Guests' names and table numbers were displayed on a bed of fresh herbs and flowers like peonies and asters.

A large chart helped guests easily find their table assignments at this outdoor California wedding.

For a wedding bringing together two Texan music lovers, concert ticket-inspired escort cards were printed on cardboard and clipped to twine to adorn trees at the outdoor reception site.

Seating cards seem to sprout from greenery in a weathered stone urn. Each card has a wire "stem" that's been tucked into the moss.

Calligraphed tags, displayed in vintage shutters, serve as escort cards.

Elegantly calligraphed tags with seating assignments are tied to an iron screen.

Escort cards are tucked into string wrapped around a teak tree stump along the pathway to an outdoor dinner tent.

To fit a rustic theme, guests find their seats thanks to cards displayed in small scored logs.

Escort cards, hand-painted with table numbers and clipped to a ribbon, wrap around an oak tree.

A yard-sale find can infuse a wedding with unique touches. This dark wooden stand was probably meant to display postcards but functions as a seating chart here.

Escort card tags typed with a vintage typewriter are tied to olive branches -- an extension of the a dove wedding theme.

Round trays filled with sand and seashells corral escort cards together for an outdoor reception.

Escort cards bearing crests with the couple's initials are nailed to a stack of firewood for this cozy Colorado wedding.

Inspired by natural surroundings, escort cards are placed in an old wooden box lined with burlap and filled with lavender.

This real bride worked with her florist to display escort cards in a bed of fresh grass.

These calligraphed cards, in etheral shades of blue, white, and brown, are rubber-stamped with butterflies and table numbers.

For a rustic seasonal touch, pinecones separate rows of place cards at Maria and Robert's fall wedding; each dinner table, instead of having a number, was named after a different Oregon coniferous tree.

To hold the escort cards, teak boards are cut to the width of the table and then given deep, angled slits; envelopes calligraphed with brown ink enclose table numbers.

Show your ingrained sense of style with seating cards crafted from paper-thin wood veneer.

Banners bearing guests' calligraphed names seem to billow in a gentle breeze. The butterfly wires are attached to skewers covered with floral tape.

Feather butterflies from BJ's Craft Supplies. Calligraphy by Deborah Delaney, 212-877-8773.

This pretty display keeps seating cards from being blown away by a breeze.

To make it, cut a sheet of decorative paper to fit a tabletop. Use a T square and pencil to lightly draw two parallel lines 1/4 inch apart for each card. With a utility knife, cut slits a bit longer than the card's height; slide cards into place. Attach paper to tabletop with double-sided tape.

Miniature envelopes holding stamped table assignments are pinned to a fabric-covered board and propped on an easel.

If you're saying your "I do"s on a beach, balmy, breezy weather is no match for these escort cards secured with lengths of decorative ribbon.

A birch branch makes a simple escort-card holder that echoes a naturally sophisticated vibe.

Table numbers and escort cards stamped with DIY designs dangle from a clothesline wrapped neatly around a large tree.

Seating cards are secured to colorful ribbon with tiny clothespins for guests to take their assignments.

Seating cards are pinned onto a bed of moss.

These tags were designed to look like cameras, in honor of the bride's profession, and were strung on outdoor furniture.

Each table at this reception was named for a tree indigenous to Tennessee, and escort cards were displayed elegantly in framed foam boards.

A painted screen-door displays card-stock escort cards attached to skeleton keys.

Escort cards are pinned to a screen at the entrance to the reception tent at this real wedding.

Escort cards are clothespinned to twine lines hung between pine saplings.

White escort cards with calligraphy rest atop a bed of smooth-edged blue sea glass that keep cards anchored.