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 stox
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Bit of a random one but I'm getting married in 2 weeks and we are still trying to one up with a good idea for wedding table names. I'm a roadie as well as a MTB'er and with it taking place during the TDF the future Mrs thought we could use that as a theme so stage names, mountains etc and have the top table as champs-élysées. I like the idea of it but
The more I look at it the less Im not sure it'd work so just thought I'd ask opinions or for any other cycling related ideas!!!!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 6:58 pm
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We used names of my favourite mountains & munros.

I reckon you could use the names of various famous stages from the classics, or if you have a limited number of tables just name them after the classics?

Mind you Liege - Bastogne - Liege is quite a mouthful as a table name...


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:00 pm
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What about simple bicycle model names? I would suggest Cove's range as a good starting point.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:01 pm
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😀


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:04 pm
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'People we like'.
'People I like, but she doesn't'.
'People she likes, but I don't'.
'People neither of us like, but had to invite'.
'Alcoholics'.
'Gluttons'.
'Keep away from children'.
'Bores'.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:05 pm
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I always think table names are an injoke that only the bride and groom will get and everyone else needs them explained.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:10 pm
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Naming tables? WTF?

I'm sure it'd be a better use of your time numbering them and not wasting an hour or so of your life.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:11 pm
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famous mountains in the tour?

Ventoux (for the people who fart loads)
Coix de Fer
Galibier (top table?)
Alpe d'Huez etc

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_cat%C3%A9gorie ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_cat%C3%A9gorie[/url]


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:12 pm
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Loving Rusty's idea's. 😀


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:14 pm
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Went to a wedding where all the table numbers were 1, but in different languages. Works best if you've spent some time in the countries where they're spoken!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:14 pm
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Spartacus
Super Mario
The Badger
Big Mig
The Cannibal
The Pirate
Mister Tom
etc etc


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:21 pm
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I'm going for Peak District crags.......vowels changed to love, honour and belay as well.....BOOM!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:31 pm
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I love Rusty's and just would add two more tables - "people we know will hate each other but thought it would be a laugh to put together and watch you all squirm" and "two people on this table had an affair with each other and their partners don't know - guess who?!". Always entertaining.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:36 pm
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We went for places we'd been... left some my cousins wondering what we'd done and where!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 7:51 pm
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with 'er in doors being a Scientist and me an Engineer we had 'elements' as table names.. worked OK.

However it was divided up along Rusty spanners guidelines..


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:36 pm
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love, honour and belay

I'm stealing that.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:41 pm
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To add to Rusty's list

People we hope will get drunk, bump uglies and look awkward tomorrow.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:46 pm
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I never knew people did this. Everyday's a school day!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:49 pm
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People we hope will get drunk, bump uglies and look awkward tomorrow.

Disposable camera on each table for that... 8)


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:52 pm
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We did ours after our favourite childhood sweets .... As our wedding was a bit of a party rather than a stuck up wedding 😀

Been married 9 years, o my !


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:55 pm
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Mine were named after my favourite Wigan Athletic players mutch to my mother in laws disapproval


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 8:58 pm
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Named afters ex's? Better still if they come.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:03 pm
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We thought about doing places we'd been but it ended up looking a bit pretentious.

We thought about the sweets. No table names on the table just a decoration made using the sweets.

Places we'd lived together but we were a couple short.

We ended up going for local places and using postcards as it was nice and simple.

It's only table names - we spent considerably longer writing our own vows and I had about 12 drafts of my speech!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:04 pm
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Went to hotel to check arrangements day before. Were met with a 'Oh, you haven't named the tables?' comment

Cue 'Errrr what??' puzzled looks and general bafflement from me and soon to be Mrs Seadog.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:07 pm
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My mate used David Bowie album titles for his table names.

There were a few quizzical looks from the old dears frequenting the Diamond Dogs table I can tell you!


What about simple bicycle model names? I would suggest Cove's range as a good starting point.

Oh yeh, the handjob table, quality.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:07 pm
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No table names on the table just a decoration made using the sweets.

We went to one that did this but with jars of sweets, sugar overload.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:12 pm
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Like the TDF idea or Names of TDF riders, top table could be the Podium.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:14 pm
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We had ours named after famous dogs:

Bobby the Wonder Dog
London (played the Littlest Hobo)
Belka
Strelka (first two dogs to go into space and come back alive)
Snuppy (first cloned dog)
Smokey (WWII morale dog)

Wedding we went to a few weeks ago had their tables named after mythical creatures. We were on the Kraken table. 😛


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:26 pm
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Marked for future reference.

How about love in different languages?
Favourite beers/wines?


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 9:48 pm
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We used the names of Scottish Ski runs. Everything from The White Lady, to the Back Passage, via the Haggis Trap and Flypaper. I don't think we used The Bumhole though. Should have.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 10:09 pm
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yamyamblade +1


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 10:13 pm
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Call me a traditionalist,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 you get the idea, it tends to work quite well and you don't get people asking all night why their table is called something that the majority of people don't have a clue about.


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 10:41 pm
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family
tw4ts
others


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 11:17 pm
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we have 8 tables and are having the seven stanes...splitting glentree and innerleithen.....


