Table Decor and Names

Posted by Tasha

We're closing in on almost 4 months now and we're still trying to figure out table names (read: we need your help yet again!) Last week before Thanksgiving, Tigritza and I met with our wedding coordinator at our venue and were able to see a sample dinner table set with our chosen plates and utensils and glasses and bowls and chairs, etc!!! It really made it come alive. We decided on table size - seating 8 per table since it is family style dining and it will be cozy and easier to pass food. We also chose our serving dishes and estimated how everything would fit on the tables - we left some room for the centerpieces!
Below are some photos of what the tables will look like - without one element: instead of off-white tablecloths, we'll put red, orange, and yellow patterned saris on the tables to add color! It will make the white plates pop and look fantastic!

And, we also set up the head table. It is seriously the coolest table ever! It's called the "serpentine" and actually it's 3 tables put together - at the head table Tigritza and I will be in the middle surrounded by family - 4 on each side. Meeting with Hannah, our coordinator, gave us so much energy and made me personally jump around like a little animal - saying I was excited was just not enough! I was skipping around the venue and sitting at the head table - where I will be sitting in just over 4 months with my wife.

Check out the photo -

So now, you can picture this, right? Here's were we need your help: Table Names. (Instead of Table Numbers - "you're at table number 8" we wanted to give name each table, under a particular theme. The question is, what's the theme?)
At first I really liked the idea of languages: naming each table after a language... and we listed about 10 that represented places we lived in or had a significant relationship to,  but the idea now doesn't seem as awesome as when I originally thought of it.
Plus, since we're now only seating 8 people per table, we now have 14 tables and need at least that many names. Of course, we can go simple and just number them. Or, we can do cities we lived in or visited, but that's been done before by others members of our family, so we want to change it up... We don't have a wedding 'theme' aside from glass bottles (vodka bottles as you see from the post below and the wine corks as place cards... and, little glass bottles that the flowers will be in) but we're not really vodka or wine buffs so having names of alcohol doesn't seem to fit. What do you think?

Also, keep in mind we want something that can run through the theme of the wedding  - and since we were playing with the idea of having a typewriter as a guestbook, we can do typewriter theme (but we haven't completely settled on that yet)...  Thoughts? For a guestbook and table names and a general theme that you think will go with our bright (red, orange, yellow) wedding?