Make The Right Move With A Chess Wedding Table Plan

Chess piece place card holder Whether the bride and groom are chess lovers, or you just want a unique spin on the classic black and white wedding, a chess theme creates a totally stylish and classy look. Black and white lend themselves to any striking accent colour – crimson red, turquoise or emerald green to name but a few – and this colour can provide bright and cheerful highlights throughout the wedding day. The chequered black and white chess board provides the perfect base for the design of your wedding table plan, with the table layout highlighted in your accent colour.

Table plans and escort cards

Chess pieces can make great escort or place card holders – arrange your cards on a chess board for the perfect chess themed display.
Don’t feel you have to stick to the black and white colour scheme – here is an example of chess piece escort card holders in light pink and blue.
Use chess prints on escort cards to make simple but stylish escort cards.
If you have a simple black and white design for your seating plan, then mount each table’s guest list onto a large chess board on an easel.

Table names and numbers

Bride playing large chess game

The striking black and white colour theme lends itself perfectly to simple contrasting papercut chess table numbers.
Name tables after chess pieces – with the King and Queen at the head table.
Alternatively, name tables after famous chess moves or gambits.
If you love everything quirky, use the chess theme from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the looking Glass’ – the sequel to ‘Alice in Wonderland’ – where Alice finds herself in a weird and wonderful white and red chess themed land. Main characters are chess pieces (Alice is a pawn) and the whole world is a chessboard made of fields. Table names could include ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘Tweedledum and Tweedledee’, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’.

Table décor and favours

Large chess piece candles would make lovely table centrepieces.
If you can find a simple wooden chess set, you can make a small slot in the top of each piece to use as table name holders.
Place your floral centrepieces on a chess board, surrounded by chess pieces – this example has a very elegant white, gold and pink colour scheme.
Favours could include these stunning chess-themed glass button cufflinks for the gents, and chess piece earrings for the ladies.

Other ideas

This theme would complement many other themes, particularly a Victorian steampunk wedding, shabby chic or garden weddings.

If you fancy having a go at making your own chessboard table decorations, this video shows (what appears, to an amateur!) to be a remarkably simple method.