Place cards vs seating chart

I was going to do something super cute and elaborate, but we are just having the lady who's making our invites make our cards. I don't think anyone remembers them, and if you hand write them it's easy to add one real quick if you need to.

Adriana, that's a great idea to order from one Staples to another. Thanks for the tip for brides who travel for weddings!

Melissa, you are referring to escort cards, not place cards. Escort cards are displayed alphabetically to help guests find their assigned table. Place cards are found at the table to indicate assigned seats at the table.

It's also easier to make last minute changes with escort cards. Order a few extrs.

I'm having a similar dilemma. I love the idea of a framed seating chart, but ordering the actual chart at the last minute just seems like such a huge headache. We are either displaying tented escort cards on a table, or flat escort cards attached to a "find your seat" kind of board. Seems like a much less stressful way to account for last minute changes.

I'm doing place cards this time because for my first wedding we had two no-shows and a crasher and the hand-written stuff on the seating chart was really obvious and bothered me a lot.

I think escort cards are perfect. I think seating charts are often more difficult to read and can be kind of an eyesore unless they are done really nicely.