The hard part was never the clock — it's the thinking: who gets along, who can't sit together. Seatery holds all of it, seats every guest, and explains each choice in plain words.
Illustrative — a real screenshot of the seating board goes here.
How it works
A spreadsheet or typed in. Seatery reads your columns and finds the couples and households already hiding in your list.
CSV or typed inIt surfaces the likely connections — shared circles, plus-ones, the people who came as a pair. Confirm, skip, or add your own.
Confirm, skip, or addEvery guest placed, every rule kept, with a plain-English reason behind each seat. Drag anyone to adjust and the chart re-solves around your change.
Drag, export, or printWhat it handles
Keeps the wrong people apart
Divorced parents, exes, an old feud — marked keep-apart and honored on every solve.
Balances every table
Groups and households weighed so no table is one lonely cluster.
Remembers dietary notes
Allergies and meal choices travel with each guest, through to the place cards.
Explains every seat
A plain-English reason on each placement, ready to read aloud at dinner.
Puts a face to every namePro / Planner
Add a photo for any guest; it shows up on the list, the connection map, and the detail drawer.
Covers the rehearsal dinner tooPro and up
Each event gets its own tables and chart, pre-filled from your wedding guest list.
Import
CSV or typed in. Seatery reads your columns, maps them automatically, and helps you spot couples and households so they're easy to group before you start seating.
Drag-to-seat chips · sample
StylizedConnect
StylizedSeatery surfaces likely connections from your guest data. You confirm, skip, or add your own.
Plain-English reasons
Why here?
At the same table as Maya, and with 3 from the college friends group.
Why here?
Far from the speakers — quiet zone for grandparents.
Arrange
Seatery places every guest, respects every rule, and explains its choices. Drag anyone who feels off — or export and print.
Caught early
Conflict caught
Carol and Frank are divorced — Seatery placed them at different tables and flagged the dietary clash before anyone noticed.
Faces, not just names
Upload a photo for any guest. It shows up beside the name, on the connection map, and in the detail drawer.
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Rehearsal dinner, too
Add the rehearsal dinner, day-after brunch, or any other wedding-day event. Each one gets its own tables and seating chart, with your wedding guest list pre-filled so you can trim it to just who's coming. Included on Pro.
A short walkthrough
A real guest list becomes a real floor plan, with the reasoning surfaced as Seatery decides — friends near friends, households together, conflicts kept apart.
Spreadsheets, sticky notes, family politics. Seatery handles the logistics so you can focus on the parts of wedding planning you actually love.
Seat smarter, not harder.