For UK weddings
Your wedding seating plan, online.
A free, drag-and-drop wedding table planner that pulls in your RSVP guests automatically. Configure tables, seat your guests, and let them find their own seat on the day.
What’s included
Everything you need, nothing you don’t.
Drag and drop
Drag guests from your RSVP list to any table. Reassign in seconds when plans change.
RSVPs flow in automatically
Every confirmed RSVP appears in the guest list ready to seat. No duplicate data entry.
Any table shape or size
Round, long, square — any number of seats. Add a dance floor. Mark a head or top table.
Top table support
Single top table, sweetheart table or long estate. Pick what fits your wedding — not what fits the software.
Guests find their own seat
On the day, your wedding page lets guests search their name to find their table. No one hovers over the plan squinting.
Print-ready view
Open a print-ready view of the finished plan — use it for a welcome sign or hand it to your venue.
How it works
Three steps. One seating plan.
01
Add your tables
Pick shape, size, and position. Round, long, square — any combination. Drop in a head or top table.
02
Drag guests into seats
Your RSVP guests appear automatically. Drag them to tables. Shuffle in seconds when plans change.
03
Publish to your wedding site
Guests type their name on your wedding page to find their seat. No printed plan required — though you can export one.
The planner
Drag, drop, done.
Your guest list is populated the moment each RSVP comes in. Drag names onto tables and reshape seats or rearrange the whole room — the layout updates live as you go. No spreadsheets, no index cards, no fiddly PowerPoint diagrams at 1am.
Meal choices sit next to each guest, and anyone who flagged a dietary follow-up shows up with a marker so you don’t lose track across tables. A CSV export goes to your caterer. A print-ready view goes on the welcome easel.
UK seating tradition
Top table, family, kids — who sits where?
The top table
UK wedding tradition puts the couple in the middle of a long top table, flanked by the parents, best man, chief bridesmaid and sometimes grandparents. The typical order (left to right, facing the room) is: chief bridesmaid, groom's father, bride's mother, groom, bride, bride's father, groom's mother, best man.
Sweetheart tables
A popular modern alternative is a sweetheart table — just the couple at a small table of their own, with parents and wedding party seated with friends at nearby round tables. Less stiff, less formality, and everyone gets to chat with people they actually chose.
Family-style long tables
If your venue has long estate tables, seating the whole wedding party together with parents and immediate family works well — it keeps the structure of a top table without the parade-on-a-stage feeling. Ode supports this layout out of the box.
Kids and teenagers
Small children usually sit next to a parent. Older kids and teens often do best on a dedicated younger table — put a confident older cousin at the head and let them run it. Ode lets you tag guests by age bracket so these tables come together naturally.
Divorced parents
Either seat them at opposite ends of a long top table (standard), or skip the top table entirely and seat each parent at their own table with their partner and friends. The second option is usually the kinder one — and Ode doesn't force tradition on you.
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