.. – 100 Fun, unusual, quirky and different ideas for table names at your wedding. Well nearly 100! (thanks everyone for helping me to add to this list with all your ideas!) It seems that couples are picking creative and fun names for their wedding tables – something personal, meaningful to them or that fits in with their wedding theme.
At our wedding we had ‘special’ places – the roads we grew up on, our parents house, the flat that we first shared. the places that we had been on holiday etc. At the time I remember thinking how original, but having done a bit more research I realise that many other couples have the same idea as us! So, I thought I’d collate a list of 100 wedding table names to give you some inspiration.. please help me out here and add any suggestions (leave a comment and let me know what you had or are planning to have at your wedding!)
100 Wedding Table Name Suggestions well nearly – this post is a work in progress!
Beers of the World
Champagne brands
Whiskies
Wines from the Beaujolais region (with top table Saint Amour -love -and kids table Beaujolais nouveau)
Cocktails
Types of Curry
Different types of chocolate (Belgian, Dark, Swiss)
Retro Sweets (with jars on the table)
Restaurants
Halls of Residence at Uni (where couple met)
Lochs
Islands
Racecourses
Rivers (for shooting, fishing, hunting type)
Beaches
Flower names (Roses, Iris and Tulips)
Famous mathematicians and famous scientists – that is what our guest blogger Helen Carter had at hers (I think she was a mathematician or scientist in her former life)
Famous couples
Economic terms (the couple were both economists!!)
Areas of Brighton
Australian States (where bride and groom were going on honeymoon)
Places in New York
Cities
Ibiza Clubs
Road names of all the houses that they had lived in together
Places of interest, towns etc in country/ place where we got engaged
Local Towns
Italian Cities
Street names
Underground stations
Mountain names from Ski resort (in Canada and Scotland)
Skiing resort theme (Verbier) – ski runs, restaurants etc
Every hotel they have stayed in! (thanks to @planetflowers for this one – that was one of their clients)
Cartoon Characters
Soap Operas
Carry on Films
Favourite Film Titles
Dr Who Theme (The Tardis, Rose etc)
Superheroes (comic fans @samuraijen had this one)
Movie Names – guest had a line from movie next to their name and had to work it out! fun I like that one (thanks to @archibaldphotog for that one!)
Things that they had argued about (washing up)
Love in 13 different languages
Clues (for a game later)
Secrets (Mr and Mrs)
Individual words from the first dance .. so people can guess what its going to be (I love that one what a cool idea!)
Eras of the couple growing up (baby, toddler, teenager etc) with photos at each stage.
Significant years (years they met, they got engaged, birthdays etc – thanks to @planetflowers another recommendation)
Arsenal legends (typically that came from a groom!)
Rugby positions (hooker, scrum half etc)
Football teams
Golfer’s surnames – thanks to @unicorngirl for that one – her best friend had that at her wedding!
Butterflies
Birds
Fish
Big Cats – @EspDelCakes suggested that one – apparently her hubbie to be wants to be a lion!
Classic Cars
Colours of the rainbow
Stamps
Great paintings
Poems
Photo themes (taken by groom) e.g Beachhuts, Woodlands. And then everyone name places on that table would be beachhuts….similarly woodlands.
Musical instruments
Favourite songs/ music
Cure Songs – that was given to me by @prettywildwed – making stationery for a couple that have chosen that.
Concerts that they have been to (with tickets making the table names – I like that one- thanks to @archibaldphotog)
Carols
12 Days of Christmas
Luxury Fashion brands
I love the vintage, Cath Kidston style of this table plan – so pretty. The fab photos in this post were taken by husband and wife duo, Jay and Christina from Elemental Weddings – they’re award winning photographers based in Scotland. Have featured lots of their work on LMW – check out the real life wedding for Jude and Matt if you want to see more of their work and keep checking back here and on their site to keep up with their work.
I noticed that this is by far the most popular post on Little Miss Wedding so thank you all for sharing your ideas…. let me know in the comments section what you’re going to have (or had) at your wedding. Little Miss Wedding is a UK wedding blog that features british suppliers and real life wedding (click on that link to see some of them!) submissions from UK photographers.



Hi,
We are thinking of all the places we have holidayed together, Top table would be the place where we got engaged
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we’ve just recently got engaged and i’m already getting ideas for summer wedding in 2013. i love the ideas on here they are fabulous and will keep coming back for more. although my fiance and i love films we could name our tables with favourite films. and i also like the idea of our past street names. fabulous good luck to all you blushing brides. xx
We are naming our table after relatives that will
not be there like our granparents so we have HElenas table, Noels table, claudes table etc
Some interesting ideas here! We are having a love and hearts theme so our table names are the names of our parents and grandparents with a photo of them on their wedding days and the date they got married, we have 6 tables plus the top table that will have our names picture and date on. Works perfectly for the number of tables we have and is a tribute to the people that have inspired us with their everlasting love.
Love all of these table name ideas, but I am not sure which would best fit with my theme. My fiance and I are getting married on Feb. 25th. We are having a very traditional and formal wedding, and our colors are deep purple, white and silver. Our flowers are roses, picasso lillies and lisianthus. Our wedding favors will most likely be heart wine stoppers. My fiance and I are both Italian, and we were thinking of tables names after popular Italian cities. I am not sure if it goes so I am hoping for more ideas…thanks!
I read this and suddenly got inspired to use table names with the word table in them:
We used:
Table mountain (South African friends)
Excitable
Unforgetable
Turntable (DJ friends)
Indefatigable
Table dancing
Table top (top table)
Unstable and Lamentable (naughtier friends with a sense of humour)
Inheritable (relatives)
Charitable (friends who work in charities)
Comfortable (friends who have nuturing jobs)
etc
There is a website with words ideas…
Lots of fun! thanks for the inspiration
LOVE precious jewels for table names:
Diamond
Ruby
Sapphire
Emerald
Pearl
Topaz
Onyx
Peridot
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I think naming tables at your wedding reception is almost becoming tradition now. I’m all for it. I think it’s a creative and quirky way to add some fun to what can sometimes be a very formal affair. That’s a great compilation of wedding table names by the way!
We’re getting married in a gorgeous Scottish castle, Dundas Castle and I’ve named the tables after my favourite Scottish Castles! Dundas castle being the top table, of course! We’ve got Balmoral, Eileen Donan, Culzean and Fyvie to name a few!
Since we are in a coastal environment, we’re thinking of famous ocean vessels of one sort or another and/or famous sea captains, fictional or not. Should be a lot of fun, and for those who don’t have a clue what we’re talking about with the name, it will be a great ice-breaker for starting conversation at the table.
We are naming our tables after famous Egyptian things, e.g Pyramid, Nile
Egypt is the one great love in both of our lives (apart from each other)
Top table will me Cleopatra & Mark Anthony because Cleopatra couldn’t live without Mark Anthony and I couldn’t live without my precious Paul xx
Love the first picture!! Do you happen to have a picture of the full board?? I love the idea of significant places we have been. We love to travel and some special things happened in some of those places.. (saying I love you, engagment, trip down memory lane for closure) would love to encorporate that.. Love this website!!
I love Stephanie Drew’s idea. It makes it so personal and a lovely way to include those who are no longer with us x