Call me a chronic overthinker, but as I was planning the seating chart for my wedding, I couldn't help but worry that our guests would feel ranked by their assigned table numbers. Thinking from that perspective, it didn't sound too appealing to be at "Table 24" of 24 tables. So why not eliminate table numbers altogether... and replace them with symbols?
My wedding was to be at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which, fun fact, is home to the largest quartz cluster ever found in Arkansas. So I chose to emphasize the crystal in Crystal Bridges and name the tables after different crystals and gemstones!
For consistency purposes, I used the same typefaces and color scheme as my wedding invitations and programs (seen above; designed by Shindig Paperie in Fayetteville, AR) to create a cohesive wedding identity.
TABLE CARD DESIGN
FUN FACT: The images used in this GIF actually weren't taken at my wedding. So much was going on during the big day that taking pictures to document my work just slipped my mind. So I found a picture of a blank acrylic frame on a white table cloth, then recreated the image to depict how it looked at the wedding by compositing it with images of my wedding flowers and a background image of the venue (seen below).
TABLE MAP POSTER DESIGN
ESCORT CARDS
In collaboration with Shindig Paperie for the escort card design, I provided the isolated gemstone and text graphics used in my table card designs in their requested file format, PDF.
