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As for us, I don’t think we’re going to do placecards. We will have the tables reserved for family and wedding party, but the rest will be free-for-all. Our wedding is more semi-formal than all-out formal, so rather than have everyone designated (a place for everything and everything in it’s place) we figure we’ll let people seat themselves how they want to. It was the same way at my FH’s sister’s wedding, and it worked out well because I don’t think she would have placed the people together that wound up sitting together!

We are doing the standard - table 1, 2, 3, etc.. but with the design used on our invites as the background.

what a great idea! I think I’ll have to take some monument pictures in STL now..hehe thanks for the great idea!

We are doing the exact same thing! We are both live in DC, but we are getting married in Philadelphia (his hometown). Since it is an “out-of-town” wedding for me as well, we are doing a Philadelphia theme, so we have picked 22 notable locations in the Philadelphia area, and took pictures of the two of us at each of the locations, and are using them for our table names.
I have, however, been warned that in addition to the table names, we should ALSO number them, because the numbers give individuals an idea of where they are, since tables are usually numbered in order (ie if you are looking for table 18, it is probably nowhere near table 2) and if you just name them, guests will be wandering around for quite a while looking for their table since there is no way to know if they are looking in the right area or not! Just a suggestion — or maybe you could do them in alphabetical order and inform guests that they are arranged in that way?

Hmm… I was thinking of using favorite songs of ours (I was thinking the table card could have a few of the lyrics from the song as well printed on it…)

OR our favorite 80s movies, since we met in middle school during the 80s. My boyfriend would probably prefer we add quotes, since movie trivia is big in his family.

Beautiful. We were thinking of doing this with vintage NYC postcards, and providing each guest/couple/family an envelope (their names on the outside, arranged with all the other envelopes in alpha order on the table in the ballroom foyer) with the identical postcard (unmarked) inside, as a memento to keep. But we ran out of time and did table numbers on gorgeous little engraved Crane’s escort cards ($12 for 25 cards — reasonable, easy and in perfect taste).

The numbers is no big deal. Our caterer wanted the numbers arranged in an arc anyway, so there may be no correlation about who’s at table #1. Guests have been to enough weddings not to have a personal crisis over this.

Next party, we will seat all guests in order of height, birthdays, alphabetical order, or something else completely arbitrary so they know they are all equally important to us. : )

We are also just reserving front tables and allowing people to seat themselves. It’s not a very common practice to have assigned seating in Latin weddings and a good chunk of our guests would be confused by that and then we’d have our American guests arriving at their “assigned” tables and not being able to sit down. Reminds me of a bad theater dilema where you have to ask people to see their tickets… Then again, our American guests are going to be a little confused at first without seating assignments, there’s just no winning, sigh.