Escort Card

kjerl

SIngles, Married Couples, and Families are easy enough to write, but I am unsure how to write a few cards for:

Couples that aren't married - (one card with both names or one card per person?)
Unwed Couple with Child
Single Parent with Child, bringing a guest

unchatenfrance

I would put the name of the friend/relative being invited (the one who would be invited even if they were single, etc.) and list their partner's name on the same card in the case of the unwed couple. For the other situations I put "x and family". It's easiest to keep the "parties" together on one escort card.

LeiselEB

For unmarried couples we did:

Ms. Jane Smith

Mr. John Doe

Table 1

Unmarried couple with child

Ms. Jane Smith and Mr. John Doe

Sally Smith

Mom, guest, and child

Ms. Jane Smith

Mr. John Doe

Sally Smith

We gave gives their own cards just because we thought they might like it. So that's an option as well. 

AlexaNP

I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is, but I can tell you what I would look for as a guest.

Unmarried couple: I would prefer if both our names would've been on one card.  If the invite is due to the man, then Mr. John Doe & Ms. Jane Smith.  If the invite is due to the woman, then vice versa.  And if you are equally close to both invitees, then I believe the woman's name is listed first.  (If you went by etiquette and listed the woman first even if you are closer to the man, I would probably be confused and look for his name first.)

Unmarried couple with child: I would follow the same guidelines as above but add "and Susie".  Since it is a child, I probably wouldn't put the last name.  Depending on how much space is on your escort cards and how they are set up, you could possibly list "Susie" underneath the parents' names.

Single parent with child, bringing a guest: This would be a little more tricky. I am going to run into this situation with mine too (assuming she RSVPs yes). I suppose I would put "Ms. Jane Smith and Susie and Mr. John Doe" or "Ms. Jane Smith and Susie and Guest" if she doesn't know who she's bringing. I wouldn't want to put the child's name last, because it might imply that it was the child of both guests. Again, not sure what proper etiquette woudl be. Those are just my thoughts. If you don't care about putting all the names, you could also go with "Ms. Jane Smith Party".

StephJean83

At the weddings I've gone to that had escort cards each indivual person had their own card.  In the event that the couple didn't know my or my dates name(depending on if I was invited or my FH was invited) they did the escort cards as "Jane Smith Table 1" "Jane Smith GuestTable 1" or "John Doe Table 1" "John Doe Guest Table 1". If they knew my name and my FH names, the escort cards would say "John Doe Table 1" "Jane Smith Table 1" and would be listed in alphabetical order by last names or they would have the escort cards with our names on individual cards, in an envelope with the name of who was invited. I actually have never seen escort cards with both names on the same card. Is it some faux pas to have individual escort cards for each guest? I have always seen the escort cards as a way for servers to know what each guest is eating for plated dinners. My question would be if you are doing a plated dinner, how will the server know that Jane Smith is to have the chicken dish and John Doe is to have the fish dish, if both names go one escort card? Would you indicate by different colors for the fonts of the names?