Tables

Adding a table to your seating chart starts with clicking Add in the toolbar. A panel opens with six tabs — Rectangular, Long Table, Circle, Sweetheart, Serpentine, and Venue — each showing a visual preview of every available size. Choose the table that matches what your venue is providing, and Folia places it on the canvas at real-world scale relative to the grid.

Round Tables

Round tables are the most common choice for wedding receptions. Folia includes six sizes ranging from an intimate 36-inch cocktail-style table up to a 72-inch banquet round that seats a full party of twelve. Every size lets you adjust the seat count after placing the table — open the guest panel and use the Seats dropdown. That's useful when your venue is mixing table sizes but you want a consistent count (for example, eight guests at both 60-inch and 66-inch rounds), or when you need fewer seats for legroom or wheelchair access.

Rectangular Tables

Rectangular tables come in 6-foot and 8-foot lengths. Some seat guests only along the long sides, while others include head seats at the short ends. Which type you choose determines whether you'll see head seat options when assigning guests — more on that in the Removing Heads of Table section below.

Long Feast / Harvest / Kings Tables

Feast tables — also called harvest tables or kings tables — are wide 48-inch tables designed for communal dining. Unlike standard rectangular tables that seat guests only along their length, feast tables place two seats side by side at each short end, so guests sit all the way around the table in a more social arrangement.

Folia offers four feast table lengths to match your venue's furniture:

To add a feast table, click Add, go to the Rectangular tab, and select the feast table size that matches your setup (listed under Feasting Tables). The table appears on the canvas with seats along both long sides and two seats paired at each short end. You can rotate it to fit your room layout by selecting it and using the rotation handle.

Custom Kings Table

If none of the preset feast lengths match your venue's furniture, build your own with the Kings Table option in the Long Table tab. Clicking it opens a builder where you set the exact dimensions and seat layout:

• Length — anywhere from 3 feet up to 60 feet, covering long banquet runs assembled from multiple sections. Type a value in inches or drag the slider.
• Width — from 24 inches up to 60 inches, also draggable in the preview. A table is never wider than it is long, so shorter tables cap the width accordingly.
• Seats per side — set the top and bottom sides independently, including zero. Use the plus and minus buttons or type the count directly, which is quicker on long tables. Folia enforces a comfortable 24 inches per guest (the industry standard for plated dinner seating), so the maximum seats per side updates as you change the length.
• Head seats — choose 0, 1, or 2 seats for each short end independently. Two seats per end (like a feast table) requires a width greater than 36 inches.

The preview shows the table at scale with every seat position and displays each dimension in feet and inches. When you confirm, the table is placed on the canvas and you assign guests the same way as any other table. Kings Tables rotate like any other rectangular table — select one and use the rotation handle, which snaps in 5-degree increments. Rotation carries through to the exported chart.

To change a Kings Table after it's placed, double-click it to open the guest panel and click Edit Table. Guests keep their seats wherever the slot still exists in the new layout; guests whose seats are removed return to the unassigned list.

Kings Table seats can also be removed individually from the guest panel. Unlike standard rectangular tables, removing a seat leaves a visible gap — the remaining seats never shift, so your carefully aligned place settings stay put.

Sweetheart Tables

A sweetheart table is a small table set apart for the couple alone — just two seats, placed prominently at the head of the room. Folia offers six shapes so you can match the style of your reception: round, rectangular, and half-moon (D-shaped). The half-moon shape is especially popular because the flat back faces the room, giving guests an unobstructed view of the couple.

Optional Table Numbers

Sweetheart tables are unnumbered by default — they're typically called out by name rather than by number on a seating chart. If your layout uses numbered tables throughout and you want the sweetheart table included in that sequence, you can enable a table number from within the table's guest panel. Open the panel by double-clicking the table, then toggle on Show Table Number and enter the number you want displayed.

Removing Heads of Table

On rectangular and feast tables that include head seats, you have full control over whether those end seats are used. This matters when a table is pushed against a wall, when you want more legroom at the ends, or when the room layout simply doesn't allow seating at one side.

