet to keep in step. [See what Premium includes](https://pressedlove.com/it/pricing) A wedding seating chart is the plan that tells every guest which table they belong at — and, at a plated dinner, which chair. The hard part is not drawing the tables. It is keeping the plan honest while replies keep changing. What follows is the working method: how the seating chart maker itself behaves, the layout maths for rounds and banquet tables, the order to seat a room in, and what to do with the groups that make couples put the whole job off. ## How the wedding seating chart maker works The Pressed Love seating chart is a room planner, not a list. You draw the floor, then you seat it. 1. **Add tables.** Choose round or rectangular, name each one (“Top table”, “Table 4”, “Oleander”), and set how many seats it holds. Drag the tables around the floor until the plan matches the shape of your actual room. 2. **Seat guests by dragging.** Your confirmed guests sit in a rail beside the floor. Drag a name onto a table and it takes a seat. Move someone between tables with one drag — no renumbering, no re-typing. 3. **Let auto-seat do the first pass.** Auto-seat groups guests by the group they belong to, places the biggest groups first so they are not split by smaller ones, keeps every plus-one directly beside the person who brought them, and offers the head table to anyone marked VIP. It shows you the result as a preview before anything is applied, so you can reject it and keep your own plan. 4. **Lock what is settled.** A locked guest is never moved by a later auto-seat pass. Lock your parents and your head table early and stop worrying about them. 5. **Share or print the final chart.** A read-only version can be shared as a link for the venue, the planner or the guests themselves, and printed as an entrance display. Because the chart lives in the same dashboard as your invitation, there is one guest list for everything — the invitation you [send by WhatsApp](https://pressedlove.com/it/whatsapp-wedding-invitation), the replies you collect, and the room you are arranging. ## Free wedding seating chart maker Straight answer, because most pages dodge this one. You can design your whole invitation and preview it in full for free — payment only happens at the moment you publish. The seating chart, though, is one of the planning tools in the [Premium plan](https://pressedlove.com/it/pricing) (€575, paid once, lifetime access, no subscription and no per-guest coins). It is not a free standalone seating chart app, and we would rather say so than waste your afternoon. If free is the requirement, two honest options. For weddings up to roughly 60 guests, paper genuinely works: our [printable wedding seating chart template](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/wedding-seating-chart-template) gives you the table grid and the checklist, and sticky notes on a kitchen table beat any software for a small room. Above about 80 guests, the reason to pay for a tool is not the drawing — it is the recount. Every reply that changes forces you to redo arithmetic you have already done, and that is where an evening disappears. ## Seating chart layouts that work Table shape decides how many people each guest can actually talk to. Rounds give everyone eight or nine conversational neighbours. Long banquet tables give everyone two neighbours and one person opposite — more intimate, less circulation. Mixed layouts put a long head table across the top with rounds below it, which is the most common compromise. The maths is simple: allow about **60 cm of table edge per guest**.
TableComfortableSqueezeTables for 100 guests
152 cm (5 ft) round8913
180 cm (6 ft) round101110
244 cm (8 ft) trestle8 (4 per side)10 (with ends)13
12 m banquet run40 (20 per side)442 runs + a head table
Two rules that matter more than the table count. First, leave **at least 1.4 m between table edges** — that is two chairs pushed back plus a server walking through, and venues that skip it end up with a room nobody can cross during the speeches. Second, plan for roughly **1.5 to 1.9 m² of floor per seated guest** before you add a dance floor, a band, a bar or a cake table. If your venue quotes a capacity that assumes standing, it is not a dining capacity. On the head table, you have three choices: a sweetheart table for two (simplest, and it lets both families host their own tables), a head table of 8 to 12 with the wedding party, or a long top table with parents. Decide this first — every other table is positioned relative to it. ## Seating a wedding: the order to do it in Most couples start with the hardest guest and stall. Start with the fixed points instead, and the difficult cases end up with fewer places they can go — which makes the decision for you. 1. **Wait for the RSVP deadline.** Seating an unconfirmed list is work you will throw away. Set the deadline 3 to 4 weeks out — see our guide on [when to send wedding invitations](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/when-to-send-wedding-invitations) for the full timeline. 2. **Place the head table.** Sweetheart, wedding party or top table — then position it where the room can see it during speeches. 3. **Place the anchors.** Parents, grandparents, officiant, and anyone with an access need: near an exit, away from the speakers, step-free route to the toilets. These people move last, so seat them first and lock them. 4. **Seat groups as whole blocks, largest first.** A table works when it contains one group who already know each other, plus one or two sociable bridges. It fails when it contains five pairs who have never met. 5. **Place the ragged edges.