Rococo table naming idea

felysion

I am completely stumped for my reception table names. I am having a Marie Antionette/Rococo themed wedding. The groomsmen are getting sword as their gift, the escort cards are origami roses, we are having family crest cookies, and after dinner we are having a masquarde ball. I would like to incorporate the theme into the names for our tables, but cannot thing of how to do that. Please help!!

Here is my inspiration board to help. The ballroom is an actually picture from my venue, the paper roses is a picture I took, and the ring will be mine after one more payment.

MrsLiggett7

People in the inner circle of Marie Antoinette?? You might have to look it up to get the right names.

Or countries that France dealt with during her reign.

French desserts she might have eaten.

artbyallie

I'm picturing poupons (dolls used by seamstresses to show the different gowns they could make) on each table. Maybe name the tables for people, as suggested? Mme du Barry, her first rival at court, or Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, the Rococo artist who did a lot of her portraits. Of course, I'm a history nut and I'd include a little note about the person on the table.

Maybe rooms from the palaces instead? Like the Hall of Mirrors and the rooms of the king and queen, listed here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles#Features_of_the_Palace_of_Versailles

felysion

Sadly few at my wedding would care to read anything about the court. I think it would be wasted research.

The different palaces and rooms of Versailles sound like interesting ideas.

I was acutally thinking about nameing the tables after different countries but my fiance was not too excited with that idea.






Another idea that was given to me was to use the colors of the origami roses to color code the tables. I cannot image how a rainbow of table colors would look though.

Kate61487

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_reception-ideas_rococo-table-naming-idea?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:5Discussion:59ccfd08-5c4e-4854-859c-84657047fe95Post:4ac69c0e-aeb1-4300-a950-2deed2fcfdde">Re: Rococo table naming idea</a>:
[QUOTE]You could always use numbers:  un, deux, trois, quatre....
Posted by CMGr[/QUOTE]

This.  Especially if you are having a fairly large wedding your guests might find it difficult to navigate with arbitrarily named tables. 

artbyallie

I like the French numbers idea, too, if you have more than 10 or so tables.

felysion

The numbers are an interesting idea. I wanted to stay away from numbered tables, but having them in French is a nice touch. We will have approximately 9 tables.