Weddingbee Blog

The majority of weddings that I have attended have all been open seating kinds of events, where guests sat wherever they wanted.  So when we were planning our wedding, we decided to kick it up a notch and have assigned seating. This meant that we needed escort cards which in turn lead to an escort card display! I had already pulled this picture out of MS Weddings because of the centerpieces shown on the bottom of the page, so when we decided to do assigned seating, I knew exactly where to look for an escort card display.

I headed to my friendly neighbourhood Michael’s craft store for some supplies,

got together all of the pink and brown ribbon I had in my scrapbook supplies and plugged in the glue gun!

I started by wrapping each board in pink Martha Stewart craft paper and taping the paper to the back so that it was tight across the front.

Then I measured out each ribbon and planned the sequence so that the colours alternated nicely. Once I had each strip of ribbon cut I measured out how far apart the cards needed to be and then I glued the ribbon to the boards with hot glue gun glue.

Several small burns on my fingers later I had this!

The escort cards were made by Melissa Chapman, who did all of our stationery.  We just had to write the table names on the inside of each card and slip them beneath the ribbon so that the front side remained out.  This is what I ended up with!

It took me about four  hours to do three boards for 135 escort cards. The cost of the boards, MS craft paper, and ribbons was about $80.  But that may be a bit low since I already had most of the ribbon. If you are having escort cards at your wedding, how will you be displaying them?

*Beastie Boys