Creative Cards

By Liza Tanner

Lately I have seen some of the most creative escort cards! I love any detail that adds a personal touch, and escort cards are a great way to do so while continuing the look and color palette of a wedding in a fun, creative way. 

One of my absolute favorites was at my friend Katie’s wedding at the Audubon Naturalist Society’s Woodend Sanctuary. Her mother, Laura Anthony, is a wonderful artist, and she and her friend Nancy Murphy painted a guest’s name and a specific bird on each escort card to signify their table assignment. It was a labor of love, as was the attached favor for each guest: home-baked cookies and the recipes for the mother of the bride’s and the mother of the groom’s signature confections. The ensemble was both beautiful and delicious!

Another favorite was a creation we did with Jack Lucky of Jack Lucky Floral Design. For a summer wedding at a bride’s waterfront home in Easton, Maryland, we continued the couple’s color palette of citrus green, lemon yellow and white by creating a display of white crates filled with stephanotis blossoms and lemons pinned with leaf escort cards, which were calligraphed in a whimsical font by Kathryn Murray.

For another recent Pineapple wedding, the couple commissioned Nancy Howell to illustrate the event floorplan and calligraph the guest names and table numbers on separate sheets of paper, which were then sewn on a burlap-covered board with red yarn. The couple can also frame the drawing as a special memento from their wedding day.