Better together: Table Names and Numbers

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It all started with this creation by the recovering lazyholic.

"You are the yellow to my purple." Simple, wedding colors, complementary, fab.

I knew I wanted to utilize the image some way during the wedding, but how. My signage bases were covered. We had everything prepped for the bar, buffet, candy, cupcakes, wish bowl. Everything but the table names/numbers.

Inspiration for table names/numbers were collecting in my head but none that I truly wanted. Then I realized this simple complementary thing would be perfect! How could you go wrong with table numbers named from things that complement each other? They are great on their own, but better together... like the hubs and myself!

Bridesmaid N and myself brainstormed complementary things and came up with a huge list of complementary nouns/ things that go together: chocolate and peanut butter, pb&j, cake and ice cream, champagne and oj, peas and carrots, nuts and berries, whiskey ginger, salt and pepper, cheese and crackers, kobe and phil,burgers and fries, chips and dip, the captain and tennille, brangelina, ketchup and mustard, purple and gold, the birds and the bees, tom ford for gucci, bonnie and clyde, thelma and louise, james and the giant peach, jack and jill, green eggs and ham, pink ladies and t-birds, jordan and pippen, kareem and magic, chamberlin and west, phil and jeanie, bart and lisa, laurel and hardy, micky and minnie,tom and jerry, ben and jerry, bread and butter, lox and bagels, bong and a blintz, smoke and a crepe, coffee and a ciggy, tea and crumpets, chicken and waffles.

Music edition: sonny and cher, lennon and mccartney, john and yoko, sid and nancy, rhythm and lead guitar, page and plant, guns and roses, mick and keith, models and musicians, donnie and marie, diana ross and the supremes, tom petty and the heart breakers.

To narrow it down, I started to list things we enjoyed, placing them into categories so there wouldn't be an over abundance of anything (food, music, Lakers, locations). The tag line would be, "you are the ... to my ..."

Food. (All images from clip art)
You are the icing to my cupcake.
You are the bacon to my egg.
You are the french fries to my burger.
You are the wine to mt cheese.


Drink. (All images from clip art)
You are the milk to my cookies.
You are the garnish to my cocktail.


Cute Couples:
You are the Pucca to my Garu. souce
You are the roller coaster to my heart. (Image is of Angry Little Asian Girl & her bf) source


SB/college influence.
You are the Halloween to my I.V. source
You are the waves to my beach. clipart


Pop culture influence.
You are the twitter to my blackberry.
You are the Chuck to my Blair... xoxo. source


Lakers.
You are the yellow to my purple. source
You are the World Champion Lakers to my Los Angeles.
You are the champagne to my celebration. source

I had originally wanted to use images that went with the sort of style and feeling of our inspiration. I thought we'd be able to afford a freelance/new graphic designer that could create custom images for us. This would allow for cohesiveness and fit a cartoonish/superflat/pop look we were going for. Nina of Femme Rationale was able to get me into contact with a graphic designer friend of hers and his portfolio looked great, but I soon realized that we couldn't afford custom images :( We needed too many and the budget was in no way prepared for this. Definitely a bummer but I set my sights on search for images online.

I searched Getty Images and iStock Photo which had great images but both cost money I did not want to spend. Ultimately I used clip art from Microsoft Office and a few free images I found online. Not as cohesive as originally planned, but I was fine with it.


Table Names


Table Numbers. Note the random yellow circles? We ran out of white ones, oopsies.


Scallop details :)

Both table name and number were printed on 4-inch circle labels. I mounted them on 4.25-inch scallop paper, mounted that on 5.5 x 5.5 circles, glued both name side and number side to each other, and loved the result.

Sarah K Chen Photography

Sarah K Chen Photography

At the end of the night, we were able to scoop them up and save them for scrap booking before the catering staff could throw them away.

How did you decide on table names? What is your favorite table name/number idea?



Blog title is from lyrics by Jack Johnson