Mrs. Raspberry, DC/New York
Age and Occupation in 07: 24, Owner/Chief Creative Director
Fiance's Age in 07: 24, Special Investigator for the government
Engagement Date: August 5, 2006
Wedding Date: July 2007
Venue: The Roycroft Inn, East Aurora NY
About Me: I love wedding and event planning. I am having a great time with all of my DIY projects and can't wait to share them with all of the WeddingBee Readers (some have to wait until after our wedding)! Other favorites include: cooking, running, tennis, knitting and making crafts. Mr. Raspberry and I also have two dogs - Gewurz, a 2 year old
yellow lab and Stella, a 1 year old old cock-a poo.
Icons For Tablecards
March 5th, 2007 @ 2:00 pm by Mrs. Raspberry
We decided not use numbers to identify the tables, because we don’t want our guests to feel like they are ranked in importance.
Since we are getting married in upstate New York, but actually live in DC, we thought this was a great way of pulling DC into the wedding. We went around the city taking pictures of our favorite places (mostly monuments) and then I antiqued them in photoshop. Then I simply mounted them on antique gold backing. I even let our mom’s pick which table they wanted to be. 
I haven’t yet figured out a creative way to put them into the placecards, but I am working on it.
What are you using to identify your tables?
14 Responses to “Icons For Tablecards”
What if you did just the image on one half and then their names on the other (Think of like a bullet point, but the image instead of the dot). Don’t put what icon it is, make your guests match them themselves. That way, they have fun and get to look at all the different pictures you guys took!
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!
Miss Raspberry I’m getting married in upstate NY too!
Our wedding is going to be more rustic - at a winery and actually held in a barn-like building, and FI LOVES gardening, so the tables are going to be named for herbs - Lavendar, Basil, Oregano, Mint, etc. I’m still trying to figure out how I can swing it to have the actual herbs incorporated into the centerpieces!
We are doing the standard - table 1, 2, 3, etc.. but with the design used on our invites as the background.
Miss Raspberry, I’m doin something very similar! But all my pix will be monuments from Paris, mostly ones that we took during our trip there, when we got engaged. I am also turning them sepia color, and mounting them on cardstock backing =)
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 naming our tables after our favorite artists and photographers. I’m printing out 8 x 10 prints with our favorite works and the artists names on them, then putting them on little table easels. Our favors are also doubling as escort cards. We are giving out little paint cans filled with Jelly Belly jellybeans. When the guests open the can (with paint can keys we are providing), a little card that says “You are seated with Damien Hirst (or Richard Avedon, or Chuck Close, etc)” will be inside, along with an image of the matching artwork! I’m making them work for their table assignments!
We’re not doing placecards.
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?
what a great idea!! i don’t want to use numbers either and didn’t know what else to use as substitutes and now i know. =)
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.
I really like them, the sepia color is very nice. I also like the idea of NOT using numbers since people might get a complex about it.
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. : )
What a great idea!
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.
