Mrs. Lovebug, Tucson
Age and Occupation in 06: 31, Writer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Professional Game Show Contestant
Engagement Date: February 18, 2007
Wedding Date: April 19, 2008
Venue: Historic Inn
About Me: Likes: blogging, wikis, semi-colons, cuddling, fragrant flowers, syntax, and spooning. Dislikes: typos, dangling modifiers, flypaper, citronella candles, and run-ons. If I had my druthers, I'd exchange simple vows in a candlelit library. But I lost my druthers long ago...anyone seen them?
Elvis = Lives!
April 27th, 2007 @ 5:25 pm by Mrs. Lovebug
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m going to make my guests earn their cake and bubbly. None of this come-as-you-may, pampered and indulged nonsense. There will be challenges to be met. Obstacles to overcome. Puzzles to…puzzle out.
Take for instance, the table names. This baloney:
is entirely too easy. Enter my favorite online wordscrambler. In three easy steps, you can create your own personalized placecard-to-table puzzles that guests must solve to find their seats.
1. Pop in a phrase like “tie the knot” and to get a list of all possible anagrams.
2. Scan the (sometimes lengthy) list generated until you find a clever, apropos combination. In this case: “to tithe ken.”
3. Put the scrambled phrase on your placecards, the unscrambled one on your table signs, and voila! Mass confusion and befuddlement! Or just compliments on your creativity.
Some wedding-theme phrases and their accompanying anagrams:
ENGAGEMENT RING = gent earning gem
TYING THE KNOT = gotten thy kin
GETTING HITCHED = get thing itched
GO TO THE CHAPEL = each got to help
HERE COMES THE BRIDE = describe thee, homer
MOTHER IN LAW = woman hitler (OK, maybe not such a good idea)
Written in script, even weird phrases like these can look neat. And of course, you can use anything; the longer the phrase, the more options you’ll get. Streets you’ve lived on, countries you’ve visited together, diseases that run in your families…
And if you’ve caught wordscramble fever, check out the Anagram Hall of Fame . But don’t say I sent you. I’ve been banned for overuse.
21 Responses to “Elvis = Lives!”
i love it!
lol this is great! the mil one cracked me up
Anagrams are my absolute worst form of wordplay, and wouldn’t you know the proposal involved one? Little stinker.
We’re already going to have so many puzzles at the wedding and ancillary events, I think one more would be the tipping point.
Pencils, you there? Steal this idea since I can’t.
so fun! i hope you put the answer on the back or something so those who can’t figure it out won’t have to stand all night. 
definitely include the MIL one. ha ha ha! soooo funny.
Would be soooooooooo fun for me!
Tho, I’m picturing the proverbial elderly Asian guests who were already lost with the fruit and LOTR tables… just praying for table numbers (except for #4). : )
Cute idea, but I’m not gonna lie…I’d be one of those guests standing there all night until somebody helped me. I can never figure those things out. Guess I’d have to go without cake and bubbly.
I think its a cute idea too. But I hate anagrams. I am not good at them so that is why I hate them. I would be the last person in the room looking for their table.
addictive!
rings = grins
honeymoon = NEON OOH MY
reception = CON ERE TIP = ENCORE TIP
I went to Taiwan with the fiance’s family about two years ago. WAY too many photos here.
Can I just say…I heart Miss Lovebug! Your sense of humor is fantastic…i love your posts. If you lived near me, I’d totally invite you to my wedding!
I’m making my guests work for their table assignments, but physically, not mentally. (Lord knows that’s asking waaay too much!) Their assignments are in paintcans that they’ll have to use paintcan keys to open! Each card says “You are seated with ‘insert artist’s name here’” and an image of an artwork. I would love to know how many will wander around going, “Are you Andy Warhol? Who is Andy Warhol? Whereever you are, I’m seated with you!!”
So glad I’m not the only one making guests work for their seating assignments!
I wrote questions about my FI– the answers are the table numbers (I actually came up with answers that are actual numbers, but words or phrases would work too). I’m going to put the answers on the inside of the little name tents for those who can’t figure it out. The FI thought I totally lost it!
questions about my FI and I– oops! But, you knew that!
Jenny: brilliant! *Tell* me you’ve got a Van Gogh…post ear lop.
Lovebug–No Van Gogh…keepin it to our fave artists and photogs (I work at the Hirshhorn Museum and he’s a photographer). Actually, Andy Warhol isn’t even there, but he’s more recognizable than Marilyn Minter, John Currin, David LaChappelle, Damien Hirst and Chuck Close. (Google them…you’re in for a treat!) I love contemporary art!
Awesome, I just made a card to be glued to the back of my boring table numbers so the table can pass it around and guess! Something to do while they are waiting.
i would never eat or drink with those clues 
the mil one is simply brilliant 
Becky–the FILs recently returned from a wedding where each table had a list of weird facts about each person sitting at it. Like “who at this table…has met the Queen? …speaks Esperanto? …collects vintage teapots?” etc. It was a great conversation starter for those inevitable mix-and-match tables. You know, the ones where you put all the people you’re not sure what to do with. Plus, the bride and groom say they had a ball finding out all this weird stuff.
MIL = woman hitler…priceless!
wonderful idea to entertain guests and keep them occupied while waiting
it could be a very good ice breaker too when guests do not know one another
