Guides

Before you sit down to the seating plan

Short, specific pieces about the parts of organising a wedding that usually take the most evenings. No preamble about the happiest day of your life.

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The wedding seating plan

A table-count calculator, how many fit at a round table, what order to seat guests in, and what to do about divorced parents.

Free wedding QR code generator

Make a free, print-ready vector QR code, then see how big it needs to be and what makes it scan by candlelight.

The wedding day timeline

A sample schedule with times for a church, civil or outdoor ceremony, and how much slack to leave for each part.

Photos from wedding guests

How to collect photos from guests’ phones into one gallery, without a WhatsApp group or an app to install.

Late-night wedding transport

Shuttle, taxi or rideshare — when to book transport and what to give guests so nobody is stranded at 4 a.m.

Wedding entertainment ideas

A photo booth, a bar instead of bottles on the tables, a kids’ corner, cold sparklers — ideas that work.

How much alcohol for a wedding

An interactive calculator adjusted for how many guests drink, the season, an open bar and a next-day party.

Guest dietary needs

How to collect dietary information, pass it to the caterer and discreetly mark the seat at the table.

Wedding cost per guest

Which costs are fixed, which grow with every guest, and how to work out a budget per person.

A bilingual wedding

What to translate, how to describe the day’s schedule and how to give international guests one current set of information.

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