Lemon / Lime placecards

Hey all!

I recently decided that I'm going to have to do assigned seating after all -- if for no other reason than to keep my friends away from my parents' ultra-conservative friends.

I'd like this not to look like an after-thought. One of my psuedo themes is citrus fruit -- specifically lemons and limes. I was thinking that I could attach little pieces of paper with the name and the table number to lemons and limes and somehow line them up. I've seen this done with apples and pears, but apples and pears are not likely to roll around. Does anyone have any idea how the lemons and limes could be displayed such that they don't roll around? Our guest list is approximately 125.

My thoughts so far -- cutting off the base of the lemon / lime, except that I don't think I could do this far in advance, and I really don't want to do this on wedding morning.... or somehow putting all 125 in a dish of something that would mold to the lemons and limes (like sand? but there's got to be something better than sand).

Or I suppose I could do tented green and yellow cards. It would certainly work, but it isn't as fun.

[Heather]

Lemon and lime skittles! :-)

Or, go to a cooking specialty store or craft store. I'll bet both would have something you could insert that would help to keep it stable.

[wynelle]

And you can get those little disposable tags that you put in cheese to tell everyone what kind of cheese it is--use those for the nametag.

Go to Michaels and get round balsa wood rings or diamonds--spray paint half of them lemon colored and half of them lime colored---or do them all leaf green.

Place ring on table, put lemon on ring, stick tag with place seting info in lemon.

Cute...

[jenshaka]

if you're looking for something to stabilize them, how about rice? or maybe i'm just suggesting that because i'm asian

Rice is a great idea (so much less messy than sand). Now -- what to put the rice in?

[Heather]

Soap dishes? Maybe go to the Dollar Store and buy everything they have and then spray paint them the color you want?

[Sh@ks18]

Check out this site: http://www.sunkist.com/products/lemontaining.asp

it shows a sample of a lemon with a place card on top. I was thinking maybe you can do something like that and instead of placing it in something to hold it still, maybe you can poke 2 toothpicks in the back as a stand. That way it wont roll around and you wont have to worry about buying extra stuff.

An update on this thread -- in case anyone ever has occaision to want to know how it turned out.

I experimented a few weeks before the wedding and discovered that lemons and limes actually don't really roll...so long as you let them "settle" themselves. So what I did was prepare little slips of paper with the names and table numbers, and then had a box of pins. The wedding planner set up the lemons and limes in rows and then tacked the alphabetized slips to the lemons and limes. They looked pretty, and overall, this was pretty cheap and not labor-intensive.

Thanks for all your advice. Here's the finished product...

[wembley]

Those turned out super cute!

[HtownNole]

Originally Posted by wembley

Those turned out super cute!

Ditto!

[Heather]

Yep! Have to agree. They're fine on their own and look really cute.

[justnmary]

I like it!

[NovemberGal]

They look great!