Best Alcoholic Wedding Escort Card Ideas

Champagne glass escort card display with round red and white cards on a greenery wall — Photo by Chi-Chi Ari Photography

As your wedding guests move from the ceremony to the reception, they will likely need some help finding their seats. Escort cards are the perfect way to guide everyone to their pre-determined seats. While the sky’s the limit when it comes to creating clever displays with cards or seating charts, one of our favorite ways to direct loved ones to their tables involves something that may help lift spirits as the wedding continues: alcohol. A hand-written card attached to a straw in a cocktail glass or a custom-printed label on a liquor bottle can provide all the info guests need to keep your reception and the drinks flowing.

Looking for inspiration for your own alcoholic escort cards? Whether you want to create a Champagne wall seating chart or offer guests a mini bottle of your favorite liquor, we rounded up plenty of fun ideas for your celebration ahead.

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Break Out the Bourbon Bottles

Bourbon escort card bottle with a calligraphy adorned sticker and a calligraphed tag on a floral display — Photo by Kay English Photography

Let your escort cards nod to your wedding destination by providing guests with a bottle of a local spirit. For example, this small bottle of bourbon with a calligraphed label and seating details would serve as the perfect favor at a Kentucky wedding.

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Offer Single-Serve Limoncello Bottles

White tented bar at reception with limoncello bottles, bowls of lemons, and potted floral arrangements of lemons, greenery, delphinium, and white peonies — Photo by Kelsey Halm Photography

Limoncello is a popular spirit in Italy, but it can serve as a boozy and beautiful favor for guests at weddings taking place in any locale. At this Italian-inspired celebration in Charleston, the couple nodded to the country where they met by using the spirit as escort cards.

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Gift a Local Favorite

Lemoncello bottle escort cards — Photo by Bottega 53 Studio; Event Planning & Design by Eva Clark Events

If small servings don't quite do it for you, why not go all out with full-size portions? “Playing off of Italy’s famed fruit, we incorporated lemons into the cocktails as well as the escort display, which contained bottles of limoncello and fresh lemons," recalls a bride of her vibrant Tuscan wedding. "The chic bottles acted as both a guest favor and an escort card."

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Decorate Tiny Bottles of Tequila

Mini Patron tequila bottle escort cards with names and table numbers in black font — Photo by Amber Gress Photography

Is tequila your spirit of choice? Get the party started by creating a display table full of miniature bottles of Patrón with escort cards around them.

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Create Cocktails in Fresh Coconuts

White shelving with monogrammed coconut escort cards with orange slices and straws framed with pink and white florals — Photo by Bruno Rezza

Fresh coconuts with natural coconut water or filled with a boozy cocktail make for festive escort cards at a tropical destination celebration. Tie the table marker to the straw and have the coconuts branded with your monogram for an extra design touch.

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Arrange a Champagne Wall

Boxwood wedding champagne wall with wooden shelves and floral accents — Photo by Katherine Marchand Weddings

Champagne is the perfect celebratory sip, so it makes sense to include the drink in your escort card display. We love how this boxwood greenery wall served as a charming natural backdrop to the glassware at this couple's Idaho celebration.

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Give Everyone Bottles of Bubbly

Champagne bottle escort card wall on geometric gold shelf with greenery and pink and white floral accents — Photo by Jessa Schifilliti

You could also gift your guests mini bottles of Champagne so they can enjoy them later in the night. At this garden Newport wedding, the couple had each escort card customized with a label that said "Pop Botellos." Samantha shares, "Kenny’s last name, ‘Botello,’ sounds similar to the Spanish word, ‘botella,’ which means ‘bottle.’ Since we are champagne enthusiasts and both our families speak Spanish, we loved using these play-on words to personalize some elements of our wedding.”

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Keep It Cheeky

Wedding champagne wall as a welcome sign with a hedge of dried palm leaves, grasses, and roses — Photo by MemoryBox Photography

Have some fun with your escort card display and have a cheeky, welcoming phrase written on the wall. It will invite guests to grab a drink and enjoy as the festivities begin.

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Prepare for a Toast

Champagne flutes with acrylic escort cards on a table — Photo by Christina McNeill

If you want to have a Champagne toast once guests enter the reception, set a table with flutes containing a perfect pour and a simple acrylic stirrer inscribed with everyone's seat details. It was a fun and efficient escort card idea at this charming destination wedding in Positano.

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Frame With Florals

Champagne escort cards on gold shelves filled with peach, blue, and green florals in front of a greenery wall — Photo by Stephanie Sunderland

Hosting a garden wedding? You definitely should incorporate florals into your display. A greenery wall backdrop and two shelves full of on-palette blooms created a pretty picture around champagne glass escort cards at a Hamptons wedding.

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Go for Gold

Champagne seating chart with coupe glasses on two gold shelves with gold seating chart in the middle — Photo by Brooke Miller Photography

Champagne is a great escort card option if you have a golden wedding color palette. Need some inspiration? Take a peek at this beautifully gilded seating chart, which was framed by coupe glasses full of bubbly at a modern Joshua Tree celebration.

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Arrange a Shelf Display

Champagne glass escort cards on a wood trellis adorned with greenery and white florals — Photo by Gretchen Gause

Consider this the rustic intermediary between a glamorous wall of bubbly and a simple Champagne-glass table display. These fizzy escort cards were positioned atop a trellis-like shelving unit and accented with sweet blooms for a summer wedding in California.

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Display Signature Sips

White wedding sign on easel and shelves filled with margaritas with green palm leaf escort cards on straws — Photo by Rever Weddings

If you're creating a signature cocktail for your day, consider making them your escort cards, too. Print each guest's name and table number on fun piece of paper that you can attach to a straw. Once your bartender whips up a batch of drinks, plop a sign in each glass and place them on a shelf for guests to find. It was the perfect idea at this warehouse wedding in Atlanta. "We pride ourselves on being connoisseurs of a good margarita, so we went with margaritas for our escort cards display and as one of our signature cocktails," shares the bride.

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Go for Goblets

Escort card display of glasses — Photo by Plum & Oak Photography; Event Planning by Fawn Events

If you don't want to assume anyone's drink preference, this is the way to go. The mid-century modern wedding in Pasadena featured escort cards that were outfitted from an eclectic arrangement of goblets. Guests found their glasses by the stirrers and had their cups filled with their drink of choice at the bar.

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Serve Margarita Shots

Margaritas in shot glasses with lime escort cards attached to each — Photo by Natalie Bray Photography

Want to give your guests a small sip to start the party? Have an escort card wall full of cocktail shots. At this Santa Barbara wedding, guests enjoyed mini margaritas before heading into the reception.

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Bottle It Up

Wood escort card wall with bottled margaritas with orange labels that is framed with green and white florals — Photo by Jordan Voth

Take a cue from this outdoor Oregon wedding and bottle up your cocktail escort cards for all your guests. “We had custom bottled margaritas—our favorite cocktail—made by Public Provisions for our escort board,” the bride says. “Keeping with the ‘glamping’ theme, we thought having them put in soda bottles perfectly fit with our upscale but approachable vibe. Guests could pop open a bottle and enjoy it then, or they could choose to take it home and enjoy it later.”

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Create a Rosé All Day Installation

Wedding escort card shelves with sparkling rosé and gold cards, pink and blue potted floral arrangements, and a peach arch sign that says "Your Seat Awaits, Darling" — Photo by Kape Photography

If your wedding has a pink color palette, you should consider rosé as an option for your escort card wall drinks. At influencer Mandy Ansari's Cabo celebration, she filled shelves full of pink bubbly with all her guests' table details. A charming sign and floral arrangements made the design complete.

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