Coming soon · now taking custom orders
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.
Reviewed by a human
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.
A human verifies everything
We confirm your files, materials and finishes will print before you ever pay.
Access to exotic materials
Papers, foils and techniques most printers can't or won't offer.
A free proof, every time
Approve exactly what you'll get — nothing goes to press until it's right.
Custom place cards FAQ
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Common questions
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.