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what a cute idea!

This is lovely. I'm doing this at my next shindig.

love this!

Germophobes are gonna hate this. I can't explain why, but it just set off my ick alarm. Something about paper being handled by people and then people putting their fingers all over the tines of the fork.... look, I know it's not rational, and it truly is a visually cute idea, but it just gave me the icks.

that's not germophobia, it's scientific reality. It's not fair to put something in someone else's clean fork.

Germophobia:

Oh Brother...

"It's not fair to put something in someone else's clean fork."

If you're dining at someone else's home, how do you know if the fork (or plates...or glasses..) are clean? How could you be sure that everyone else meets your standards for cleanliness?

Restaurants have sanitation standards to meet but private homes don't. I guess germaphobes have a tough time accepting dinner party invitations. Maybe they are happier hosting?

Please help me out here if I'm just uncultured, but how often do you plan things or attend things where the host decides exactly which chair you're supposed to sit at? Most weddings I've attended seat you at particular tables, but everyone sort of handles exactly which chair is theirs when they get to it. In special honorary seats, like a mother of the bride or such, tent cards work. Also, anyplace that's going to handle affairs and stuff can provide holders, can't they? Unless they're not equipped for big parties, and some places aren't considered "normal" venues for such a thing, in which case, they are probably too casual to be telling people exactly where to sit. Like I said, though, this just isn't the norm for me and my peeps - placecards are way formal even if you do them for a casual event in a casual form.

I really don't want a card on my fork unless it's made of food, which is another way to go.

I think this is a really cute idea.

Another one I liked was the one where they used gold pen to put names on pomegranates. But a pomegranate is more expensive than most card holders.

There is something so refreshing in this simplicity.

at my mother-in-laws holiday get-togethers, place cards are folded pieces of cardstock decorated by the grandkids with everyones name. And she re-uses the same ones year after year. When those kids are teenagers, their childhood artwork will still be the placecard....
... perhaps I should suggest she have them laminated...