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Unique Place Card Ideas for your Destination Wedding

Place Cards serve many practical purposes, including directing guests to their proper seats and sometimes indicated what they are to be served during the reception. As part of your table décor, they build on the theme of your destination wedding and help get the festivities at the reception rolling as guests arrive. They are an opportunity to let your personality as a couple stand out again, so why not get creative and come up with a totally unique idea? Some fun ideas to get you started are:

• For a beach wedding, incorporate the beach theme into your printed place cards and really drive it home with matching place card holders. Here is a set with a palm tree design that’s really lovely and can be customized in a variety of colors: http://www.invitationsbydawn.com

Other ideas can include seashells, fish, and starfish. For a laid-back beach wedding, you could work in sunglasses or flip flops or even write guests’ names on sand shovels to mark their places at tables.

• To play up the travel theme, why not create postcards to use as place cards? They could include photos of you as a couple or photos of the location of the wedding. If postcards don’t appeal to you, perhaps the traditional luggage tag will. Available in a wide variety of styles, colors, and materials, the luggage tag also acts as a favor for your guest to take home. Wedding Favors Unlimited has a great assortment for great prices.

• For a wedding in Mexico, even if it’s on the beach, you can play up the idea of a fiesta, using place cards printed with chili peppers, sombreros, or even flamenco dancers. Likewise, you can find festive holders for the place cards as well.

• It’s always fun when the place card holder is something your guests can use again, like the luggage tags mentioned before, or a photo frame with the place and date engraved on it, or something else clever you find that they will be able to take with them and actually use.

Whatever your heart desires, you will likely be able to find with the plethora of wedding favor and decoration websites, catalogs and stores around. So just browse, think about your theme, colors, and guests, and find place cards that you love and that your guests will enjoy!