another question about escort cards

soon to be mrs pham

do people each get their own card or do you typically put eery one in a family or couple on one card?

gpapale1

I think you can do either one.  I actually haven't decided how I want to do ours yet...I'm leaning towards doing one couple/family per card because it will be less writing and will take up less space on a table.

vineyard12

Not everyone gets their own. I would do it as couples and families. For example: John and Nacy Smith
Table 5

if it's a family (ie- parents and their kids):
John, Nacy, Jason, and Erica Smith
Table 5

If everyone had their own, and you had like 200 people, you would have to make 200 cards!

LuckyHeather

I am doing one for each person (250 people), but we are having a seated dinner so the wait staff will need to know each person's choice.

vineyard12

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[QUOTE]I am doing one for each person (250 people), but we are having a seated dinner so the wait staff will need to know each person's choice.
Posted by LuckyHeather[/QUOTE]

That's a good point....

mandi921vh

You could do either, but it seems like for caterers to know who ordered what you may want to do everyone's names versus a couple or family.

Cackle6

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[QUOTE]I am doing one for each person (250 people), but we are having a seated dinner so the wait staff will need to know each person's choice.
Posted by LuckyHeather[/QUOTE]

<div>Ditto this. Although I have seen cards that have two meal options on them (A C for chicken on the left side, and S for steak on the right, and hopefully the couple rememers what they ordered). For families, I would do one for each since the parents might not be sitting next to each other so they can take care of their kids.</div>

bpphoto785

<div>We are doing one per couple/family. </div><div>
</div>[QUOTE]In Response to Re: another question about escort cards :  Although I have seen cards that have two meal options on them (A C for chicken on the left side, and S for steak on the right, 
Posted by Cackle6[/QUOTE]

<div>We don't have to put the meal option on the escort card but if we did that's how I'd do it. </div><div>
</div><div>To be honest if FI & I had separate escort cards, he wouldn't even grab his, he would just follow me to our table. </div>

S0095042

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[QUOTE]You could do either, but it seems like for caterers to know who ordered what you may want to do everyone's names versus a couple or family.
Posted by mandi921vh[/QUOTE]

this. Both ways are both 100% acceptable, it's up to what you need the escort cards to do...

mdoyle1217

Our escort cards are also our favors, so we are doing one for every person.

soon to be mrs pham

okay it seems to me i may just do one per couple because we dont need a count of who gets what for the caterer

(bufet style)

AurorasEnvy

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[QUOTE]I am doing one for each person (250 people), but we are having a seated dinner so the wait staff will need to know each person's choice.
Posted by LuckyHeather[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>This.  Otherwise you can do it per couple/family, as long as they are all seated at the same table.  Or you don't have to do escort cards at all if they don't need to indicate the guest's meal selection, you could just make it simple and do a seating chart!

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dori851

We are doing one card per couple/family.