Wedding Planner AI Assistant vs Headtable

Wedding Planner AI Assistant is the wedding seating chart maker that grew into an all-in-one wedding planning app. Draw the reception floor plan, seat every guest by drag & drop or in one tap with automatic seating, print the table plan for the venue — then manage the guest list and RSVPs, checklist, budget and timeline in the same project, with your partner, family or a professional wedding planner, on iPhone, iPad and the free web app at planning.wedding. NEW: AUTOMATIC SEATING • One button seats your whole guest list in a second — by role, closest to the couple first • The maid of honor and best man take the couple's sides, then the wedding party, parents, relatives and friends • Families always sit together, at one table • Fill the free seats or reseat everyone; the whole seating plan is one Undo away • Then add the final polish: drag a guest onto another guest to swap them, or onto a free seat to move them RECEPTION SEATING CHART • Tables of any shape — round, banquet, long rectangular, square, curved and custom — with the seats you need • The head table or sweetheart table, a dance floor, stage, bar, buffet, trees and décor; rulers to check the real distances • Drag & drop guests onto seats, number seats and tables automatically, hide empty seats, rotate and resize tables with two fingers • Guest train: the next guests to seat wait beside the chart — drag them onto a table or a seat • Swap seated guests with one drag; undo and redo every step; duplicate tables • Meal choices and dietary needs shown on the seating plan for the caterer CEREMONY SEATING • Rows of chairs with an aisle and the wedding arch — the same guests, the same drag & drop • The ceremony layout lives next to the reception layout in one project TABLE PLAN TO PRINT • Print-ready PDF in poster sizes: the seated table plan, an empty floor plan, a catering plan with every meal, per-table details and the guest list by table • Share it with the venue, the caterer and your wedding planner in one tap GUEST LIST & RSVP • Track invitations, RSVPs, meals and dietary needs; design digital invites with the free wedding invitation maker on the web • Import guests from a spreadsheet with AI assistance — names, families and roles are recognized for you • Collect responses online through your wedding website and see them instantly • Group guests by family, side and role: bride, groom, parents, bridesmaids, groomsmen, friends • Export the guest list as PDF or XLS CHECKLIST, BUDGET & TIMELINE • Wedding checklist templates, month by month, plus a wedding countdown on your free wedding website • Budget calculator: planned and actual costs by category, payments, due dates and who pays • Event itinerary for the wedding day: ceremony, reception, speeches, first dance, minute by minute • Venues and vendors: dates, locations, weather for the date, contacts, notes and photos on one line PLAN TOGETHER • Real-time sync between iPhone, iPad and the web app — every change appears everywhere instantly • Invite family, friends or your planner to collaborate — no account needed for guests • Share a link or a QR code; a wedding planner can manage several weddings from one account AND MORE • Overview: an infographic of the whole celebration — guests, budget, timeline and progress at a glance • Use a wedding photo QR code on the web to collect guests' pictures in your album; save notes for speeches and vows • Not only weddings: birthdays, anniversaries, corporate events and any party with a table plan • Multiple languages, Sign in with Apple • Free to start — no sign-up required The free web app at planning.wedding also creates your wedding website, place cards, escort cards, table numbers, menus, welcome signs and programs — all from the same guest list and seating chart. Your projects are securely stored in the cloud and instantly synced across devices. The planning tools are free; Premium unlocks print-ready exports and extra features.

Design your floor plan to scale, collect RSVPs online and seat every guest — in one app, for one price. Headtable is the seating chart planner for weddings, receptions, banquets and parties, from a dinner party to 100 tables. Lay out the room, seat guests on the floor plan or from a list of tables, plan with your partner and print a chart worthy of the day — offline, with no account. THE FLOOR PLAN • Enter your room's size and plan to scale — Headtable flags tables that sit too close • Set up the whole room in one step from your guest count and table size, up to 100 tables, and save a room to reuse for your next event • Round, oval, square, head and sweetheart tables, banquets up to 60 chairs, one-sided or joined tables • Dance floor, DJ booth, bar, cake and gift tables, stage; trace your venue from a photo or floor plan (Pro) SEATING • Switch between the floor plan and a list of tables with every guest's name • Drag a guest onto any seat, or tap them to pick a table by how full it is and where their group sits • Go to any table by name, search any guest, and tap anyone at a table to edit their group, meal, dietary needs, VIP status or note • Seat the head table first; Auto-arrange fills the rest, keeps families together and follows your rules • Keep-together and keep-apart rules that nudge you, and never block you • Lock finished tables, mix up the seats at a dinner party, undo anything, and keep unseated guests in a tray • No list yet? Type the names you know and each guest takes a seat as you type GUEST LIST • Groups (the Smiths +2), RSVP status, meal choice, dietary needs, VIPs, kids' meals and a note on any guest • Paste a whole list, import from Contacts, or open a CSV or Excel file, including exports from Zola, The Knot and Joy • Export your guest list as a CSV at any time, free PLAN TOGETHER • Up to four people — your partner, a parent, your planner — edit the same plan from their own phones, even on another Apple Account, and changes appear in seconds. Inviting needs Pro; joining is free INVITATIONS & RSVP • Send each guest or household a private link; they reply without an app or account: coming or not, their meal, allergies, and a plus-one if you allow it • Replies land on your guest list and free the seats of anyone who can't come FOR THE CATERER AND THE DAY • Per-table view with meal counts, and a printed chart color-coded by meal • A web page for your venue and caterer with every table, meal and dietary need, updated as you change seats (Pro) • One tap turns the finished chart into a PDF for Messages, WhatsApp or Mail • Send each guest their seat in a personal text or email: "You're at Table 4" • Day-of check-in at the door, from one phone or several • Quiet reminders 8, 4 and 2 weeks out, so late replies and plus-ones still get a seat PRINT & SHARE • The full print pack (Pro): a clean seating chart, per-table lists, an alphabetical escort list and a caterer meal summary in eight designs, plus place cards and table-number cards • A find-my-seat QR code (Pro): guests scan it at the door, type their name and see their table • A free Story card: your names, date and design as a picture for Instagram or TikTok • Several events, and Duplicate to try a second seating plan (Pro) WORKS OFFLINE, PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your guest list and chart live on your iPhone or iPad, so Headtable works with no connection. Invitation links, the find-my-seat and venue pages and a shared plan upload only what they need — never phone numbers or emails — and are deleted 30 days after the event. No account, no ads, no tracking. HONEST PRICING Free: your whole guest list, unlimited tables and rules, up to 50 seated guests, invitations with your first 8 replies, your chart as a PDF, and joining a shared plan. Headtable Pro, one purchase with Family Sharing, seats everyone and adds every reply, the full print pack, the QR code, the venue page, a venue photo, planning together and extra events. No subscription, ever.