Your escort or seating card display presents a wonderful opportunity to personalize your celebration where guests naturally congregate. Typically, table number cards are stuffed into envelopes personalized with guests’ names, or tented cards are calligraphed with names and table assignments on the front.
Add a personal touch to the cards and the table set up by taking cues from your invitation design, the reception location, the season, or your personalities and give guests something to talk about during cocktails!
The possibilities for the perfect seating card display are endless, the outcome, truly memorable!
Colorful hand-scripted cards displayed on a dramatic, decorative paper-covered magnet board will help guests find their seats with style. Organize escort cards alphabetically by last name in neat rows with red silk dupioni button magnets.
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If you are handy with a sewing machine, consider making a silk pocket banner to hold the cards. Or take the concept a step further and create canvas boat sales for a junk shop boat. It may not be sea worthy, but your guests will be raving about it long after the celebration has passed!
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Photo Credit: Modern Bride
Photo Credit: Modern Bride
How about creating pocket stands from paper and tucking your seating cards inside?
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Or, for an outdoor wedding, clothespin cards to an acorn swag or grommet dragonfly shaped cards to picnic fabric and pin them to a clothesline.
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Short on time? Add a quick embellishment such as paper flowers to a tented card and line them up on a table covered in moss or grass. Or add a fish graphic and perch atop a glass table filled with shells.
Photo Credit: Michelle Rago
Photo Credit: Michelle Rago
Photo Credit: Michelle Rago
Simply change the shape of your escort cards to a circle, square or tall rectangle adding a graphic flourish or rhinestone and feather embellishment to create visual interest.
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Photo Credit: Michelle Rago
If you love shabby chic or vintage finds, hinge 2 salvage barn doors together and hang escort cards from them using aged brass upholstery tacks.
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Nautical themed wedding? Attach circle shaped cards inside working brass compasses. They are the perfect display stand and double as a unique and useful favor.
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Comments
Love your new fresh designs. I’m the mother of the bride & have intrusted her wedding to only young creative professional like you to do their very best. My daughter would like a seating chart consisting of a large picture frame with the cards folded over maybe string of some sort. Have you done that sort of thing before-maybe a pic? I would need about 150 cards for a August wedding. Any suggestions?
I love the compasses. Do you know where I could buy those compasses? Thank you!
All these ideas are amazing. Where would I be able to find the grass for the place cards?
Thank you all for such wonderful feedback. This is one of my favorite aspects of the reception to design…you can really have fun with it!
In response to Wendy’s question:
The second photo is a silk tapestry sewn on a machine with pockets that hold each seating card…great for outdoor seating displays as the cards will not blow away in the breeze and also a fun idea for a wedding with a royal or vintage theme. You can use any fabric, patterned or plain and hang it from a tree branch, a garden shepherd’s hook or on a bare wall to create a focal point!
What a lovely collection of creativity you have assembled. Such great ideas!
I want to know that what’s the meanig of the second picture.
Lots of ideas here that our Central Coast Brides will love. We will share this with our Brides!
Love these creative ideas. They are all so unique and beautiful. Inspiring!
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