Getting ahead on the head table

When designing the tablescape for the wedding, Jay and I knew that we did not want a sweetheart table. There was something about it that made us feel isolated from our guests. After all, the reason we invited them was to be WITH them, right?

So we decided to go with an eight-foot long banquet table that would also seat our MOH, Best Man, and their spouses. I decided to have fun with the idea and began thinking up ways that we could make the head table stand out. It would be the only banquet table at the reception.

I found some cool, rusty items to put flowers in, along with white, Ironstone-like vases that all of the other tables would have, these old wooden chairs I painted white (and reupholstered the seats, adding pillows to those without pads), and made these adorable Mr. and Mrs. signs. I tore sheets from an old book, drew with permanent marker the words, and placed them in white picture frames attached to white ribbon.

The table, like the rest of them, will have a white linen with a handmade table ruffled burlap table runner made by Jay's aunt.