Showing posts with label Escort Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Escort Cards. Show all posts
Sunday
Wedding Inspirations | Escort Cards
Having fun with your Escort Cards is a great way to bring personal style to your wedding as well as involving your guests in the fun. Being creative with your venue, cards, favors or accessories. We love these ideas!
Monday
Escort Card Displays | 2012 Wrap-Up
After your ceremony, the escort card display is one of the first things your guests see of your reception. Escort cards help your guests know which table to sit at, which helps with the flow of your reception. There are so many ways you can showcase your escort card display - whether it's actual cards, a chalkboard, windows, or fruit, it should be fun and unique to you and your new spouse! For more information about these designs, check out Special Events, LLC's website.
Congratulations to all our brides and grooms this year!
For more inspiration, check out Weddings in Iowa's Pinterest Page!
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Congratulations to all our brides and grooms this year!
For more inspiration, check out Weddings in Iowa's Pinterest Page!
Photo by Jill Brown Photography
Photo by Caleb Jamin Studios
Photo by Drescher Photo & Design
Sunday
DIY Escort Cards
One of my recent brides came up with the idea of a beautiful tri-fold screen to hold her guest table choices. After printing up each table on re-cycled paper, we pinned them to the screen with toy clothes pins. It was adorable and her guests loved it.
The screen is completely reusuable in her new home, the doll clothes pins goes to a younger sister and the table assignment papers were scrapped into a memories book. DIY, Green and Fun.
The screen is completely reusuable in her new home, the doll clothes pins goes to a younger sister and the table assignment papers were scrapped into a memories book. DIY, Green and Fun.
Thursday
Pear Escort Cards
If any of you know me at all, I am a great lover of escort cards. Escort cards let your guests know which table they are seated at, at your reception.
The escort card table - the table that holds the escort cards - are a great way to show off your style, or maybe you would rather have your cards afixed to a tree, clothespinned to string, in their own envelope; the possiblilites are almost limitless. The only rule is to have fun with it.
Escort Cards can also be great DIY projects. In fact, the pear escort cards shown below double as escort "cards" and favors. Besides, they are adorable!
To make your own, you will need
2. After cutting out all of the tags, handwrite a guest's name on each one.
3. Punch a hole in each tag and attach it to a pear stem with a piece of pretty ribbon.
4. Once you've assigned guests to their tables, pop a corresponding number sticker on each pear to help show guests to their seats.
The escort card table - the table that holds the escort cards - are a great way to show off your style, or maybe you would rather have your cards afixed to a tree, clothespinned to string, in their own envelope; the possiblilites are almost limitless. The only rule is to have fun with it.
To make your own, you will need
- paper
- scissors
- 1/4" hole puncher
- fruit
- ribbon
- number stickers (Micheals.com)
2. After cutting out all of the tags, handwrite a guest's name on each one.
3. Punch a hole in each tag and attach it to a pear stem with a piece of pretty ribbon.
4. Once you've assigned guests to their tables, pop a corresponding number sticker on each pear to help show guests to their seats.
Monday
Wednesday
Seating Charts vs Place cards?
I am a lover of both, but the creative genius at Gourmet Invitations.com has this to say in favor of seating charts and I am inclined to agree with her logic.
Seating Charts
Top 8 Reasons why you should do a Seating Chart instead of Placecards
1.It is a piece of artwork that serves as decoration the entire night
2.Most of my brides hang them in their home after the wedding
3.Easier to read and at eye level
4.Placecards are messy - they are left all over the reception area
5.A placecard table looks good only until the first card is taken
6.Placecards are typically a smaller font and are harder to find your name
7.Seating charts are considered "green" - you aren't wasting all of the cardstock for placecards
8.Typically more cost effective for weddings over 125 guests
Seating Charts
Top 8 Reasons why you should do a Seating Chart instead of Placecards
1.It is a piece of artwork that serves as decoration the entire night
2.Most of my brides hang them in their home after the wedding
3.Easier to read and at eye level
4.Placecards are messy - they are left all over the reception area
5.A placecard table looks good only until the first card is taken
6.Placecards are typically a smaller font and are harder to find your name
7.Seating charts are considered "green" - you aren't wasting all of the cardstock for placecards
8.Typically more cost effective for weddings over 125 guests
Seating charts
I can't begin to tell you how important escort seating is to a successful wedding. Think back to a wedding that you attended where you really didn't know the bride and groom very well (this is a whole other blog!), it is time to find a seat in the reception room - where do you sit? It can be a bit overwhelming and somewhat stressful. You should never want your guests to think like this.
I have asked many people their thoughts on finding a place to sit on their own and it always comes to one conclusion, guests love to be "shown" to their seats. (They do it at most restaurants and we would be upset if the very best restaurants let us seat ourselves!) Escort cards or seating charts help your guests find their seat at your reception. They also let you show off your personal flair and style.
How perfect are these? A "Bride's Family Tree" chart and a "Groom's Family Tree" chart
Absolutely am in love with these two!
These charts slip perfectly into frames that can be displayed on easels. They are perfect for your social hour so your guests have time to find their seat assignment as well as admire your creativity.
Saturday
Waiting to the last minute
I watched the premier of a new wedding show last night about a wedding planning company in New York. They are a high end company that deals with weddings over $200,000.One of the things that I noticed was that their timeline for certain things was dangerously close to the event date itself. For instance, doing escort cards the day before the event? I maybe can understand the printing of the actual cards themselves, but the design and concept the day before? Isn't that cutting it awfully close?
I try very hard to have all major (and minor) details finished up at least 2-3 weeks before the wedding and sometimes even longer before that. I love it when a brides tells me that she "has nothing to do!" the week leading up to her wedding. How great is that? She is actually enjoying the process and feels calm enough to be a guest at her own event.
I understand the need for changes and edits. I myself have cut it close from time to time with last minute additions or corrections, but I try very hard not to make it a habit. One of the key things that I have found that helps anyone planning a special event is a detailed timeline. Getting it down on paper helps collect your thoughts and brings into focus areas that need attention. You should leave nothing to chance on such an important day!
The escort card picture above is courtesy of http://www.weddingfanatic.com/tag/wedding-escort-card/
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