Wedding Charts vs Planning.wedding
Planning.wedding offers a free seating chart as part of a larger planning suite. Wedding Charts is a dedicated seating tool. Here is how they compare.
Choose Planning.wedding if
- You want one free place for your guest list, RSVPs, checklist, budget and website
- A simple seating chart is enough
Choose Wedding Charts if
- Seating is the hard part and you want automatic seating with keep-apart rules
- You want a to-scale floor plan of the venue
- You need print-ready stationery and a QR page where guests find their seat
Feature by feature
| Feature | Wedding Charts | Planning.wedding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 a year (Couple, 7 days free); design free | Free, per their seating chart page |
| Part of a planning suite | No, seating only | Yes: guest list, RSVPs, checklist, budget, website, vendors |
| Guest list import | Excel (.xlsx, .xls), OpenDocument and CSV | Excel |
| Floor plan PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Seating poster, escort cards, place cards | All three | Table cards and name cards |
| Excel export for the caterer | Workbook with meal counts per table | Excel export of the guest list |
| Automatic seating with keep-apart rules | Yes | Not listed |
| Real-time collaboration | Partner or planner; simultaneous edits merge | Yes, with planners and vendors |
| Guest QR seat finder | Included with Couple | Not listed |
Planning.wedding details are from planning.wedding as published in October 2026. Where their site doesn’t say, we write “Not listed.” Spot something out of date? Tell us at support and we’ll fix it.
Free suite versus dedicated tool
Planning.wedding’s seating chart is free and sits alongside the rest of your planning. If you already use it for your guest list, that is a real convenience. Wedding Charts does one job: getting every guest into the right seat and onto paper, with automatic seating, a to-scale room and stationery for the day.
Switching
Export your guest list to Excel from Planning.wedding, then choose Import Excel or CSV in Wedding Charts.
Other comparisons
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Questions
Is Planning.wedding’s seating chart free?
Their seating chart page says it is free with no sign-up required. Wedding Charts is free to design in the browser; saving and downloads come with Couple at $19 a year.
Can I import my Planning.wedding guest list?
Yes. Export it to Excel and import the file into Wedding Charts; names, groups, meals and RSVPs are matched automatically.