Cards On Boards
February 25th, 2008 @ 2:16 pm by Mrs. Peacock
I am strangely excited about escort cards. It seems like it could be an inexpensive way to add a little fun and personalized style to your wedding. I have already decided that I am doing something with ferns, and I would show you a great example but InStyle Weddings has a stinky website and none of the photos from the current issue are in there.
In the meantime, if my wedding had gone shabby chic as I had originally planned, I would be all over these cards on boards:
Martha (DIY instructions included)
There is actually one more pretty red and white one in in a gorgeous frame in that same issue of InStyle Weddings (pg 240), so if you own a copy, please take a look 
And Design Sponge wants to help you make these fun boards. Here is a link on how to make these cutie buttons!
The nice thing about these boards is that if you don’t have a ton of help with decor on the day of your wedding, you can make these in advance and send it and an easel along with a loving friend to set it up.
Is anyone doing anything particularly fun and creative with their escort cards? Is anyone forgoing them altogether?
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10 Responses to “Cards On Boards”
I loved the red escort cards from Instyle also. Even though it’s not my color. I’m undecided if i want to put that much work into the cards or just go the classic route. There is a pic of the red cards below if anyone doesn’t want to go out and buy a mag.
Cute!
We didn’t have escort cards.
Instead, I used 8×10 frames and printed out the list of guests/table names between all of them. (We had about 120 guests and needed 4 frames.)
This worked well for me because it was easy to update and do at the last minute. I just created a word file, had our monogram on the bottom of each page (to make the names easier to read and pushed more to the top instead of the other way around) and printed them on nice paper (and in the font color to match our wedding).
The frames were then put on one of the tables in the area, just as you would put out the escort cards.
The other nice thing was that I chose 4 nice frames (at a great price–can’t beat Kohl’s sales!) that I can now use after the wedding (and as a momento).
Email me at anaj95 at hotmail dot com if anyone would like a picture of it. =)
Martha had a suggestion to use architectural photographs of numbers as table numbers, which we adapted, using photographs of numbers around our house–the house number, license plates, all sorts of stuff. We gift-wrapped the favors, added vellum belly-bands with guest names, and used stickers of the table numbers to hold them on.
Our reception wasn’t heavy-duty formal, so the names we used on the belly bands were what we actually call people (”Uncle Bob & Aunt Judy,” etc.), but we arranged them on the table alphabetically by last name. The last name that didn’t appear most of the time. Thank goodness there were only 40 or so of them.
we’re hoping to use mini moo cards with old/funny pictures of our guests. I have some great old 70’s photos of some of our guests and baby pictures of others that I’m hoping to use. I thought it would be a nice icebreaker too.
Are you using the fern idea from the current issue? I just saw that and decided it was perfect for us too! If you find a picture online definitely post it - I was looking for one too.
We did away with the escort cards b/c our wedding was so small (45 people) and instead had place cards. For a smaller wedding, I think this was a better way to go. I felt very strongly that I wanted people to be seated as we had 2 long tables and a bar as formal seating. This wouldn’t work for everyone though.
BaghdadBride- Thanks for the link!
Amanda- Those are the ferns that I was talking about! I am currently in love with ferns. I think I just need to learn how to use my scanner…
I change my mind a lot, but my recent project I’m doing for our escort cards / favors is using luggage tags shaped like cruise ships with each guest’s name. Then I’m going to somehow place them all standing in something blue (either blue sand, or blue turf, other suggestions welcome :)… ) I came up with the idea because we are doing a honey moon registry and going on a cruise, and I’d say 95% of the people attending travel so they’d get use of the luggage tags We were thikning of naming the tables by islands instead of numbers..
Our wedding has a fern theme so I’m dying to see this fern pictures. InStyle Weddings seems to have a new/better website now, but I couldn’t find the pic there (probably because I didn’t know which article to look under). If you have a chance and could search their website and see if you can find the pic, I’d really appreciate it.
Or…who is on the cover of this InStyle issue (which month’s issue is it)? I want to go to the book store and look!
Miss Peacock, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, PhD Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Internet Whiz
Engagement Date: December 5, 2006
Wedding Date: September, 2008
Blogging Since: December 13, 2007
Venue: St. Clement Church, Cafe Brauer (or a big church wedding and a fancy party at a cafe in Lincoln Park.
About Me: I am a grad student with a secret obsession for all things wedding related. I also love to read, travel, drink champagne and go for walks with our dog, Maisy, and Mr. Peacock. We are planning our very vintage wedding in the greatest city in the world, our hometown of Chicago. I am so proud to be a Bee!
We are talking about doing little cocktail umbrella set in sand (ala Martha). We are naming our tables after light houses we want to visit and asking our guests to voste on which one to go see first.