While choosing wedding place cards make sure that you need them. Decide on your budget, ensure that the cards reflect your wedding themes, and go for materials that go with the theme and the budget.
The wedding place cards may be used at receptions to assign each and every guest invited to the reception, to a table. The seating arrangements are made as much for organization as to make sure that every guest has a seat and none is left standing around. While not needed at small receptions, the place cards come in very handy if you were to have large weddings with a multitude of guests. You could arrange so that you have the family and close friends nearby at the head table or the surrounding tables, while other folks who may not be required at hand are seated farther away. Here are some tips, which would help you choose the cards –
1. Your Budget – There are many different types of wedding place cards available. You could get simple cards, which look like business cards, or you could have folded cards, which would stand on their own. You could use different types of card stands as well. Depending on the elaborateness the price of the cards will vary. Hence decide on your budget first.
2. Theme – Whatever color scheme or theme you use for the wedding, make sure that the wedding place cards match that. For example if you are having a butterfly wedding the place holders may be shaped like butterflies or have butterflies printed on them.
3. Info You Want Them to Hold – It is not necessary that the wedding place cards hold only the names of people. You may have them contain menus as well which would allow your guests to choose the items that they want. In any case if you need more information, then bigger cards will be needed and that would change the costs and put constraints on the designs that you use.
4. Folding or Plain – If you go for folding wedding place cards then they would stand on their own and you do not have to go for stands. If you are going to have the cards that cannot stand on their own then you will have to have stands.
5. Material – You could have the wedding place cards made of simple plain paper or more expensive materials. Choose a material that would go with your design decision.
The wedding place cards are very useful at large receptions. They would prevent clutter and would also, if chosen well, add to the charm of the seating.