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If you remember back to when I was debating the trends of current weddings, I mentioned that I wanted to include mustaches since they are a stupid and fun part of my life, but that they would not be mustaches on sticks for a photo booth because we weren’t doing a photo booth. So, how did I incorporate them? Escort cards!

OK, I don’t know if they even count as escort cards since we didn’t really have assigned seating. But I made everyone a card with their name on it to mark their seat once they had picked one, so they wouldn’t get back from the bar and find someone had stolen their seat. I put a sign saying as much next to the table where they were laid out (in alphabetical order—I was somewhat organized!) I forget the exact wording of the sign, but it was something along the lines of, “Feel free to sit wherever you’d like. Place your name card at your spot to hold your seat!” And, in case you’re wondering, letting people sit wherever they wanted worked out fine. We made sure we had a whole extra table on top of the number of people we were expecting so people would have enough room to spread out, but not so much room that anyone was left at a table by him or herself. Everyone found friends to sit with and I didn’t hear any complaints about the situation.

Anyway, here are what the cards looked like, except instead of Beloved Guest, they had the person’s actual name, and the typography at the bottom wasn’t kind of wonky like it is in this picture.

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In case you can’t read it, it says “Be Your Own Evil Twin: We all know you would never misbehave at our wedding reception. No way! But your evil twin… well who knows? Please feel free to employ this mischievous facial hair as needed so no unruly behavior is unfairly attributed to you. Any blame will go directly to your evil twin, and your reputation will continue to shine.” I came up with this idea a while before the wedding, but didn’t actually put these together until the week of the wedding. I was really worried that people wouldn’t get it, but everyone I told about it thought I was being paranoid. Luckily, they were right and everyone got the joke and there were many people wandering around in their mustaches over the course of the night—including us!

Photo by Abby Troxell of Mary Wyar Photography, LLC

I don’t know if anyone is really dying for a tutorial on these, but I thought I could at least give a quick overview of the process. Items needed: fake mustaches (I bought them in bulk via Amazon), a glue stick, scissors, a corner rounder (optional) and note cards (I had extras already cut to size from my invitations).

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All I did was print out the message on each of the note cards, round the corners using the corner rounder, cut out the mustaches (still leaving the sticky paper attached on the back) and glue the mustaches to the note cards. It was pretty simple and took very little time. I was pleased with how they turned out, and they let everyone know that the reception was going to be fun and laid back the moment they walked in the building.

Did anyone else get creative with their escort cards, or find an unusual way to slip mustaches into their wedding?