Table names

I have been pondering this for a while, we finally settled on words to do with marriage, so we have

honesty
loyalty
commitment
love


and I have already forgotten the other two! ?

Thanks for your help girls xxx

Oh yeah cherish and respect!

Hey mines on valentines day, so was thinking of-

roses
love hearts
cupid
cherub
st valentine
romantic
love birds and doves

any other ideas???

Someone also mentioned the word 'love' in different languages which i thot was good

Others have used football teams, players, holidays they have been on etc

We are big National Trust fans, so we are using the names of our favourite NT properties.

I was out for dinner with OH the other night and we were discussing this very subject. We were gonna go with the traditional '1,2,3.....etc', but after much discussion, decided it'd be a good talking point for our guests, so think we're gonna have proper table names now.

Yes, some of the suggestions were ridiculous, or wholly inapropriate, and at one point i was laughing so much that half the people in the restaurant were staring at 'the weird girl in the corner'!!?

Anyhoo.....seeing as tho h2b and i are both science nerds [:I], we're thinking of going with the theme of 'famous scientists', eg, darwin, hawking, rutherford......the list continues!! OH even suggested a fact sheet for each table about 'their' scientist and a quiz at the end.?

My H2B wants to name our tables after what he considers to be Liverpool Fc legends, so people will be sat at tables named after footballers ?

I was doing a bit of research earlier for a sample table plan, I googled 'wedding table names' and one of the top links was a long thread from Y&YW forum - had loads of good ideas.
Claire x

We're having the names of our grandparents. All of mine are dead and h2b only has one left (who will, of course, be sitting at the table named after him!) so we thought this would be a nice way of acknowledging them. Our tables will be:
Edward
Elizabeth
William
Clara
Reginald
Florence
Clifford
Worked out really well as both h2b's grandmothers were Elizabeth and we have seven tables. ?

Our friends had a blue colour scheme and named their tables :-
baby
ice
royal
navy etc...

My h2b is a doctor, so were having famous doctors.

Dr Karl Kennedy (Neighbours)
Dr Drake Ramore (Friends)
Dr Watson (Sherlock Holmes)
Dr Albert Einstein
Dr Fox?

Call us strange, but fiancee and I have gone for names of cheeses!

Bit different and we love cheese, so thought we may as well.

Went to wedding this weekend where they went for names of places which are significant which I think's already been suggested (first flat, uni, where met etc).

Dan

quote:Originally posted by Melancholie
We're having the names of our grandparents. All of mine are dead and h2b only has one left (who will, of course, be sitting at the table named after him!) so we thought this would be a nice way of acknowledging them. Our tables will be:
Edward
Elizabeth
William
Clara
Reginald
Florence
Clifford
Worked out really well as both h2b's grandmothers were Elizabeth and we have seven tables. ?

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Awh that's a nice idea........
h2b sitting beside me as I type suggested Classic Cars, Beaches or Places we have visited and really like (St Ives..)

E

quote:Originally posted by lovehearts2009
Has anyone got some good ideas for table names? I was thinking of places where we have lived/ gone to uni/ visited

or

names of sweets as we both have a sweet tooth!!!

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The wedding I went to last week had the GRAND SLAM as a table theme! It was in WALES, and they had the tables named after all 6 nations and the scores of the matches and highlighted details on each one. The way it was done was very T_I_C, but made everyone smile.?

I had different constellations because we had a star theme. We tried to choose ones that also had some link with us eg. Ursa Major (Great Bear) because ex-H's nickname was Bungle and Lyra (The Lyre) because I'm musical.

Aw I like this thread! The grandparents thing is a really nice idea.

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We had places we'd been to together, but there are loads more ideas here

http://www.toptableplanner.com/table_names.php

I liked the idea of granparents names and suggested it to OH, then he pointed out that it might be a bit weird having a table named after a grandparent he hasnt seen in years, who is still alive and yet has not been invited to the wedding! oops! ?

We've consideed all sorts:

- Holiday destinations we've been to
- Variations on our purple colour theme (Violet, Plum, Aubergine, Lilac etc.)
- 'Love' in different languages

We've now chosen but I can't share as IRL friends come on here and it's a surprise!

We are going with car names I think, for something a bit boy-friendly.

This is one of those things that changes daily though.....

Hi we are getting married in a seaside town and so are thinking of having our tables named after beaches eg Saltburn, Whitby, Robin Hoods Bay, South Port etc (all ones we have been to).
xxx

We're having sweets...mainly because we're not having individual favours but are going to put the sweets the table is named after in glasses on the tables instead. A friend had it at her 21st and we really liked it, so we've stolen the idea! A few other people on here are / were doing that too, I think.

We are having film titles for ours.

We had james bond film names- went down really well (hubby a big fan)
we had:
from russia with love
the spy who loved me
for your eyes only
goldfinger(top table!)
etc

We had love in different languages with our top table being Thai (can't remember what it was though) as we went to Thailand on honeymoon. We also had cariad, love, and errr.... oh well, it was two years ago now!?

quote:Originally posted by kentishbride
My H2B wants to name our tables after what he considers to be Liverpool Fc legends, so people will be sat at tables named after footballers ?

id="quote">mine too? we are having Rush, Shankley, etc and top table is Gerrard..

The only thing I would advise using with caution, is any list where there is a possibility of a 'ranking' for example,

Diamond, Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby, Garnet, Opal, Jade, etc
where some people may take the implication that Diamond is better than Jade and consequently more important. However you may want to take advantageous of this, have VERY close relatives or friends on Diamond, and people you hardly know ? on Jade!!!!!

An idea we have seen recently for a musician revolved around the names of composers, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,Haydn, etc

Also were the Groom was a golfer and the Bride 'let' him have a say,? we have seen:
Peeble Beach, Gleneagles, Augusta, St Andrews, Sunningdale, Wentworth,

Michelle ?

AFter reading this thread I have managed to convince the OH to have table names instead of boring old numbers. He (and a lot of his friends) love going surfing, so he thinks it would be good to have names of beaches known for good surf.

We are having villages in Yorkshire. We are getting married in Wales, OH is from Sheffield so to make S family feel involved we have gone for that. OH proposed in Yorkshire.

I love that idea. Our families are scattered, and he proposed on the top of a mountain in france on a snowboarding holiday. So, don't think I could use that idea!

You have just given me a great idea Zippy. Thank you so much. What inspiration!!! My H2B proposed on the Chain Bridge in Budapest so we could have famous bridges! Would that work? xxx

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I love that idea. Our families are scattered, and he proposed on the top of a mountain in france on a snowboarding holiday. So, don't think I could use that idea!

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How about mountains?? The name of the Mountain you were proposed on could be the top table.