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The wine-cork placecard holder is actually quite close to what we’re doing. We hotgluegunned two winecorks together, standing upright, and then used a razor to slice across the top. It stands on its own, we’re placing the card into the slit along the top, and we’re tying either ribbon or raffia around the corks.

I’m thinking of putting names on stones… anyone know where I can get stones? Other than getting a big bag and finding them somewhere.

(I’m just thrilled that I posted my completely insane idea over an hour ago, and no one has said “OMG Sarah, that will never work!” Yet.)

Oh, Sarah, hope you didn’t feel ignored… sometimes the “no comment” treatment can be read into, like a fly ball that just hits the ground.

Well, since you want comments, I think it’s very sweet but might be a little straining on yourselves. Our wedding was recent, and if we had to hand them out to each person/couple/family at the beginning of the reception, we never would have finished because everyone comes up to talk and see the ring and hug and ask where the bathroom is and compliment the OOT bags and say your Mom looks great and you lost weight and the cermony was lovely and isn’t the weather beautiful… and it takes forever but you love it and get lost in it and time flies!

So you might only talk to some people, and meanwhile, some folks won’t get it and will colonize the wrong table, and others will arrive late or never.

BUT you might get the best of both worlds if you and your husband hang out right next to the escort card table so you can talk to lots of people still enable and those who need to get grandma seated ASAP and find the highchair and ensure they’re getting the no-sodium low-fat kosher vegetarian south beach diet meal are all set.

Arivechi — yes, correct!

Iris–that’s roughly the reaction I was expecting, but immediately, and from virtually everyone. Part of me believes you’re completely right, but part of me says “oh, but it’s such a small wedding, and it’d be so personal,” and so on. Hovering by the table is a reasonable compromise.

Our other potentially disastrous escort card plan is to display them (see, I always had that fallback) alphabetically by last name as would be expected, but to actually label them with what we call people. So my dad’s would say “Dad” and appear under A, and “Uncle Bob” would be under W…that’s another plan where I can see a bazillion pitfalls, but for some reason I choose not to discard it out of hand. I believe this is what you might call “cruisin’ for a bruisin’,” if you were the sort of person who used phrases like that.

Does anyone know where you can order the votive placecards pictured above? Thanks!

MediaLady–I’m doing escort cards and no place cards. If they’re desperate for place cards, they can stick their escort cards where place cards would go.

I could only see the need for assigned seats (besides at a head table, where there are multiple reasons) if you’ve got a wheelchair or oxygen tank or some other thing that can’t be blocking an aisle or needs to be near an exit. I would hope, though, that six seated wedding guests, seeing their tablemates approach, one pushing another in a wheelchair, would do what they could to make the wheelchair-bound guest comfortable. Wouldn’t you?

i was thinking of using our one of three favors as ‘escort cards’

our favors: a full bottle of wine (from the vineyard), mex wedding cake cookies and mini corked bottles of olives

since there will be kids present, i was thinking of using the wine bottles as escort cards..one per family.