| The escort card is an important part of a wedding | | | | pinch, get a piece of sod from a landscaper. Trim the |
| reception. Without it, your guests would not know | | | | edge of the grass square with a thin strip of wood or |
| where to sit for dinner. But most of these cards are | | | | bamboo. The escort cards can be lined up in tidy rows |
| pretty boring; a white or ivory "tent" card with the | | | | on the bed of grass. This little project takes a minimal |
| name of each guest (or couple) written on it in black | | | | effort, but will pay big dividends in the style department. |
| ink. Although you need them, you do not need to limit | | | | For a beach wedding, there are many great ways to |
| yourself to the standard form, especially when you are | | | | do your seating cards. One very pretty look is to get a |
| having your wedding outside. Check out these fresh | | | | bunch of starfish. Tie a strip of paper to each one |
| ideas for escort cards to be used at outdoor | | | | bearing the name of a guest and their table number. |
| weddings. | | | | The starfish will look fantastic laid out on a table at the |
| Your escort cards are a great place to do something | | | | entrance to your reception. Another idea is to lay |
| creative. It is great if you can come up with a unique | | | | pretty sea green vellum escort cards over a bed of |
| format that also fits in well with the general theme or | | | | smooth seaglass in shades of blue and green. One |
| feeling of your wedding. For instance, let's say that you | | | | other really cute beach escort card concept is to write |
| are having a casual country wedding in your backyard | | | | the names on little paper parasols (like the kind that |
| with the bride in a linen dress and handmade wedding | | | | come in tropical drinks) and plant them into a bed of |
| jewelry. Ditch the formal white tent cardstock in favor | | | | sand. |
| of something more relaxed and original. | | | | Your escort cards do not even have to be traditional |
| A length of clothesline serves as a great place to | | | | notecards. If you are having an elegant style outdoor |
| display your seating cards. Arrange them alphabetically | | | | wedding, the sort where the bride wears a really |
| and use clothespins to clip each one to the clothesline. | | | | graceful wedding dress and handmade jewelry, a very |
| As a bonus, intersperse photos of the bride and groom | | | | fresh look would be to use a gold marker to inscribe |
| or old family photos between the escort cards by | | | | names onto a piece of fruit such as a pear. It is the |
| pinning them to the rope between about every eighth | | | | epitome of the simple but elegant effect that so many |
| or tenth card. Your friends will love strolling down | | | | brides strive for as their wedding design. |
| memory lane as they look for their dinner assignment. | | | | With a little creativity, you will find that there are all |
| It is great to bring elements of your wedding setting | | | | sorts of unusual and fantastic escort cards that will suit |
| into your displays. If you are having your reception in a | | | | an outdoor wedding. You can really have fun picking |
| field, a neat way to arrange the table cards is to | | | | something out of the ordinary. Clever escort cards are |
| "plant" them in a tabletop field of wheatgrass. You can | | | | a great way to take something that you need and turn |
| easily grow your own patch of wheatgrass, or in a | | | | it into a really stylish addition to your wedding reception. |