** Leftover singles, colleagues you invited individually, plus-ones you have never met. Add them to the warmest table with space, never to a table of leftovers. 6. **Balance the room.** Both families should have equally good tables. Older guests belong away from the band; the loudest table belongs near the dance floor. 7. **Run the checks.** Dietary requirements, high chairs, wheelchair space, and one spare seat per table for late changes. 8. **Publish and brief.** Send the venue and caterer the final chart 7 to 10 days out, after the headcount locks at around 14 days. ## Where to seat difficult groups **Divorced or estranged parents.** Two host tables of equal status, roughly equidistant from the head table, each with their own supportive relatives. Never seat them together unless they have said in words that they are happy with it. Remarried parents sit with their partner. Keep the two tables out of each other’s direct sightline so nobody is watching anybody else during the speeches. **Colleagues.** One work table, with a partner or an outgoing friend seated in as a bridge, works far better than scattering four colleagues across four tables of strangers. Be careful mixing people who manage each other — nobody relaxes at the table with their boss. **Children.** Under-3s sit with their parents, always. A children’s table is only worth it with four or more children of similar age and an adult or older cousin nominated to supervise; otherwise put each child beside their parent. Teenagers dislike the children’s table more than anyone — seat them with the adults. Put children near an exit for the inevitable early escape, and away from the speakers. **Plus-ones you have never met.** They sit beside the person who brought them — not opposite, not one seat along. If their partner is on the head table, the plus-one needs a table where at least two people will actively talk to them. **Single guests.** Do not build a singles table. It is obvious from the doorway and it makes everyone at it self-conscious. Distribute single guests into groups where they already know one person. **Guests who cannot be near each other.** Different tables, different sightlines, and not back-to-back — a 1.4 m gap between table edges is not a buffer if two chairs meet in the middle of it. ## Seating charts that update with your RSVPs This is the part a spreadsheet cannot do, and it is the reason the chart lives inside the invitation rather than beside it. Your seating chart and your [RSVP tracking](https://pressedlove.com/it/why-digital) are the same guest list, so: - **A decline frees the seat immediately.** No hunting through a spreadsheet to find which table that guest was on. - **A new confirmation appears as unseated.** You can see, at any moment, exactly who still has nowhere to sit. - **Capacity is counted in people, not rows.** A household that replies for three takes three seats. A ten-seat table with one couple already seated has eight seats free, not nine — the arithmetic that quietly ruins spreadsheets is handled for you. - **Plus-ones stay attached to the guest who brought them.** They are never orphaned onto another table by an automatic pass. - **Dietary notes and tags travel with the name.** When you hand the chart to the caterer, the requirements are already on it. - **Locked assignments are respected.** Anything you have settled stays settled, however many times the rest of the plan changes. The practical effect: you stop maintaining two versions of the truth. Every late change your guests make — and there will be several in the final fortnight — lands in one place. ## Seating chart vs escort cards vs place cards These three get used interchangeably and they are not the same thing.
FormatWhat it assignsWhere it livesBest for
Seating chartGuest → tableOne display at the entrance (or a shared link)Most weddings; buffet and family-style
Escort cardsGuest → tableIndividual cards guests collect and carryLarge rooms where one display would cause a queue
Place cardsGuest → exact chairOn the table settingPlated meals with pre-ordered courses; formal dinners
You do not need all three. A chart plus place cards is the standard pairing for a plated dinner, because the kitchen needs to know which dish goes to which chair. A chart on its own is enough for a buffet. Escort cards replace the chart rather than supplementing it — pick one or the other, or guests will read both and trust neither. The digital version of the entrance display is a shared link or a QR code: guests look their name up on their phone and see their table, and you can still print the same chart for the door. If you are already sending a [save-the-date](https://pressedlove.com/it/save-the-date) and invitation digitally, this is one fewer thing at the printer — the trade-off is covered in more depth in [digital vs paper wedding invitations](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/digital-vs-paper-wedding-invitations). Ready to plan the room? [Start your invitation](https://pressedlove.com/it/create) — designing and previewing is free, you can [browse the templates](https://pressedlove.com/it/templates) first, and the seating chart is waiting in the same dashboard when you are ready for it. If you are still writing the invitation itself, our [wedding invitation wording examples](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/wedding-invitation-wording-examples) will get you there faster. --- [Site-wide AI corpus](https://pressedlove.com/llms.txt)