About ActClassy

ActClassy is a small, independent site built around six free etiquette tools, plus a blog, a set of longer guides, and a museum — covering dining and hosting, seating and table settings, weddings and gift-giving, workplace manners, and the everyday moments in between. It is supported by on-page advertising, not by subscriptions, sponsorships, or a partnership with any etiquette authority or brand.

How the tools are built

None of the tools on this site are powered by AI or a live database of etiquette rulings. Each one is a small, fixed piece of arithmetic or a lookup table built from conventions that show up repeatedly in etiquette writing, and each does exactly one job:

• Seating Arrangement Planner takes your guest count and your seats-per-table, divides one by the other, and rounds up to tell you how many tables to set — a division problem, not a guess.
• Event Budget Calculator adds up whatever line items you enter — venue, catering, decor, and so on — and divides the total by your guest count, so you see the cost per head alongside the total.
• Gift Value Calculator splits a total gift budget evenly across however many recipients you list, so a group gift or a holiday list resolves to a fair per-person figure.
• Thank-You Note Timing Guide is a reference lookup rather than a calculation: it returns the customary window for sending a note — from a same-day interview follow-up to the roughly three-month window commonly given for wedding gifts — based on windows widely cited in etiquette writing.
• Dress Code Analyzer maps a dress code term — white tie, black tie, cocktail, business, smart casual — to its formality tier and what that tier usually means to wear, using a fixed reference table rather than anything generated on the fly.
• Wine Pairing Guide matches a dish category to a classic pairing — steak to Cabernet, fish to Sauvignon Blanc, dessert to Moscato — drawn from long-standing pairing conventions rather than a live sommelier’s judgment.

Where a tool depends on convention rather than arithmetic — the note-timing windows, the dress code tiers, the wine pairings — it is only as good as the convention itself, and conventions are exactly the kind of thing that vary by region, generation, and household. We picked the versions that show up most consistently across etiquette references, but we don’t claim they are the only correct answer for your table.

What this is — and isn’t

ActClassy is an independent, advertising-supported resource. It is not affiliated with any etiquette authority, wine region, dress-code standard, or event-planning brand it references. The tools above give estimates and general guidance, not professional advice — for anything with real legal, financial, medical, HR, or safety stakes, talk to a qualified professional who knows your situation. Etiquette itself is a matter of custom, not law: what counts as correct at one table, wedding, or workplace can be different at the next, and everything here is a starting point for your own judgment, not a rulebook.

Beyond the tools, the site carries a blog of etiquette articles, a learn section with longer guides, and The Etiquette Museum, a set of galleries on the history of dining, dress, and celebration, drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons entries.

Questions, corrections, or a convention we got wrong? See the Contact page.