Seating Chart on the TV: a Self-Service "Find Your Table" That Updates Live

The line at the place-card table

You pictured greeting your guests as they came in. What actually happens: there's a six-deep line at the alphabetized place-card display because Aunt Carol can't find "Marguerite" in the row marked M.

The fix isn't more place cards. It's the same chart you already drew, on a screen big enough that two people can read it at once.

What this is

Brunchie's Presenter Mode has a Seating display option. Open the seating chart in the app, tap Present on TV, pick Seating, and the chart auto-fits to whatever TV you have at the venue. People walk up, look at the screen, find their name and table number, walk on.

The chart on screen is the same one you've been editing all month. Drag a guest to a different table on your phone five minutes before doors open and the screen updates without a reload.

Why "live" is the part that matters

Printed boards go stale. Every wedding planner has the story:

• The bride's grandmother breaks her hip the day-of and can't make it. The chart now has a hole at table 3.
• The DJ's wife came after all. She's not on the chart.
• Someone just realized you sat the divorced couple at the same table.

A printed easel ignores all three. A live screen reflects every change you make on your phone, instantly. You spend the morning reshuffling table 6 in the bridal suite and walk into the lobby to a chart that already shows the new arrangement.

The auto-assigner respects must-sit-together and must-not-sit-together constraints so when you do reshuffle mid-day, the AI keeps the rules — you don't have to redo work you already did.

Setup is short

1. Build out your chart on the Seating tab. Tables, capacities, drag and drop or auto-assign — whichever works for your event.
2. Day-of, on your phone: open the hangout, tap Present on TV, pick Seating.
3. On the TV: scan the QR shown on your remote page or just type the kiosk URL into the TV's browser.
4. The chart auto-fits to fill the screen. Done.

You don't need a special TV or specific app. Smart TVs have a browser built in. Older TVs, plug a laptop in or use a Chromecast / Fire TV that runs a browser.

Tips

Place it where the line forms. The point of doing this is to break up the bottleneck at the entrance. Put the screen where guests already are when they arrive — usually by the cocktail bar, or right inside the reception room door.

Pair it with the print export. Some guests don't read screens. The PDF export gives you a printable easel poster that you can prop nearby for the same chart. Both surfaces work in tandem.

Keep the host phone charged. You're going to be using it for everything else too — checking posts, switching presenter modes, taking calls from the venue manager. Bring a charger.

Vendors can flip it too. Add your photographer or coordinator as a cohost and they can switch the screen between modes during the event without grabbing your phone.

What about the day-of "I forgot to seat someone" problem

The same modal lives inside the seating chart now. Scroll the Attendees sidebar past Unassigned + Assigned and you'll see an Invite button. Add the new guest from there, drag them to a seat, the screen on the wall updates live. No round-trip back to the hangout page.

That fix shipped 2026-04-26 — small thing, big mid-event time saver.

What this isn't

It's not a substitute for the printed PDF export — print one for guests who want to look at paper, prop it on an easel, hand it to your day-of coordinator. The TV is for the live, self-service "find your table" surface. The PDF is for the take-home, hand-around, send-it-to-the-venue-coordinator surface. Run both.

See also

• Seating Charts Guide — building the chart in the first place
• Print Your Seating Chart for the Easel — One Click — the matching PDF export
• Photo Slideshow on the TV — the other Presenter Mode worth running
• Presenter Mode Guide — full walkthrough, all three modes