Weddingbee Blog

Miss Kiwi - this is what we are doing - I can send the artwork if you like. For the signs we have different leaves and their names, in silhouette printed on luxe cream paper in brown then mounted to a chocolate stock.

The holders are, if you can see this….wicker/grapevine balls - you can get them at Michaels, Jamali Gardens, etc. - which we glued to a grapevine napkin ring (to make the bottom flat) and cut, with scissors, a slit into the top of - then the signs slide, snug, into the slit. Its kinda earthy, kinda interesting - and took forever to come up with so please, feel free to steal!

We also did the votive holders with vellum for the escort cards - with the leaf and leaf name on them…

I don’t know if any of you have seen the documentary movie What the Bleep Do We Know. Well, in that movie there is a section that talks about water crystals and how they take on different crystal formations depending on what wish the water has been blessed with (you’d have to watch for this to fully make sense). Anyway, the crystals look like differently shaped snowflakes, they’re really pretty! So we’re going to name our tables after the wishes that the water have been blessed with and put a photo of the snowflake crystal formation on the table name sign. So we’ll have table names like Love, Gratitude, Peace, etc.

bb, that is Mr. Kiwi’s thought EXACTLY. He LOVES that movie. I feel there would be too many correlations with “nuts” and my family.

Brilliant! We didn’t do anything nearly as creative - we had regular table numbers, but they did match our wedding stationery and wedding colors

Best wishes!

I agree with dorothee that if you don’t specifically put table 1 near the dance floor and table 15 in the back corner no one will think anything of their table numbers. I would also highly recommend that if you use words instead of numbers you go in alphabetical order. It’s a huge pain finding the right table number in a big room, let alone tracking down a word when they’re not in any order at all.

My MOH and her now hubbers are both doctors and toyed with the idea of naming their tables after diseases!

Can you imagine? Hey I am at table Syphilis.

We’re going to be doing our favorite resturaunts. We were thinking about the difficulties finding the tables, so we’re doing the following to help people along:

1. We’ll have two table charts set up, so people can see where their table is.

2. Ushers (and maybe GM) will also be on hand to help the guests

3. We’re going to have the tables of resturaunts in Chicago (where we live) closest to the main doors, and as you head through the ballroom, the resturaunts will be from farther away (first Chicago, than Illinois, then Midwest, then the coasts, and finally our favorite resturaunt in Costa Rica).

Do you think that’s enough?

We’re naming ours after famous chefs. Anthony Bourdain, Julia Childs, Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay, etc, etc…(Fiance is a chef, and I’ve grown to love cooking even more than I did before I met him since we’ve been together, so we have a food theme thing going…)

But I’m really glad Dorothee made mention of the issue of people having a hard time finding their table in those sorts of set-ups. I’ll have to consider working on a chart of some sort, or just doing the alphabetical thing to make it a bit easier…

My cousin did a fall-themed wedding last year and used cutouts of leaves with the name of the table (named after trees) on the left. She had a really cute display for the escort “leaves” in that she had a good size log lying down on the table and all the leaves were pinned into the log. It was verrrry cute and lots of fun to find your tree!