To configure head seats, double-click the table to open its guest panel and find the Head Seats option. You can set it to:

• Both — seats at both short ends are active (default)
• Left Only — only the left-end seat(s) are active
• Right Only — only the right-end seat(s) are active
• None — no end seats; the table seats guests only along its long sides

When you hide head seats, any guests already assigned to those positions are automatically unassigned and returned to the unassigned guest list. If you re-enable those seats later, they come back empty and ready to be assigned again.

Custom Kings Tables don't use this selector — their head seats are configured per end (0, 1, or 2 seats) in the table builder, reachable via Edit Table in the guest panel.

Serpentine Tables

Serpentine tables are quarter-round arc pieces that connect end-to-end to form curves, S-runs, or a full ring. They're popular for dramatic long dining tables that wind through a space, for circular buffet or bar configurations, and for eye-catching centerpiece arrangements.

Folia ships two sizes, both 90-degree arcs 30 inches deep. The 60" × 30" quarter-round has a 60-inch outer radius, and four pieces joined together form a 10-foot (120") round table with a 60-inch open center. The 72" × 30" quarter-round is the larger of the two: four pieces make a 12-foot (144") ring with an 84-inch center.

Placing and assembling pieces

To add a serpentine piece, click Add, go to the Serpentine tab, and select the size you want. Each piece is placed individually on the canvas. To assemble a configuration:

• C-run (continuous arc): place two or more pieces in the same orientation, end-to-end, curving in the same direction. Two pieces form a 180-degree semicircle; four form a full ring.
• S-run (winding table): alternate the Flip toggle between pieces so that convex meets concave, creating a wave or serpentine shape. Rotation alone cannot produce an S-run — the flip is required.
• Ring: place four identical (unflipped) pieces and rotate each by 90-degree increments (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°). Folia groups them on the exported seating chart as a single connected table.

Rotating pieces

Select a piece and use the rotation handle, or type a specific angle in the toolbar. For ring and C-run assemblies, 90-degree increments are the most natural.

Flipping a piece

The Flip toggle in the guest panel mirrors the piece horizontally, converting it from a standard orientation to its mirror image. Use this for S-run configurations where every other piece needs to be flipped.

Adjusting seat counts

Each serpentine piece has two arcs — an outer arc and an inner arc — each with its own seat count. Open the guest panel by double-clicking a piece, and use the dropdowns to set:

• Outer Arc — 2 to 5 seats on the 60-inch piece (default 3), 2 to 6 on the 72-inch piece (default 4)
• Inner Arc — 1 seat on the 60-inch piece, 1 or 2 on the 72-inch piece (default 2)

Changing either count rebuilds the seats for that arc while preserving any guest assignments that still fit. When you remove an individual seat from the guest panel, the remaining seats on that arc re-center automatically so spacing stays even. The outer arc always keeps at least 2 seats; the inner arc always keeps at least 1.

Outer-arc seating is roomier than it looks on paper. Five guests on the 60-inch piece (or six on the 72-inch) get about 19 inches of table edge each, which sounds tight, but because the arc curves away from them their chairs fan outward and end up a comfortable 24 inches apart. Folia only adjusts spacing in those two crowded-outer cases, where the end chairs shift out by a couple of inches so they just reach the ends of the piece. In an S-run that space is free, since the neighbouring piece curves away from you at the join. In a full ring, where two outer arcs meet, keep the count at four (60") or five (72") if you want the chairs at the join to have the same elbow room as everyone else.

How serpentine tables export

On the exported seating chart, adjacent serpentine pieces are grouped into a single section — whether they form a C-run, an S-run, or a full ring. The detail page shows all guests across the connected run with the combined seat count. The overview floor plan still shows each piece in its exact placed position.

Cocktail Tables

The cocktail table (24-inch round) lives under the Venue tab. It's a decorative element — it holds zero seats and does not appear in your guest assignment panel. Use it to mark cocktail hour stations, lounge areas, or welcome table spots on your floor plan.

Cocktail tables work like sweetheart tables when it comes to numbering: they arrive unnumbered and stay that way unless you want otherwise. Open the table and flip the Table Number switch on if you'd rather number it. Either way they sit outside the main numbering sequence, so adding or removing one never shifts the numbers on your seated tables. Most people just give theirs a name instead — something like "Patio Cocktail" to tell them apart.