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Miss Fondue-
Are you referring to people reusing them as in taking them home with them at the end of the night to use them again?
Well, please don’t take this the wrong way, because I LOVE the coasters. I think they look AMAZING, and I think they will be great at the wedding, and you will get great pictures of the bartender serving up drinks on the coasters. BUT, that said, the way I see it…. people come in two varieties… coaster people, or non-coaster people. As in, the people who care about their end tables and want coasters down, and the people who don’t. And people who are coaster people probably have nice coasters already, and probably wouldn’t display coasters with your initials on them, you know? I just feel like I wind up with lots of wedding favors with someone else’s initials on them, and I never really know what to do with them… am I supposed to have things with someone another person’s monogram out in my home? It always just seemed funny to me… so I always wind up either throwing them away, or tossing it in a drawer and forgetting about it.
But actually using the coasters during the wedding, I think, would be totally brilliant. It’s a great touch of personalization, and I love that it’s a coaster and not just a cocktail napkin because I hate how if your drink sweats, it always tears through the cocktail napkin, especially if you’re picking up your drink a lot, which you tend to do at a wedding when you move from place to place. I, at least, would be SUPER impressed with monogrammed coasters in lieu of the standard little napkin.

@Miss Fondue: Oooooh, I see. Hmm, well, are you having separate bars for cocktail hour and for the reception? I’ve been to wedding set up both ways — at my wedding, we had our cocktail hour upstairs on the top floor of the building, and then everyone went down 34 flights… but I’ve been to weddings where it was all in one room. If they are in separate rooms/locations, I’d estimate using one per person for the bar in each location, because I think if there is any kind of movement, even if it’s just down a hallway, people will be more likely to leave them behind, if you want them to use them throughout the evening (if you are having an open bar all evening… not sure if you are… but if you are having mixed drinks, why not?! they would also be equally fabulous on your dinner table under a highball glass), plus if moving from cocktail hour to dinner, people will need a hand to pick up escort cards, etc. But if you are only using them during cocktail hour, then I would think that at least the females would hang on to them, because they are cute, and memorable, and they won’t disintegrate the way a cocktail napkin would, whereas men are oblivious, so the way I work would be to make estimate making 150% the number of your guest list, if that makes sense. I really, really love the idea of giving them to your bartender… I wish I could have thought of this for MY wedding, because I have a bazillion blank coasters that I was going to Gocco with our logo or something but I didn’t know what to do with them, since I didn’t want to give them as favors. Argh! The bartender! Obviously!