Wedding place cards are more than seating charts

Wedding place cards are the traditional way of showing your reception and wedding guests exactly where they will be sitting during the dinner and reception portions of your festivities. Traditionally, wedding place cards are simple, elegant markers, often written in calligraphy on plain white or cream colored tent cards. However, many modern brides are seeing wedding place cards in a whole new light and are using wedding place cards as ways of lending to the theme of their wedding and reception… or even completely breaking away from that theme. Why not see your wedding place cards in much the same way and use them as a means to help your guests enjoy their time at your wedding even more?

Place cards are only used in sit-down reception situations, so if you will be having a stand-up or cocktails style reception chances are you won’t even have to worry about wedding place cards at all. If you will be using wedding place cards, a good place to start is at a stationery store. Consultants there can show you examples of a wide variety of wedding place cards, but most will be of the more traditional variety. If you love that tradition, then by all means have the standard wedding place cards! It’s your wedding and your decision. If you would like to go a little bit outside the box, then start thinking about your place cards in a more creative way.

Place cards can help encourage the theme of your wedding. For instance, if you will be married in a seaside locale and are having something of an ocean theme to your wedding, your wedding place cards could reference different oceans or beaches. One table could be Atlantic City, another Hawaii, another Rehoboth, and so on, then your guests can find out which beach they will be attending by you writing the beach on their wedding place cards. For a little more fun, use the place cards as a raffle for the centerpieces. Make a small mark on one of the wedding place cards at each table, and whoever finds the mark gets the centerpiece! See, wedding place cards don’t just have to be a roadmap to your reception!