.. – 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
xx
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
Im getting married April 2013, and wanting to plan things like this now. Struggling abit for table names, we havent been abroad that many times to do places weve been, weve only ever lived in one place.. my theme is pink with love hearts, any ideas? I was going to do the quotes that are on the love heart sweets like “Be Mine” “Call Me” “Truly Yours” but my fiance doesnt like the idea ha!
my musical niece had classical composers eg, Elgar, Beethoven for her table names and another niece (nurse marrying a doctor) had herbal remedies including information as to what they were used for).
I have also heard of favourite chocolates with a plate of the appropriate one in the centre.
Hi there, My daughter got married in the very beautiful Craig Y Nos Castle, the loveliest day of the year in August last year. Here husband proposed in Paris, so they bought some beautiful postcards of Paris land marks to name the tables with and on the reverse had a picture of them both thanking the guests for sharing their perfect day. The day flew by so make sure friends and family take plenty of pictures! Most importantly enjoy the day!
We are both big F1 fans and we named our tables after grand prix circuits. We also had an F1 cake and we went to the european grand prix for our honey moon. I used the shape of each circuit on the table plan with the guests names next to each one!
These are fab!
Me and my partner havent set a date yet but i am looking for ideas anyway!
We thought last night we might do movies about couples as our table names with a photo of us imitating the front cover, and i know the top table doesnt normally have a number but we were going to put it as Mr & Mrs Smith, as that will be us!
Just thought it might be something different and fun for our guests to read when checking the table plan for there names….oh Mr & Mrs Smith….how funny!
(But were not telling anyone so it will be a suprise) x
WoW! Thank you for this site! We are having a wedding on the lake and this gave me the inspiration to name our tables after boats
) I.e. Tied the Knot – Not II Nauti -A Shore Thing
i am getting married in 6 weeks and have found that naming my tables is the hardest decision that i have had to make. Originally i wanted to name them after songs that were at number 1 the year we met also putting a bit of trivia ie how long the song was at number 1 for but now i am in two minds and thinking of naming them after the vows that mean the most to our relationship ie Love & Cherish as the top table, trust, honour ect.
I need to make the decision like yesterday and i just dont know what to do
At a wedding I was at recently the dinner and party were held in an old school so the tables were named after classes like maths geography etc. My favourite was detention lol. Think that’s a good idea for people having their reception in a similar place or even people who met in school
we were thinking of shades of purple, we are having a purple and lilac colour scheme so shades of purple fits right in, could be done for lots of different colours.
how about greek, roman, nordic or celtic gods?
Magicians as we are having a surprise magician for the children.
My fiance and i are getting married sept 22 12. we are going to have table numbers 1-10. at each table, we are going to write a little blurb about how that number relates to our lives. ie: table 2- how long we have been living in our home w/ picture of us at the home; table 3- the number of christmas trees we have decorated together with a picture; table 6- the number of combined pets we had growing up; table 8- number of combined siblings we have w/ a picture of us and our siblings. etc.
I get married next week and just thought about table names. My HTB is a keen golfer and so are many of our guests so we’re having famous golf courses as our table names.
St. Andrews
Augusta National
Pebble Beach
Sawgrass
Turnberry
The Belfry
Gleneagles
(spelling to check on these of course!)
I’m not sure if the bridal table should have the most famous one ‘St Andrews’ or should remain left at ‘The Bridal Table’ and leave the names to the guest tables?
Hi,
My table theme is all of the places we have visited over the past 4 years…but i am struggling with decent places where i can get the table name onto stationary onto our tables…Can anyone help/recomend?
My Table Names:
Mexico
Amsterdam
London
Ibiza
Mallorca
Dubai
Bangkok
Phi Phi Island
Koh Samui
Koh Panghnan
Milford Haven (where his grandfather lived)
Our table plan is amazing, its a world map and using shopping tags (because we have a slight shopping addiction) as the place name cards for guests and also the table descriptions on the table plan…just need to be able to identify the different tables on the actual table!
Hope anyone can help
x
My boyfriends sister and hubby named the tables after family surnames like grand parents , mothers maiden names etc
My daughters fiancé is HGV driver and she has secretly been keeping a log of his stopovers when he is away and he happens to mention where he is parked up. So….her tables are the names of different services, like Oxford Services M40, and on the motorways up and down the UK. We can’t wait to see his face on the day, which is June 2013.
Hi all!
i also found this quite tricky!! we have decided to have cocktail names as we are quite fond of a cocktail or two!
Sex on the beach
Cosmopolitan
Daquiri
Mojito
Margarita
Pinacolada
Sea Breeze
Tequila Sunrise
We are also having giant Cocktail glasses filled with flowers and gems as our centrepieces!!
Cant wait for our big day!! good luck fellow brides
My idea for my daughter’s wedding is to have each table named after a love song. On the table card we will have the love song title and underneath ask the table guests to name the artist who sang it and what year it came out. Thought this would create a little conversation. I also thought of doing movies with weddings and ask the actor names who starred in it and what year it came out
What about naming your tables with individual letters that spells out your names or something unique about you as a couple?
Hi
Im having cadbury purple as my colour and were both massive fans of chocolate, so i was thinking of having different chocolates that cadbury make like caramal, dairy milk, freddos, fudge etc…
Were also having chocolate favours as well!!!
Hope our guests arent to chocolated out!
Helloooo, I’m marrying my fiance in May 2014, and we are already making plans! We are both mad gym fanatics and as we met in the gym, we are thinking we may name our tables after gym machines or exercises, such as “leg press”, “abdominal crunches” or “bicep curl”. I was using the “lat pull-down” machine when he first chatted me up so we thought we’d give our table that particular name. We could even have pictures of ourselves using the machines! Mad idea but I think it’s pretty unique!!
me and my fiance get married june 2014. were massive horse lovers so our tables will be called after famous horses