One card, one name.
Folded tents, flat cards and escort cards on heavyweight cotton — foil-stamped, letterpressed or hand-calligraphed per guest. The smallest piece of the suite, and the one every guest picks up.
From 195 USD for 50 cards
3.5x2 tent or flat, 1 foil, names variable. Free shipping in the continental US.
245 USD
100 cards · 2,45 USD each · ships in 7–12 business days
Self-serve price: you set it up, upload print-ready files and check out. Want a designer to check or rebuild your files, extra names, or a finish not listed? Get a custom quote (design prep, proofs until you're happy, a real person on it).
If you're not happy, we reprint. How our quality promise works
- Free proof. Nothing prints until you approve it.
- Want a human (or our AI art director) to check your artwork first? Ask our team or try the Studio.
Price-Lock Promise
You pay the price you see for the spec you ordered. If our artwork review finds a cheaper spec that suits your design better, we'll suggest it and refund the difference. Any upgrade is charged only if you approve it. If we can't print your artwork well on the ordered spec and you don't want to change it, you get a full refund before anything prints.
What’s possible
The smallest piece, the most handled.
Tents that stand without bowing, flat cards for a charger, escort cards for a display table — all cut from the same stock as the rest of your suite so the set holds together.
Folded tents
Scored to stand — 3.5×2 folded is the classic.
Flat place cards
For a charger, napkin or plate.
Escort cards
Table assignments on a display board.
Foil, letterpress & calligraphy
Names stamped, pressed or hand-lettered.
Why Peppermint
A human guides every custom order.
Checked by a person
We confirm files, materials and finishes before you pay.
Materials others won't
Papers, foils and techniques most printers can't offer.
A free proof, always
Nothing prints until you approve exactly what you get.
Custom place cards FAQ
Do folded place cards stand up on their own?
Only if the stock is right. Under about 24pt a tent bows forward by the second course. We score 32pt cotton across the grain so the fold is crisp and the card holds its angle all night — the grain direction matters more than the thickness here.
Can you print each guest's name?
Yes — variable digital printing for the names, with the fixed design foiled or letterpressed underneath. Send the final guest list as a clean spreadsheet; the spelling pass is the part that takes time, so we proof the full list before anything goes on press.
Should we do place cards or escort cards?
Escort cards tell a guest which table; place cards tell them which seat. A seated dinner with a fixed plan usually wants both — escort cards at the entrance, place cards on the table. If you're only doing one, do escort cards.
What's the minimum order?
Place cards run per guest, so a hundred is a normal order and we price accordingly. Order about 10% extra blanks — last-minute guest changes are the rule, not the exception, and a spare blank beats a reprint.
Can we get blank cards and calligraph the names ourselves?
That's a common approach — foil or letterpress the fixed design, leave the name area clear, and hand off blanks to your calligrapher. Ask them what stock and ink they prefer before we print; some inks bleed on soft, uncoated cotton and some nibs catch on a deeply pressed surface. Confirm the plan with us first.
How big should escort cards be?
Escort cards run smaller than place cards as a rule, since they only carry a name and a table number and sit in rows on a board. Keep them large enough to read from a step back — a guest scanning a display shouldn't have to lean in. We'll size them against your board and card count.
Can the foil match the color used on our invitations?
That's the goal — place cards should read as part of the suite, not a separate purchase. If we printed your invitations, we work from the same specs. If another shop did, send us a physical sample rather than a photo; foil reads completely differently on screen than under candlelight.
When do you need the final guest list?
Earlier than you think. Names have to be typed, formatted, proofed and approved before anything goes on press, and the spelling pass takes real time — hyphenated surnames, honorifics, accents, plus-ones added the week before. Send a clean spreadsheet as soon as your count settles, and order spare blanks for the stragglers.
Can you make table numbers and menus in the same stock?
Table cards, menus and place cards printed together on one stock keep the table consistent, and it's the easiest way to make a setting look considered. Sizes and formats vary by piece — a table number needs to stand and read across a room, a menu needs a different footprint. Tell us the full list and we'll spec it.
We rebuild supplied artwork for the press.
Our design team redraws your artwork as clean, layered, press-ready files so every plate, die and colour can be produced properly.
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View menus & programs →Place cards are the smallest piece of the suite and the one every guest actually picks up, turns over and takes home. Folded tents, flat cards for a charger, escort cards for a display board — cut from heavyweight cotton, foil-stamped, letterpressed or hand-calligraphed with a name. Get the stock and the grain right and they hold their shape all night. Get them wrong and they slump into the bread plate.
A tent bows by the second course if the stock is too light
Order folded place cards under about 24pt and they curl forward before the salad clears. We score 32pt cotton across the grain, so the fold breaks clean and the card keeps its angle through dessert.
Grain direction matters more here than raw thickness. Fold with the grain and the fibers tear ragged along the crease; fold across it and you get a crisp spine that carries the weight of the front panel. 3.5×2 folded is the classic size — small enough to sit beside a charger without crowding the setting, tall enough to read from a seat away.
Same stock as the invitation, or the set stops looking like a set
Place cards get cut from the same heavyweight cotton as the rest of your suite. Same color, same surface, same weight in the hand — so the card on the plate reads as a sibling of the envelope that arrived in February, not a last-minute add-on from a different shop.
Three formats do three jobs. Folded tents stand on the table. Flat cards lie on a charger, a napkin or a plate. Escort cards pin or prop on a display board at the entrance and tell a guest which table to find.
The fixed design goes on press, the names go on digitally
We foil-stamp or letterpress the fixed part of the design — a monogram, a rule, a border — then run each guest's name with variable digital printing. Or hand-calligraph the names on blank stock, if you want ink laid down by a person.
The landmine is spelling. Send the guest list as a clean spreadsheet, one name per row, formatted the way you want it printed. We proof the full list before anything goes on press, because the spelling pass is the slow part, not the printing. Order about 10% extra blanks — guest changes are the rule.
Escort cards at the entrance, place cards at the seat
Escort cards tell a guest which table. Place cards tell them which seat. A seated dinner with a fixed plan usually wants both — escort cards on a display board by the door, place cards waiting on the charger. If budget or time means one only, do escort cards. Guests can sort out chairs themselves; they can't guess a table.