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How many tables
do I need?
Table count is arithmetic. Floor area is where venues and hosts routinely disagree — because one of them is counting the walkways and the other is not.
How many tables do I need for my guests?
Divide your seated guest count by the seats per table and round up. For floor area, allow roughly 10m² per round table of ten — that figure includes the chair pull-out and the walkway around it. A venue quoting bare square metres is quoting a number you cannot actually seat to.
Work it out.
Your room
Runs entirely in your browser. Confirm the final layout with your venue — every room has pillars, doors and a dance floor this cannot know about.
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Seats per table, and what each shape does to the room.
| Shape | Usual seats | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Round, 152cm | 8 | Everyone can see everyone. The most conversational. |
| Round, 183cm | 10 | The standard. Ten is the most common wedding table. |
| Long trestle | 8 per 2.4m | Dramatic and space-efficient. You talk to four people all night. |
| Square | 8 | Formal and unusual. Slightly less efficient than round. |
Squeezing an eleventh seat onto a table of ten is possible and is regretted at the meal — elbows, not chairs, are the constraint.
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Common questions
Does this include the dance floor?
Round or long tables?
How many spare seats should I plan?
Then build the plan itself.
Table count is the easy half. Evorrah's seating works from constraints in plain English — who hosts a table, who must not share one — applied against the live reply list.
See how seating works