I develop a wedding guest seating widget with card dragging

Manual guest seating takes hours spent on cards, stickers and endless lists that still have to be redone at the last moment. I make interactive widgets for wedding agency websites and venues that turn this process into dragging a guest's card with a mouse or finger to the right table — without a single sheet of paper.

Behind each widget lies not a picture but logic that really helps with planning. The widget remembers neighborhood preferences: who needs to sit next to whom, and who needs to be kept apart due to family circumstances, and highlights the conflict right at the moment of card dragging. Next to each table you can see an exact counter of available seats that recalculates automatically, so you simply can't reseat an eleventh guest at a table for ten people.

I assemble such widgets as a light embedded block that works equally well both on the organizer's computer and on a tablet that the ceremony manager walks around the hall with on the day of the event.

What's included in the development:
— dragging guest cards between tables and into a general pool
— accounting for neighborhood preferences with visual warning about conflict
— automatic counter of available seats at each table
— guest list import and seating scheme export
— responsive layout for tablet at the venue