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Escort Cards

ericav123ericav123 member
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I wasn't sure how you would put names, if it was all individual or by couple, etc.   I read that you can do escort cards like you did your invitations. For married couples, together on one, unmarried couples, together on one with separate names, etc.

If we are doing a plated meal, can you still do that, and have two stickers or symbols on the back of the cards so the servers know their meal choice?

At other weddings I've been to they just collect the cards and then count how many of each, and bring it to the table and ask "who had the chicken", etc.

But Should I follow my invitation format and  still put Mr and Mrs. John Smith for couples, etc?
 Or put them separately with their name and title? I'm sure I can do it however I want, but I guess I'm asking, what would you do and what is considered "proper?

Mrs. Sally Smith
Mr. John Smith 

or
Sally and John
 Smith

What if they have children? Same card, use their name? put "The Smith Family?"


Sigh. This is the stuff that drives me crazy!
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    singinchick13singinchick13 member
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    We are just doing individual cards (ie. everyone gets their own). This makes things easier in pretty much every situation and takes away the guesswork. Full names with titles will be used. It would probably work better if your meal selections are on them as well.
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    mlg78mlg78 member
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    We weren't as formal and just put Sally & John Smith on the cards...
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    HisGirlFriday13HisGirlFriday13 member
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    We did one card/couple, and addressed it the same way we did the invitations -- i.e., Mr. Bob Smith and Mrs. Sally Smith, or Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jones, depending on their preferences.

    Kids (there were five; my 2.5-year-old nephew, DH's 8-year-old nephew, my college roommate's baby, and then my cousin's kids) got their own card, addressed by Mr./Miss Firstname Lastname. The parents told us those kids who could read (all of them except the infant) LOVED having their own card with their own name on it, and my college roommate loved having that for her daughter's baby book -- she was exactly two months old the day of our wedding, so it was her first "outing" that wasn't church or a family member's house.

    BUT -- we had a buffet, so we didn't have to do meal choices. We figured one escort card/couple was good enough for them to know where they were sitting (obviously, couples were seated together), and since I made them by hand, I didn't want to make more than I had to.

    I would think, if you're having RSVP or table-side ordering, you could just mark the cards twice (chicken/beef/vegetarian/whatever) and then have the wait staff come around, collect the cards, and say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, which of you ordered the beef and which of you ordered the chicken?"
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    I'm gonna go with 'not my circus, not my monkeys.'
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