We early on talked about doing table numbers that are places that we've been together, since we travel quite a bit. Then two of my cousins and one of my friends did that, and we decided it had been done. My sister had candy types as their table names, and little candy dishes on the table, which was delicious and fun, since they always have a candy dish in their apartment. We might do this, except people were supposedly confused as to why they were seated at the "Rolo" table. Table numbers are one of those things it's so easy to make crafty and fun and meaningful and special to the couple, so the pressure is on!
Some of the ideas I've had?
- Naming tables after buildings at the University of Maryland. We get to put some Terrapin Pride out there, and maybe write a little about the building or the significance of it to us on the back of the card, in case guests are interested. For example: "The Diner: Offering to buy Mark dinner in the North Campus Dining Hall to "use up her points" was one way that Ellie managed to finally convince Mark to spend some time with her." Or "Stamp Student Union: Mark and Ellie went on several dates here to movies and free school events." Bonus assignment - we could go take pictures at the UMD campus of us and the buildings. Or we use the set of postcards I have from UMD that I've never used, but have.
- Use our engagement pictures and just slap on a number in some kind of opaque format over our smiling faces.
- Make table numbers out of wood, or plants, or acorns glued to wooden plants. Basically, something nature-y is what I'm saying. Name tables after trees, plants, flowers, birds, and other nature-y things.
- Name our tables after streets in Baltimore where we live, work, play, or regularly get stuck in traffic.
- Using white cardstock and printing numbers in large font on them. Preferably something fun from www.dafont.com. Maybe we'll frame them. Otherwise they'll just go on the memo clips I already have from my sister. No, it's not original. But we aren't being graded on originality, are we? If we are being graded at all, originality is about 10% of the grade. 90% is whether people can find their seats. Oh right, and this would be pretty much free/supplies on hand.
What are you going with? Does anybody else share my perhaps uncreative urge to just put numbers on sticks and call it a day?
11 comments:
oh my gawd, i used dafont.com when i was making my save-the-dates and it is AWESOME. i like the university idea!
ohhh, I love when couples give their tables names with some sort of significance to them. all your ideas sound great, especially the university and street names in Baltimore ideas.
since we're not worried about who's sitting where given the ultra casualness of our location, we're not even bothering to do escort cards or table numbers (except for the two reserved tables for the bridal party and parents/grandparents). but if we were going to, I think we'd stick to the nature theme. or use engagement photos. or something funny. haha, really, I have no idea. it's probably a good idea that we won't do them... too many options!
I think we're going to do the travel/location-themed tables; he's from Dublin, Ireland and I'm from Maryland, we live in Toronto, and have been a bunch of places together as well. On the table where the escort cards usually go, I'd like to do something like a big map and then next to each place/table name, list the people sitting at that particular table. Does that make sense? It sounds like a big project though, so not really sure how it would work, but I like the idea.
Great ideas! I've had clients that have used #'s as well as famous love quotes, names of types of trees, and even nicknames they call each other (pookie, peanut, honey,etc) - very cute!
I am literally throwing numbers on sticks and calling it a day. Now, mind you those numbers are cut out of the nice scrapbooking paper that I use throughout the wedding details, but I was throwing so many ideas around for the wedding that this was something I just...didn't care about as much as the other stuff. :)
I am all about being personal and original/creative with table numbers. I thought we would name our tables as well but my fiance was not as into it. So instead, I found this great idea to incorporate our photos along with basic numbers and still make it beautiful. You can see them here:
http://allconsumedbride.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-can-do-it-and-i-love-it.html
I think we are going to do table numbers and have a photo of each of us at that age corresponding to the table's number. That way, we're hoping people move around and mingle to check out the other pictures. It's almost standard in my family/friends to do a slideshow of some sort, but we figured this was a creative way around that and solves our table number dilemma.
I like the idea you had with naming it after UMD locales that were important to you and Mark. Also because I'm a huge ACC fan (soon-to-be VT grad).
Of course, I'm the sort who will do large crayon numbers on an index card, stick it in a binder clip, and call it a day.
We've talked about naming the tables after Spanish love words (beso, carino, amor, carino, etc) because I want to incorporate more Spanish into our wedding since most of our ceremony is in English and our invites and save the dates were in English.
I think we will put the words on pretty paper and stick them in ornate picture frames but the $1 frames I bought at Michaels are likely too small.
I think this is creative and I do worry people will feel bad about being sat at the highest number table.
AND I LOVE ROLOS
We have played around with the idea of using old 45 records. Either making new labels with our fav bands/songs or just using the old ones, (if we can find good ones for cheap).
I can't figure exactly what kind of stand we could use ...
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