Wedding Invitations & Paper

Addressing escort cards

My original plan was to have individual escort cards for each person but we've found that many of FI's friends haven't figured out who they will be bringing as dates and some are unlikely to until the day of. Blah.

So now I'm planning on creating them by couple. I now have a few questions:

1. Do I use formal titles like Mr. and Mrs? Or just stick to first/last?
2. Should I list both names on the same line (where possible)? or create separate lines? For example:

"David Smith
Kathy Smith"

or

"David and Kathy Smith"

or

"David Smith and Kathy Smith"

or

"Mr. David and Mrs. Kathy Smith"

3. When I have kids on the card, how do I handle them? 1 seems easy but not sure when there are 3...

My family is of no use on this matter! My mom thinks I should use a seating chart because it worked well at my sister's wedding. I just know that with 160 people - many of whom are much older - escort cards will be much easier.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Addressing escort cards

  • I'm making a seating chart and I'm using escort cards.  Overkill possibly but my mother insisted "people will want to see who they're sitting with" so I made the seating chart because it just wasn't a hill I was willing to die on. I have to have cards for each person because the venue requires them for meal choices so that was that. 

    Our escort cards are one per person (again, because the venue needs it this way for meal choices) and right now I think they're going to read "Mr. John Smith" for him and "Mrs. Jane Smith" for hers and if they have children the appropriate "Mr./ Ms./ Miss" as well. We don't have anyone bringing a guest that we don't have a name for so I'm no help there unfortunately.
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  • I did them by couples.  If they had younger kids I used John & Jane Doe and family.  I hand wrote mine, so I didn't worry about names on certain lines or anything, just whatever fit best.  I don't think you need to worry too much about that!
  • I'm definitely printing because my handwriting is appalling! My plan was to use a simple mail merge. We'll see how that goes!
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