Forever Farrah vs Social Tables

Social Tables (Cvent) is professional event diagramming with auto-seating and live collaboration. Forever Farrah is built for couples. An honest comparison.

In short

Social Tables, part of Cvent, is event diagramming software for planners, caterers and venues: to-scale floor plans, one-click auto-seating and live collaboration with clients. It has a free tier a couple can use. Forever Farrah is built for the couple, and the chart goes on to the guests, who scan a QR code on the day to find their table.

Choose Forever Farrah if

You are the couple, you want the seating chart tied to your RSVPs, and you want guests to look up their own table on the day.

Choose Social Tables if

You are a planner, caterer or venue, or your venue already diagrams the room in Social Tables and wants you working in the same file.

Forever Farrah and Social Tables compared
	Forever Farrah	Social Tables
Built for	Couples planning one wedding	Event planners, caterers and venues
Cost model	Free tier, then one time per wedding	Free tier, then business plans
Floor plan	Drag-and-drop room with real table shapes and capacities	Professional diagramming with table shapes and dimensions
Automatic seating	Auto-seat your guest list, then adjust	Auto-seat in one click
Collaboration	Co-planner invites on the wedding	Clients and vendors view or edit in real time
RSVPs and wedding website	Included on every tier	Not offered
Guests find their seat	Scan a QR code, search their name, see their table on the room map	Not documented
Reception features	Photos, playlist requests, trivia, well wishes, voice and video notes	Not offered

Where Social Tables is better

It is a genuinely professional diagramming tool. If you need a to-scale layout that a venue signs off on, it is the stronger product.
Live collaboration with clients and vendors on the same diagram is more developed than our co-planner invites.
It works for every kind of event, not just weddings, and many venues and caterers already use it.

Where Forever Farrah is better

It is built around the couple: RSVPs, meal choices and plus-ones feed straight into the seating chart.
Guests use the chart. They scan one QR code, search their name and see their table on the room you designed, and it updates after the code is printed.
A wedding website, and the reception features (photos, song requests, trivia), come with it.
Less to learn. A couple can have a working chart the same evening without professional training.

Frequently asked questions

Is Social Tables free for a wedding?

Social Tables has a free tier that a couple can use to make a seating chart, with paid plans for professionals. Forever Farrah is free for seating up to 50 guests, then a one-time payment per wedding.

My venue uses Social Tables. Should I use it too?

If your venue wants to work in the same diagram, it can make sense. Many couples let the venue keep the official room layout and use Forever Farrah for the guest list, RSVPs and the seat finder guests use on the day.

Does Social Tables have a QR code seating chart for guests?

We could not find a guest-facing seat finder documented on Social Tables' own pages. Forever Farrah gives every wedding a QR code guests scan to find their table on the floor plan.

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.