Weddingbee Blog

In my last post about paper flowers, I showed you this picture:

(yep, the same flowers Mrs. Poodle made a million of!)

After I mentioned I was at a loss for what to do with these lovely flowers for our reception, Mrs. Hot Cocoa pointed me towards Mrs. Bell Pepper’s escort cards and that’s when I knew I had to try it. Escort flowers! Mrs. Bell Pepper made her petals freehand and the part I liked most were the leaves with the seating information.

(Mrs. Bell Pepper’s escort cards)

Another version of flowers-with-leaves escort cards that I really liked were Mrs. Stilettos:

(photo from Mrs. Stiletto’s details recap post, how she made them in this post)

My flowers are a little different though, because of their depth - and I couldn’t figure out a way to put the leaf coming out of the side like these due to the cone-like shape at the base of these flowers. My solution was to try cutting the bottoms off of the flowers:

(the flower on the right I just made with scrap gray paper)

I did this so that the flower could sit flat on the table, in a way that the blue flower on the left cannot:

(pointy blue flower, flat-bottomed gray flower)

This way, the flower can sit top side up on the table and I can attach the leaves I want to use underneath, to the bottom of the flower instead of the side:

(Escort card super rough draft mockup)

I just cut these leaves freehand out of some white paper to get an idea but I seriously need to find a better leaf design. The actual escort cards would be blue paper flowers with pale yellow leaves that have the name on one leaf and the table number on the second, as you see in this draft. However as usual it seems, I’ve solved one problem only to create another! Now that these flowers have a flat bottom so I can set them flat on a table, there’s a gaping hole in the bottom where I had to cut the points off!

(draft flower from the top, bottom and side views)

I really want the flower to be able to sit on the table, which means the pointy bottom has to go, but what do I do about the fact that you can now see through the flower?! My only thought is to cut out a round piece of paper and glue it to the bottom, to which the leaves will also be glued, but that seems like it might be a messy solution once the guests pick up the flowers to take to the tables. Any ideas?

Are you doing nontraditional escort ’cards’? What are your favorite escort/place cards that you’ve seen?