Escort Card Wording?

megannie

Hi. I have a question regarding escort cards.

I have three situations:

The couple is married, but she retains her name: Mr U, and Ms. W.

The couple is in a serious relationship, lives together, but is not married: Mr. M, and Ms. G.

The couple is in a serious relationship, but doesn't live together: Ms. B and Mr. Z.

I was told to put married couples on one card: Mr. and Mrs. W., but am not sure what to do in the above situations. Do they still go on one card? And if so, how would it be worded? And then as far as alphabetical order, does it go under his last initial or hers?

Or do I list them separately?

Thanks in advance for your help!

AddieCake

We did one per person as well. We couldn't have fit 2 names on ours anyway, but I think we still would have done it that way. It just makes life easier when you don't have to worry about all the "special circumstances." 

manjermj

We gave everyone their own escort card. Much much easier. 

Kate61487

Ditto PP.  We did one per person to avoid situations like this.  Also because I think kids think it's fun to have their own escort card and we had a lot of kids.

But if it's too late to change:  If you're doing couples together I'd do couples together across the board.  List them just as you did above "Mr. A & Ms. B".  and "&" is okay here even if they're not married.  I'd list my friend first if it was friend & date, but if you're equally close to both do ladies first.  I'd try to make the formatting fit so each name has it's own line; i.e.:

Ms Suzie Doe
& Mr John Smith

it will be eaier for them to skim for the last name if it's at the end of the line.  Alphabetically put it with the person listed first on the card (so friend or female)Honestly, I think it would take a REALLY dense person to see a whole bunch of cards with two names per card and not realize that *maybe* it's alphabetized under their SOs name if they can't find it right away so either way they should be capable of finding it.

tiny speck

I also am doing 1 per person. It just makes things easier, in my opinion.

jemmini6

I did one per person too, much simpler that way.