Congrats jerpint!

How many people are attending? Please feel free to use this tool if it happens to work for you. Would love to hear if you actually do use this.

But get some rest, and enjoy tomorrow!

Yea for most of the social conditions, you can probably already use the "Separate/Link" feature.

Similar to hermitcrab's comment, I'm not sure about the right/left handed-ness. As I'm currently at table level, rather than seat level, I think it's something that can be figured out at the table level later.

Thanks for the feedback!

Definitely valuable constraints!

I'll definitely have to think about how to incorporate such things in a simple to use manner.

Thanks a lot for all the development of Optaplanner over the years! Your work is really amazing and valuable.

If you want to give Timefold a try locally - it should about twice as fast, still the open source version - try our single Maven or Gradle command on your codebase: https://timefold.ai/upgrade-optaplanner-to-timefold

If you're interested in writing a blog around your Wedding Seating Planner (it looks very cool!), ping me on LinkedIn and we'll happily push it on our socials.

As others have mentioned, this is very culturally dependent. And culture isn't necessarily country or region. Different types of people like different things. This particular app is designed for those times when you need more assignment, for whatever reason.

Hope that makes sense!

Oh great! Are there any other features/abilities you might need to be able to use this?

I appreciate the feedback!

Thanks for the insights! At the moment, the app is targeted at "table level" rather than "seat level".

This already has different table sizes.

There's already a way to mark who should/not sit together

For location, I'm thinking of adding a draggable UI to put tables in relative places. But at first, I don't want to make this too complex for people to use.

Also, thinking of adding attributes to both groups and tables to get people to what they need (bathrooms, dance floor etc).

There's definitely already lots of apps/sites that let people do the pretty stuff, but they seem really manual at the moment.

Let me know if you have any more thoughts! Thanks for looking!

I agree that having serendipity adds to the mix. This tool is more an iterative tool, meant to help guide the decisions, rather than being prescriptive.

Yea, I would love to hear from one of those aunty/uncles! But I don't know any offhand. You have any pointers?

Thanks for giving the tool a try!

Ask an Indian friend to connect you with the uncle or aunt who talks the most about getting them married. That's usually the same person in charge of wedding logistics, invitations and stuff. I think they're just generally incentivized by Gulab Jamuns and Rasagullas.

Yea, I went with Optaplanner, which is definitely more "user friendly".

Prioritization of parties is on the roadmap, related to table ranking. Were you thinking of prioritization in a different manner?

How were you thinking about "someone getting left out"?

Thanks for the thoughts!

Do any of you happen to have any thoughts wrgds to OR-tools vs optaplanner? I've been trying to use OR-tools for a vehicle routing problem (with lots of constraints) and found it is really bad at finding solutions in our case, and it has only auto-gen documentation more or less, very sparse set of examples and a single dev supporting on the forums it seems (still thankful for that it's open source and HAS some support!).

Take a look at the two Timefold (continuation/fork of OptaPlanner, open source Apache License) quickstarts for vehicle routing: https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-quickstarts/tree/stab...

We regularly answer questions on StackOverflow if you run into any issues with it.

Disclaimer: I am part of the team behind OptaPlanner/Timefold.