Place card maker
Turn a guest list into printed place cards without retyping a single name. Tent or flat, with the table number and meal choice, on a sheet you cut and fold. Free PDF, no watermark, no account.
Your guest list
Drop an .xlsx or .csv here, paste from Google Sheets, or . You can also .
Tables
Rules
Paste or drop your guest list, then choose how many tables the room has. The chart appears here.
Print and export
Place cards, escort cards and table signs are three different things
A place card sits at the setting and says who that chair belongs to. An escort card, or the escort list at the door, tells a guest which table to walk to. A table sign is the number in the middle of the table that they are walking towards. A wedding usually needs all three and they all come from the same list, which is why retyping names into a template three times is the usual way this goes wrong.
Here all three are generated from one guest list. Change a name once and every card, list and sign changes with it.
What the sheets look like
Place cards are laid out at the sizes card stock is actually sold in: 3.5 by 2 inches flat, or 3.5 by 4 inches folded down to 3.5 by 2 for a tent card. Tent cards print the name on both halves, with the upper half upside down, so that once folded the name reads correctly from the guest's side and from across the table. Cut lines are solid and the fold line is dashed.
The card carries the guest name in a serif face, the table number under it, and the meal choice under that if your list had a meal column - which is what the kitchen and the servers actually read off the card.
Sorted so you can hand them out
Cards come out grouped by table and in seat order, so a stack straight off the printer can be carried round the room table by table. The escort list is sorted the other way, by surname, because that is the order a guest scans it in at the door.
One honest limitation
The PDF uses the fonts every PDF reader has built in, which is why the files are a few kilobytes and need no upload. Those fonts cover English and the Western European languages. If a name on your list uses characters outside that set - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Devanagari - the tool tells you which names are affected before you print, rather than printing question marks. For those lists, export the PNG chart or print the cards from the browser instead.
Questions
- Do I need a specific card stock?
- No. The sheets are sized to standard 3.5 by 2 inch place cards, but they print on plain letter or A4 paper with cut lines, so any card stock that goes through your printer works.
- Are the cards watermarked?
- No. There is no watermark on the cards themselves. The footer of the cut sheet carries a single line of cutting instructions, and it falls outside the cards.
- Can I print place cards without making a seating chart first?
- You need table assignments for the card to be useful, since the card carries a table number. Paste the list, set the number of tables, solve, and the cards come out of the same page.
- Can the meal choice go on the card?
- Yes, and it is on by default when your list has a meal, entree or dietary column. You can turn it off.
- How many can I print?
- As many as you like, as many times as you like. There is no export limit and no account.