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Built a wedding seating planner because spreadsheets felt emotionally offensive for weddings.
Atelier - Wedding Seating Studio
- aka oturmayageldik.com
A calm, editorial canvas for designing wedding seating arrangements.
You can:
• drag tables onto an infinite canvas
• rotate and lock layouts
• assign guests to seats
• track bride/groom sides
• manage RSVPs, dietary notes, VIPs
• export print-ready seating plans
What surprised me while building it:
Most wedding tools optimize for “event management.”
But seating charts are actually a spatial + social design problem.
You’re balancing:
- families
- politics
- friendships
- divorced couples
- VIPs
- dietary constraints
- table dynamics
…usually inside Excel.
So I built a tool focused only on that moment.
No giant wedding suite.
No cluttered dashboards.
Just one calm canvas.
Also:
• fully localized in English + Turkish
• mobile-friendly
• undo/redo history
• export to image / print / email
• side-awareness for bride vs groom seating
The name “Oturmaya Geldik” is a Turkish joke/reference roughly meaning:
“we came here to sit.”
Which felt appropriate.
Would love feedback from all. Thanks.
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