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Start from a finished poster design, then fill it with your own tables. Two wedding seating chart templates are built into the free tool. You do not download a blank file and fight with text boxes. You seat the guests, and the template draws the sign.
Each template is a full poster, not a color swatch. Names are set in vector type with the fonts embedded in the PDF, at 24×36 inches, 18×24 inches, and A2. The same chart can be exported in either look. Open one to see your names in it.
Linden suits a garden, a barn with flowers, or any reception that wants the couple's names in script. Atelier is the evening look: a dark board that reads from across a ballroom if you print it large. Neither is a copy of a listing on a design marketplace. They were drawn for this product.
A pretty frame will not fix a chart that splits a couple or hides a wheelchair seat at the back. Build the floor plan first. Import the guest list from a CSV, an Excel file, or a paste, and map the columns: name, party or group, plus-one, meal, and an accessibility note. A chart holds up to 500 guests. Add round, rectangle, and long tables and set how many seats each one has. Drag guests onto seats on a computer. On a phone, tap the guest, then tap the seat.
If a household should sit together, add a keep-together rule. If two people should not share a table, add a keep-apart rule. Auto-seat fills open seats and reports anyone it could not place, which usually means the group is larger than every remaining table or a keep-apart rule blocks the only open seats. Run the conflict check before you export. It lists unassigned guests, overfull tables, parties that landed on more than one table, and broken keep-apart rules. You can still export with warnings on the screen. They are there so you see them, not so the file is blocked.
The template does not rearrange those seats. It only changes how the finished list is drawn: the ground color, the couple's names, the rules around the page, and the type used for guests. Switch from Linden to Atelier after the seating is done if the room is darker than you expected. The assignments stay.
The maker is free without an account. The draft stays in the browser. Sign in with a magic link when you want the same chart on another phone, or when you are ready to pay. The $29 charge is once per chart. It unlocks four exports, all rendered on the server from that chart:
Until you pay, the builder shows a watermarked low-resolution preview. That preview is for choosing a template. It is not the file you send to a printer. The paid poster is the vector PDF.
If you are still deciding how to group the room, read the seating chart ideas before you lock the tables. The sign guide lists the three sizes this export produces and wording that fits them. The place card page covers the other half of the same $29 file: the cards guests pick up on the way to the table the poster just named.
Yes. The guest list, tables, and rules stay put. The template only changes the poster's paper color, type, and frame. Pick another design in the builder before you pay, and the $29 file uses the one you selected.
No. The builder shows a watermarked preview so you can judge the design. The poster PDF, the card sheet, the caterer spreadsheet, and the seat-finder QR are created after the $29 payment, from the chart you saved.
They are original layouts for this seating chart maker. They are not copies of a marketplace design, and they are not sized for a branded label sheet. Cards print on a plain sheet with crop marks.