MAYDAY!!!! Creative girls, need some help!

EmilyL113

So, our tables are all named after famous horses.  For the place cards, I have to have them anchored, as our wedding is on a pier, and they will blow away otherwise.  So, I recruited an etsy seller to make me little beaded horseshoes to tie the escorts cards to with a ribbon and kinda pull our "horse" theme together... Wellll - the seller has just flaked out on me.  She's become completely unresponsive, and it's really looking like she's not going to come through - I was supposed to have them at the end of Feb and she hasn't replied to my last 2 e-mails (over the course of about 2 weeks).  WTF??!!!  So, now I'm at square one!  And what really sucks is that the cards were made smaller than usual b/c of the fact that we were tying them to the horseshoes.  UGH ... I have no idea what to do???  Any ideas on a last minute escort card anchor??  Any advice is appreciated...

TrudM75

That stinks that she bailed on you like that! 
I am not exactly creative - so usually my solution is to buy something  I am not sure how much you want to spend, but something like this could maybe work, you would probably just need to remove the bow that it comes with:

http://www.favorfavor.com/page/FF/PROD/6447

jtoly

Can you find another etsy seller? I do think the horseshoe idea is cute.

EmilyL113

TRUDY!!!!  My hero... I've been looking all day and couldn't find anything like this haha!  As long as they can ship them to me asap, I'm doing it!  Keep ya posted!   You girls are the bomb!

ehlerss

It sounds like you may have found your solution! Thank god!!! I just wanted to say WTF is wrong with that seller!  Make sure you give them a crap review.  It is terrible that she flaked out on you last minute.  That is a stress you do not need right now!

TrudM75

Oh good!  I hope it works and they can ship them in time!  Or maybe you can have them shipped directly to the hotel if you explain the situation, I am sure it would be okay! 
(oh boy - I just hope they look nice in person since I found them :-)

EmilyL113

Hehe... I read the reivews - they're all good!!  It's gonna have to work.  Here's my only question though - is this ok to just give one per couple?  They only point was to weigh down the escort cards (which I obviously have couples on them).  I did give everyone those lotto ticket favors that will be at their seat... that's ok right?  I don't see many dudes actually using these as keychains anyway haha!

I'll just have my mom find a way to put the escort cards on them... I certainly wish I hadn't made the escort cards smaller than normal, but oh well!  Tooooo late now - we'll find a way to make it work!

niknik15

Here is another option if you want something a little bigger and heavier.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/370302124231?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y&cbt=y

EmilyL113

Thanks Nik - those are cool too!!!  I had such a hard time with this b/c my wedding isn't rustic in ANY way - it's like bright spring colors.  My FI was just looking for a way to tie in some KY culture, so I wanted really girly looking horseshoes hehe! 

nicolej518

I think one per couple should be fine!! If you're going to keep it as a keychain, you could either punch a small hole or slide the card between the keyring part of it. I think that might work best because the paper may crinkle if you punch the hole then try to wind it around there. Or you could just use a small ribbon to tie it around the key ring if you do punch the hole. 

TrudM75

I agree that one per couple is totally fine!