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Maple Syrup Escort Cards

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Credit: Cassidy Rehwaldt
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Mini bottles of locally tapped maple syrup favors accompanied kraftpaper escort cards at this Vermont wedding.

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Matchbox Escort Cards

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Wrap matchboxes with pretty paper and write your guests' names on them for a great double-duty favor. The pattern or color of the paper dictates which table they're assigned to.

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Place Card Stationery

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Design personalized correspondence cards, which pull double duty as favors, to allow guests to find their seats.

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Maraca Escort Favors

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Calligraphed tags attached to small maracas is a fun way to provide guests with their table numbers at a Mexican destination wedding.

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Potted Place Card

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Credit: Anna Williams

Both place card and favor, these tiny terra-cotta pots with domes of velvety moss are spare yet elegant against a pristine white table -- perfect for a simple wedding.

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CD Seating Card

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A collection of this real wedding couple's favorite music acted as escort cards and favors guests could listen to long after the reception.

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Booklet Seating Card

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Petite handmade coral and aqua quotation books filled with favorite sayings about life and love serve as seating cards worth saving.

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Custom Deck of Cards

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A deck of cards atop an elegant place card acts as a favor guests can play with for years to come, and adds a touch of whismy to a formal table setting.

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Button Seating Cards

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Credit: Joseph De Leo

These button seating cards also serve to introduce guests to one another. Calligraph names on paper, then follow directions included with a button-making machine. Pin buttons to 2-by-3-inch card stock with numbers written on the bottom.

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Seating-Card Sacks

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Just pair a tag and a bag (with whatever goodies you choose inside) for an easy and economical favor that also serves as a seating card.

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Compass Escort Cards

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Play up a travel theme, stringing compasses containing paper calligraphed with guests' names and their seating assignments.

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Seating Card Favor Boxes

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Place small favors, such as truffles or small soaps, in rectangular boxes, and wrap in colorful solid and patterned papers. Print guests' names and table numbers onto adhesive-backed paper, cut out, and affix to the top of each box.

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Custom Pin Escort Cards

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Attached to each of these seating cards are buttons designed specially for each guest, making them great conversation starters and wedding souvenirs.

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Plant Place Card

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Play up local flora and fauna and show guests to their seats with a favor they can plant when they get home. This succulent fits the California landscape of this real wedding.

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Pecan Escort Boxes

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Boxes of pecans double as favors and are decorated with a vintage illustration indicating the table assignment.

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Faux-Flower Place Card

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In the winter, when seasonal flowers are more difficult to come by, fabric flowers make a pretty, wiltproof solution. These help guests find their seats, then become corsages or boutonnieres.

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Place-Card Holder Favors

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These elephant-shaped place card holders also served as take-home favors.

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Succulent Place Setting

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Name cards, tucked into succulents in white tea bowls, were positioned on moss-colored linen napkins and white plates.

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Trinket Plus Place Card

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For an ecclectic wedding theme, top each plate with a trinket that reflects the table's title, rather than specifiying with a number.

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Recycled Seat Assignments

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For an eco-friendly wedding, empty dog-food cans repurposed into take-home escort cards hold various succulents for guests to take home.

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Flower Top Box

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This place-card favor blooms with tiny paper flowers.

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Sweet Pea Place Cards

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For cute place settings that will grow and grow on your guests, fill tiny packets with the seeds of your favorite flower and stitch them onto simply printed seating cards.

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Fresh Flower Favors

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Each guest's name is attached to a fresh flower that was slipped into a small tube of water and hung from a dowel at this real wedding.

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    3 of 23 Place Card Stationery
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    5 of 23 Potted Place Card
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