Seating chart

A wedding seating chart app that shows its work.

Most seating tools let you drag names onto circles and hope. Wendus starts from the constraints that actually decide a seating chart — who must stay apart, who belongs together, what each table holds, and where the venue says tables cannot go — and explains every tradeoff in the generated plan.

  • Set table capacities and roles, including a reserved head table.
  • Mark households as must separate, prefer separate, or prefer together.
  • Pin households to tables with must-sit and cannot-sit rules.
  • Review hard violations, soft tradeoffs, and under-filled tables.
  • Move groups manually and see any new conflicts immediately.
  • Seat by household groups, so families never get split by accident.
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Wendus Seating screen showing tables, hard violations, and soft tradeoffs for a generated seating plan. Wendus Seating screen showing venue-sketch restricted-area rules applied to group-to-table seating.

Venue-aware seating

The floor plan becomes a seating rule.

Import the PDF or image the venue sends, calibrate it to feet or meters, and place measured tables and zones. Restricted areas on the sketch — a speaker stack, a service corridor — turn into hard cannot-sit rules the seating plan must respect.

  • Import venue PDF or image floor plans from Files.
  • Calibrate the map scale so table footprints are measured, not guessed.
  • Mark stages, dance floors, entrances, and restricted areas.
  • Restricted zones apply to seating automatically.
Wendus Venue screen on iPad showing a calibrated imported venue map sketch with measured tables and zones.

FAQ

Seating chart questions

Does Wendus assign seating automatically?

Wendus generates a group-to-table plan from your tables, capacities, and rules, then lists hard violations, soft tradeoffs, and under-filled tables for review instead of hiding them.

Can I keep two families apart or seat friends together?

Yes. Mark pairs as must separate, prefer separate, or prefer together, and pin households to tables with must-sit and cannot-sit rules. Hard rules always take priority.

Do I need a venue floor plan?

No. Seating works from the guest list, tables, and rules alone. A venue sketch adds restricted-area rules on top when you have one.

What happens when I move a group manually?

The group locks to that table and the plan recomputes, so any rule the move breaks appears immediately as a hard violation.