Well, at least that’s what I keep telling myself because it’s all I can think about these days!  Fortunately, it’s not the tables themselves or really what’s going on them that’s keeping me up at night, it’s the gosh darned table numbers!

I know exactly the shape/size/dimensions of all the tables and where they’re each going to be located in the reception space - my poor, sweet Caroline at High Hampton spent several hours with the rental company coming up with a design that I liked (I strangely have an aversion to round tables, which made this all much more complicated that it otherwise would have been - I’m sorry, Caroline).  Also, I have a wonderful florist doing all the centerpieces and overall table decor and my amazingly crafty mother is making all the table runners.  I keep thinking I should feel really good about the tables, and trust me I do, I just can’t for the life of me figure out what I want to do about table numbers!

There are so many cool options out there and I can’t seem to narrow it down… please help me!  What do you think of my top three ideas (pictured below)?

These are from The Craft Pedlars and go with some of the other pieces from our wedding (like the invitations and our seating cards), but they seem kind of pricey ($3 per number) for something that is cute, but ultimately not a big wow factor… but I keep going back to them, so maybe it is worth it…

I love the idea of chalkboards, too, and this could be used elsewhere in the reception (like menus with the food):

(image from little white book)

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Love this idea from Anne-Marie at Perfect Bound - spice jars as table numbers!

{Anthropologie}

The official Braves bus (which I am still sad I didn’t get to ride!) dropped our guests off at the front gates of Turner Field, the site of our Welcome Party. All of the guests were instructed to wear red, white, and navy (and preferably Braves gear!).

{Image via Feisty Tourist}

We got SO lucky with the weather - the day we arrived, it was cloudy with drizzles, and the day we left town, it was raining, but during the three days of our event, Atlanta had the most fabulous weather! The night of the Welcome Party was 60 and sunny.

{Image via Jenna}

Walking into the 755 Club, guests were greeted with one of my favorite things from the whole event - my lineup card seating chart created by Laura Hooper. Let me just tell you how nervous I was writing in the guests’ names to the lineup card - I would have been so upset if I ruined her gorgeousness. :)

{Image via Feisty Tourist}

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Heidi created these wine bottle table numbers for her friends Sandor and Svetlana’s wedding.  A pretty and simple project, it took her approximately two hours to make 16!

All you will need are coordinating papers, scissors, adhesive and a printer.  Cut and mat your cards to desired width/height.  Affix layers.  To create the table numbers, print your typeface (be sure to use your print driver to print in mirror image) and cut out with scissors.  Glue to squares, cut a slit in the wine cork stopper, and insert.  Voila!

Samantha (who created this gorgeous matching invitation set too!) is making table numbers and place cards for her January wedding.

Samantha says:

For the table cards, I wanted to make the names/table number part as easy as possible, since it would come down to right before the wedding before I’d be able to complete these, due to RSVPs. What I decided to do was print the names and table numbers on mailing labels and then fold the edges around the actual table card so that it doesn’t really look like a label.

To make the tent/folded card, I cut kraft cardstock into 2.25″x5″ strips. The width is based on the width of the labels and the height is twice what I thought was a good proportion in relation to the width (2.5″), since they will be folded in half. After they were cut, we used the Martha Stewart lace puncher (that we used on the invitation wraps), to lace the bottoms of the cards.  The next layer is made up of a cool red and white wrapping paper that I found on the clearance aisle of Michael’s. I used this wrapping paper on the table numbers too.  I cut the wrapping paper into strips and then glued them on the center of the table cards and folded the edges over.

The last step won’t come until the end of December/beginning of January. We will print out each guest’s name onto the labels, in addition to which table they will be seated at. We will somehow incorporate a signal as to which meal they have chosen (table number color, a gem, etc.

For the table numbers, the same wrapping paper went inside an unfinished wood frame that Samantha transformed.  She will finish it out with white cardstock numbers.

Easy and chic!

Tina designed and created beautiful place cards and table numbers for a friend’s wedding using items from Paper Source.

{Thomas Kachadurian}

Supplies for the table numbers: Paper Source 5 1/2″ square cards and 5″ circle stickers (these have been discontinued; the look could be achieved with their new sheets of 4″ round labels).

Supplies for the place cards: Paper Source place cards and 2.5″ round labels.

Lauren created these easy but beautiful table numbers using her engagement picture and Photoshop.

Print and mat on cardstock - voila!

A lucky visit to my favorite store in New York, Tinsel Trading, provided a simple solution to one of my wedding-day decor dilemmas. These adorable beaded letters are sold there for $10/each - and even if 18 tables x $10 had seemed reasonable, I still would have made my own set. Luckily for me, Tinsel Trading only offers these as letters, not numbers so I headed to my trusty local bead-emporium and got myself to work.

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