escort card question

kmleon83

i'm starting to work on escort card labels but i'm not sure how to word some of them. for instance, i don't have fully families coming for a few of them, it's a mother and 1 or 2 children. would i just word it "the smith family, table 3" or mrs. amy smith & ms. valerie smith?

advice?!

getting down to the wire now ladies! i can't even believe it!!

mspurr

If the children are adults, I personally think they should have their own escort card.  If they are children, I would just put & family.

cronin85

I actually just did mine yesterday but I set it up a little differently.  I actually put my cousins at a different table then their parents (table right next to them).  I worded mine as "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" Table 1  and then I did "John & Jane Smith"- Table 2.. But, if I was you I would just put "Smith family", unless you want to do individual cards for each person?!

volleygurl0306

Agree with PP.  It is okay to put "family " even if the whole family isn't coming.  It would be rude to do that on an invite if the whole family weren't invited (for a lot of reasons).  But, on the escort card, they know who you mean.  The only reason I wouldn't do this is if you suspect someone might still bring the declined family members because then you wouldn't have enough seats/meals.

kmleon83

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[QUOTE]I actually just did mine yesterday but I set it up a little differently.  I actually put my cousins at a different table then their parents (table right next to them).  I worded mine as "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" Table 1  and then I did "John & Jane Smith"- Table 2.. But, if I was you I would just put "Smith family", unless you want to do individual cards for each person?!
Posted by cronin85[/QUOTE]

i am doing this too, for my first cousins. aunts & uncles at one table, kids at another.

but then i invited my second cousin and her husband but he can't come and she "replaced" him with her daughter, who wasn't initially invited. so i just want to word it right.

thanks! :)

cronin85

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: escort card question : i am doing this too, for my first cousins. aunts & uncles at one table, kids at another. but then i invited my second cousin and her husband but he can't come and she "replaced" him with her daughter, who wasn't initially invited. so i just want to word it right. thanks! :)
Posted by kmleon83[/QUOTE]

Maybe list the second cousin as "Mrs. Jane Smith & (daughters name)"  or "Mrs. Jane Smith & guest"

Ravenclaw79

I'm just doing one for each person.

calindi

You're doing groups?

I put individual names.

So:

Mr. & Mrs. John Smith
Table 1


Or, for a guest with a date:

Mr. John Smith
Ms. Jane Jones
Table 1

Or for a family with two kids:

Mr. & Mrs. John Smith
Miss Sarah & Master James