Built a wedding seating planner

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.

→ oturmayageldik.com