Seating plan software recommendations (does such a beast even exist?)

Question

I\'m getting married soon and am busy with the seating plan, and am running into the usual issues of who sits where: X and Y must sit together, but A and B cannot s

Answer 1

This sounds like a constraint satisfaction problem. You should probably check out logic programming systems that are also equipped with constraints-solvers. They're usually like prolog, only they are actually declarative for problems that are soluble by their solvers.

Hopefully there is one that has an easy interface from your favourite language, to get the data in and out.