Wedding Blog

Believe it or not, I was never one who had thought too much about my wedding before I had gotten engaged.  Never thought about my e-ring, never thought about my dress, never thought about the theme.  But there was one random thing I did think about prior to getting engaged. Don’t laugh, but that one aspect was what our table names might be! I know, RANDOM, right?! I’d seen personalized tables done at a wedding before and thought it was such a good idea. Whatever our wedding would be like, I knew I wanted our tables names to reveal to our guests a bit about our journey as a couple.

I loved the idea of using “places” for names, since our guests would be “going” to a table. Come reception planning time, and the question became, well, what type of places? We could do places we’ve lived, since we’ve moved around so much. Or places that we’ve been, since we’ve both traveled fairly extensively. We bounced around a bunch of ideas.

Ultimately, we landed on using places of significance to us, that represented either a memorable moment or a period of time in our lives. At first, we tried thinking of one place for every letter of the alphabet, but we found ourselves choosing places that actually weren’t that special just to make it work (I mean, there aren’t that many places in general that begin with the letter Q ).

We came up with a list of places, and wrote a short 2-3 sentence blurb about why that place was special (or rather, Mr. D did, because I was getting really stressed at that time - He was seriously such a great sport and the most helpful groom ever!!). We chose places like where we were when we first decided to start our relationship, where we used to study together in college, our favorite date places, where we were going on our honeymoon, where our new home would be! Of course, we created (double-sided) table name cards that would match all of our other wedding stationery.

Are you naming your tables?  If so, what’s the theme??