Since it's August I thought I would do a throwback to my wedding, highlighting one of everyone's favorite details, my escort cards. Having a formal beach theme, we decided we wanted to do our escort cards on sand-dollars. So my mom ordered sand-dollars and had them delivered.
I didn't want table numbers because I wanted the sand-dollars to be a keepsake, so instead I named the tables after beaches that mean something to Jason and I (mostly Fire Island, NJ, and Florida beaches, with our bridal tables named after our Hawaiian Honeymoon spots.) My mom bought about 10 calligraphy scrap book markers (writing on sand-dollars is like writing on sandpaper and wrecks the markers quickly). She wrote in calligraphy on each escort card, writing it so that the names were on the top and the table names would be buried under the sand.
I then had Jason build me boxes out of wood. We painted them white but kept them almost stripped looking, even sanding them a little after painting them, in order to keep it looking beachy. I picked up white sand at home depot and strained it into a bucket to get out the grimy sand. Then I added a full container of sparkles (Martha Stewart) into the sand. After adding the sand into the boxes, before adding the sand-dollars I sprinkled more glitter on top. I also prepared the shells, taking about half the shells and starfish and spraying them with spray glitter, leaving the rest clean and plain. (Most of the shells came from a shell store in Florida, though some did come from the beach there.)
What really made the boxes though was how we laid them out. When laying the in the boxes we left wholes between some of the sand-dollars or offset some others in order to add the shells into the box. Then I gave my wedding coordinator (through Lands End, I didn't hire a separate one) a box of shells to lay out on the table around the escort cards.
Since it's August I thought I would do a throwback to my wedding, highlighting one of everyone's favorite details, my escort cards. Having a formal beach theme, we decided we wanted to do our escort cards on sand-dollars. So my mom ordered sand-dollars and had them delivered. 
I didn't want table numbers because I wanted the sand-dollars to be a keepsake, so instead I named the tables after beaches that mean something to Jason and I (mostly Fire Island, NJ, and Florida beaches, with our bridal tables named after our Hawaiian Honeymoon spots.) My mom bought about 10 calligraphy scrap book markers (writing on sand-dollars is like writing on sandpaper and wrecks the markers quickly). She wrote in calligraphy on each escort card, writing it so that the names were on the top and the table names would be buried under the sand. 
I then had Jason build me boxes out of wood. We painted them white but kept them almost stripped looking, even sanding them a little after painting them, in order to keep it looking beachy. I picked up white sand at home depot and strained it into a bucket to get out the grimy sand. Then I added a full container of sparkles (Martha Stewart) into the sand. After adding the sand into the boxes, before adding the sand-dollars I sprinkled more glitter on top. I also prepared the shells, taking about half the shells and starfish and spraying them with spray glitter, leaving the rest clean and plain. (Most of the shells came from a shell store in Florida, though some did come from the beach there.)
What really made the boxes though was how we laid them out. When laying the in the boxes we left wholes between some of the sand-dollars or offset some others in order to add the shells into the box. Then I gave my wedding coordinator (through Lands End, I didn't hire a separate one) a box of shells to lay out on the table around the escort cards.
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