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Reception table name Ideas....

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We thought about regular numbers, flowers, shades of our wedding color. Love in Different languages... Any other ideas than that?
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Re: Reception table name Ideas....

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    manateehuggermanateehugger member
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    Pictures of you and FI at different ages, different cities/countries, books, movies, alphabet (A is for...), songs, where you went on dates

    My only thing with table names that aren't numbers or in obvious Alpha order is that it becomes tricky to figure out where your table is (a progression of 1-30 makes more sense than violet - lavender you know?), so I'd make a chart of the table layouts or at least make it a very obvious progression.
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    KD+ARKD+AR member
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    Hmm, thats a good point. My FH is being a party pooper and wants just numbers...I want to be different. LOL Still in negotiations. LOL
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    doeydodoeydo member
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    Characters from different books, different book titles, important dates (date you first met, etc.), sports teams, activities you like to do together, names of places you visited, favourite movies, favourite music artists, titles of your favourite songs, relationship words (cherish, love, etc.), famous couples (real or fictional ie. Jim and Pam), pairings (macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jam, etc.), types of trees, types of wine, or types of dances (ie. foxtrot).
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    theartistformerlyknownastheartistformerlyknownas member
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    I'm a big believer of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Everybody uses numbers because they work! I wouldn't stray too far from numbers or letters, unless maybe you only have 4 or 5 tables and the names will all be visible from the door so people won't have to hunt around for theirs.
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    donethatdonethat member
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    Yes, numbers make it easy for your guests to find their seats, and makes it easy for the staff to serve them.  

    So, I love the idea of numbers ALONG WITH pictures of you and FI at that age....  Table #1 has your age 1 (or approx) pics ....etc....

    I guarantee, your guests will be able to find their seats AND will mingle to see the other pictures!
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    KD+ARKD+AR member
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    That is a GREAT idea DONETHAT! I love it!
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    jenna8984jenna8984 member
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    We are doing cities we've been to with a picture of us in that city. But we only have 8 tables and 60 guests so they won't have to search 20 tables to find theirs. I love the age thing, we just don't have that many pictures from our childhood lol 

                                                                     

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    donethat said:
    Yes, numbers make it easy for your guests to find their seats, and makes it easy for the staff to serve them.  

    So, I love the idea of numbers ALONG WITH pictures of you and FI at that age....  Table #1 has your age 1 (or approx) pics ....etc....

    I guarantee, your guests will be able to find their seats AND will mingle to see the other pictures!
    Ew. I would have to skip from Table 5 right to Table 25 to avoid "the awkward years." Ain't no way I'm displaying any pictures of myself looking like I did back then. Ew ew ew. Nobody in my life told me how awful I looked.
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    singinchick13singinchick13 member
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    You could just use the numbers, and decorate them how you like. Pictures are great, flowers as well, or shades of your wedding colours if you want to separate them this way. I personally think it would be cool to do the numbers large in the center and then in the background have that same number written out in different fonts and languages, kind of like a wallpaper of various scripts/languages. It's not for everyone but I think it would be neat.

    We are attatching a quote to each of our table numbers, but just at the tables. We have chosen to go with a chain theme (joining together, chain of events that brought us together, etc) so all of our quotes will reference the "chain" in some way. 
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    KatWAGKatWAG member
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    We did book, since our reception was in a library. But we added small numbers in the bottom corner to make the tables easier to find.
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    carliealissacarliealissa member
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    donethat said:
    Yes, numbers make it easy for your guests to find their seats, and makes it easy for the staff to serve them.  

    So, I love the idea of numbers ALONG WITH pictures of you and FI at that age....  Table #1 has your age 1 (or approx) pics ....etc....

    I guarantee, your guests will be able to find their seats AND will mingle to see the other pictures!

    I was just going to bring up this idea!! -and ask what you guys thought of it.  I'm considering it, but am really not sure if it's kind of corny/AWish. 

    If it's too much, a similar idea I saw a friend do that I thought was cute was a baby photo of the bride on the ladies' room door and same for the groom/men's.  It was cute without being too in your face with all the photos.

     

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    cassghcassgh member
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    If your creating a seating chart for the wedding, stick with the numbers - it will be so much easier for your guests to find their table.  If guests can sit where ever, have fun with - let each table have its own "theme" to reflect something about you guys as a couple (although, if you are having a ton of tables, this might be tricky as you might start running dry on ideas to use).
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    wandajune6wandajune6 member
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    FI wanted different cars. We talked through it and realized how much work it would be to make the escort cards correspond to tables. We also just found out that our venue will let us use their numbers for free.

    We will be using table numbers.
     
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    A coworker of mine and her FI were huge fans of a certain baseball team, so they had pictures of the lineup and the tables went in order of the numbers on the jerseys. Large wedding, apparently worked out fine! But yeah, if not alpha/numeric, do the number with the fun design. Edit: missing words
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    Jen4948Jen4948 member
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    My own suggestion would be to just use numbers. This is me, but I'm not into "cute" table naming schemes.

    If you use a naming scheme, guests have to walk around all over the place or consult a map to find their tables.  With a number scheme, it's much easier for guests to figure out where their table is.
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    erinlin25erinlin25 member
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    we did car "makes" (Audi, Porche, etc.)  We had them in alpha order along with a number.  Our venue had a seating chart when you entered showing where each table was so it was easy to find/no confusion.   
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    jenijoykjenijoyk member
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    We are having an "Old California" theme wedding and naming each table after a California city. We will probably also attach a number to each table to help people navigate.

    Although, I attended a wedding recently where they named each table after a place where the bride and groom went on a date. They had a map at the front of the room, and given that all guests were smarter than a pile of rocks, everyone was able to look at the map for about 3 seconds and then easily find their table.

    Of course, I guess it depends on how many people and tables you have (or how terribly grumpy your guests are). The wedding I was at was probably around 150 and it was 100% fine.

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    jenijoykjenijoyk member
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    Also, I think you can use table names and not have it be too cutesy. The wedding I referred to above used date locations, and when we talk (fondly) of that wedding we still refer to the fact that we were the Outback Steakhouse Table (the other tables, for the most part, had a tad classier location names). It was one of the many things that make it stand out in my memory as a fun, personalized wedding. Especially given that the couple had the balls to name a table after Outback Steakhouse, which really, is pretty hilarious.

    For our California city tables, we've collected vintage postcards from each location from ebay and our local antique stores, and will use placecard holders to display them on each table. We tried to find used postcards, so that people can read whatever Edward So-and-so wrote home to his Aunt in Kansas when he visited San Diego on holiday in 1947. We're also collecting other old pictures and antique trinkets with the city names on them (i.e., fruit crate labels, street sign, glass bottles, Ghiradelli chocolates for the San Francisco table, etc.).

    Most of our guests are from California and we're going to seat them at tables for cities where they are not from, in hopes they will seek out the table named for their hometown, curious about what little goodies we have from there. We'll see how it goes!

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    We did dates. Starting from DH's birthday (he's older) up until our wedding date. On the back of them we used traditional numbers at our venue's request.
     
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    falsarafalsara member
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    Me and FI were just having this issue the other night. I agree table numbers can be slightly boring so I think we finally decided on Movies that we like.  I think with us it should be fine because even though we have a good sized crowd (150) a lot of our favorite movies are actually trilogies, or series, so we can do  order it Alpha by series and then group the series together, plus I know I will probably have a room layout done on poster board for guests to look at.

                                               

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