How to seat 300+ guests around family politics

At 300, 400, 500 guests, seating stops being a puzzle and becomes politics. This aunt cannot sit near that cousin, these two families must be close to the couple, this friend group has to be together, and one wrong placement becomes a story told for years. Doing it by hand on a paper chart or a spreadsheet is slow, error-prone, and terrifying to change.

How to seat at scale

• Encode the rules — keep-together and keep-apart as actual constraints, not sticky notes.
• Let the tool arrange — auto-seat that respects the rules and flags conflicts.
• See violations in red — never discover a seating disaster at the reception.
• Change safely — move one table without silently breaking another rule.

How Mezze does it

Mezze lets you set keep-together and keep-apart rules per guest. Auto-seat arranges hundreds of guests around those constraints and flags any conflict in red, so a violation is caught on screen, not at dinner. Rearranging is safe because the rules are always checked.

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