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 11:21 pm
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Turned up on the day to find my wife had done the table names after all the hospitals I'd been in. Think there was 8 or so. Raigmore, Vale of Leven, GRI, ERI, Yorkhill etc...
"Dont worry about the names, I'll sort that out.." har har.
Suppose it was good for the best man's speech!


 
Posted : 26/06/2012 11:35 pm
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I'm going for Peak District crags.......vowels changed to love, honour and belay as well.....BOOM!

'Do you TAKE! this woman...?"


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 6:59 am
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"Mine were named after my favourite Wigan Athletic players mutch to my mother in laws disapproval"

I can just see Auntie Mayble say .... "Chimbonda!! What kind of name it that?"

Brilliant.

With my wife becoming a Mrs Rose, we unsurprisingly has types of roses.

While the berk I work with had different types of Porsches ... 911, 944 etc etc .... he couldn't be more of a city **** if he tried.... Grrr


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 8:10 am
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"the word for love in different languages" thanks for that, now I have to stop drinking coffee to clean the vomit off my keyboard.

If it was me, I would go for famous lines from films you like. It's all a bit silly anyway so you might as well take it as far as you can.

Starting with:

“Nuke the entire site from orbit--it's the only way to be sure"


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 8:17 am
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We used the names of rowing and cycling clubs we'd raced for. Seemed appropriate and people who actually knew us (eg everyone, luckily) got it without any explaining...


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 8:26 am
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We went to the Maldives for our honeymoon so the tables were named after various islands.

You could try random numbers...12, 345, 7, 9.4, 7 & 3/4s, 3.14, Q, Batman Symbol.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 11:13 am
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Tables named after legendary planes, with the missus being in the RAF.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 11:19 am
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Name the tables after different tables:

Dining, Card, Coffee, Picnic, Water, Billiards, DB2 etc


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:11 pm
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wedding table names

Just one tiny thing on a huuuuge list of why I don't like weddings.

Are you having standard air or paying extra for the premium wedding air in reception venue? Come on, it is the most important 1/2 day in your life.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:15 pm
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Name the tables after different tables:

Dining, Card, Coffee, Picnic, Water, Billiards, DB2 etc

Periodic?


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:16 pm
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Periodic?

Once in a while, yes.

How the other half live though. I don't even remember naming or numbering any of the tables at either of my two weddings. I must have missed out on something.

How about famous F1 drivers? Just make sure that the top table is "Senna".


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:29 pm
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We used tube stations around London that meant something to us...

"Hyde Park Corner" - first date
"Tottenham Court Road" - many fun nights around the west end started there..

etc etc. 🙂


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:38 pm
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We had our reception at a rugby club. Yes, we used positions as our table names. Yes, we had "Hookers". Yes, we put the bridesmaids on that table...


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 12:39 pm
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wedding table names

Just one tiny thing on a huuuuge list of why I don't like weddings.

So why comment on this thread, it's not what the OP asked for is it [rhetorical question by the way, no need for a reply].

Racing team names, mixed with frame builders maybe? winning stage times from the last x days?

We went with toys and had the toys on the table, cos essentially I am a big kid, and for reference yeah it maybe took an hour of my life to add a little personality to my wedding - wow!


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 1:10 pm
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So why comment on this thread, it's not what the OP asked for is it [rhetorical question by the way, no need for a reply].

Anyone registered is free to post as they see fit and within the rules. It's a thread about weddings and the IMHO trivial matters that people consider, about which I have an opinion. Hence the post. No offense intended, each to their own and all that, I just find it a bit toe curling.


 
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[i]1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 you get the idea, it tends to work quite well and you don't get people asking all night why their table is called something that the majority of people don't have a clue about.
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this.

Although, careful seating plans can, as above, cause major comedy moments. I have a friend with an unhealthy obsession for the larger-chested lady. He goes into a trance at the very sight of breasts. It's a medical condition, I believe it's called Norkolepsy. So, where better to seat him than between his wife and a friend of ours who has the fortune/misfortune to have a set of JJs.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 1:52 pm
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Ikea have a whole load of table names from Bjorsta to Norberg.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 2:02 pm
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Thanks for the responses. Some expected, some not so 🙂
Table names are something you either do or you don't at a wedding
Personally I think it's a nice touch, beats just numbering them and there is a little effort involved which I think people like to see.
To bring it to a close, there has been a change of plan!!!
Biking aside I'm a bit of a polar explorer nut so we have decided that they seem to work better as table names (using the surnames).
Appreciate the suggestions. Pjt201 was a close second - thanks for the link.


 
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The thread was worth the price of admission just for "norkolepsy." Well played, sir.


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 2:22 pm
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I'm going to suggest John, Steve, Bill, Mary, etc, etc any random generic names and make sure there is nobody at the table with the table name.

But seriously a lot of nonsense if you ask me!


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 3:08 pm
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I used the classics and big tours. Had a flag from each one on the table,

tour de france
vuelta
giro
paris - roubaix
amstel gold
flanders
milan san remo
leige bastone leige
crit du dauphine
tour of california
tour de suisse
tour of britain (kids table)

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This is exactly why this is my favorite forum


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 3:16 pm
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Positions from the Karma Sutra - not the obvious ones - e.g. Standing Tiger/Crouching Dragon, The Amazing Butterfly, Supernova,....

Should cause a few laughs and blushes


 
Posted : 27/06/2012 3:29 pm