Escort cards, table cards, whatever you must call them...the cards guests use to know what table they sit at is what I am trying to get at. I wanted them to be super adorable! Since the wedding was in winter and had some holiday touches I thought---cut out cookies! We decided to go with cut-outs with a tag on them, kind of like you would find on a little gift, with the names and tables the guests would park themselves for dinner.
The cookies were done by my bridesmaid, Lindsay's, sister, Emily. She is a pastry chef and so talented. I really didn't give her a whole lot of direction other than what I was thinking and the colors and left it up to her bc I knew whatever she did would turn out sooo amazing and they did! *Emily charged me $1.75 a cookie, I bought 80 cookies from her, spent $150 total on the cookies.
For the cards I found a purple (with a little shimmer) paper card stock ($.99 a sheet, 5 sheets needed) in the scrap booking section of the craft store and then for the other layer I used the off white card stock ($3 per stack, not sure how many sheet we pulled out of here) I used for my programs. I also found some champagne gold ribbon ($.99 cents a roll, 1 roll needed) to tie the cards on the cookies. Bc my brain is the only thing artistic, Lindsay actually assisted helping me make the cards. Below are the steps she took (and her handwriting is a bazillion times cuter than mine!). *total cost for the cards was under $10!
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| Supplies. |
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| Here is the paper that we used. |
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| Paper with the ribbon. |
Supplies used for this were:
- Paper cutter
- Hole Punch
- Corner Cutter (if you have one)
- Glue
- Scissors
- Ruler
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| Measurements for the cards. The white paper was 8x10 the purple was 12 x12. |
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| The paper cutter was nice to have bc the paper size could be measured and cut at the same time. |
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| This is the corner cutting Lindsay had, it was nifty and made the cards little more formal. |
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| This is what a finished card looks like with the ribbon. |
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| These are our special "Bride" & "Groom" cookies with tag attached. |
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| Here is an example of what a guest would get with our monogram, other cookies had snowflakes on as well. |
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| Cookies all ready to be displayed at the reception. |
I think these turned out really cute! Emily was able to match the colors on the cookies exactly to the paper, she also put some shimmer and pearls on the cookies so they were as fancy as we were that night! I loved this idea! Thank you Lindsay and Emily!! <3
