Wedding Place Cards Template

How the Template Works — Names From Your Project, Format Your Choice

The template is a generated view of your project. You don’t fill in names; the project fills them in. You pick the format, the size and the typography, and the export does the rest.

• Open the place cards view in your seating chart project — every confirmed guest appears as a card.
• Pick the format — tent-fold, flat, or an Avery sheet layout.
• Pick the size — 3.5×2 (most common), 2.5×3.5, or 4×3 oversized.
• Customize typography — font, color, optional title (Mr./Mrs./Dr.), optional decorative element.
• Preview a sample card at full size to confirm spelling.
• Download the print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks already applied for any printer.

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Place Card Sizes and Formats

Place cards are smaller than menu cards or table numbers, but the format you pick changes how they sit on the table and what kind of holder (if any) you need.

• 3.5×2 inches (folded tent) — the most popular wedding place card size. Folds in half to stand on its own with no holder. Fits comfortably on a plate or in a folded napkin.
• 2.5×3.5 inches (flat business-card) — smaller, lighter, more minimalist. Needs a small holder, a clip, or to be tucked into the napkin to display upright.
• 4×3 inches (oversized tent) — larger card with extra space for a longer name, a decorative motif, or a small meal-choice icon. Best for formal weddings where the card is part of the place setting’s visual statement.
• Avery sheet layouts — 8 cards per US Letter sheet on Avery 5302 (3.5×2 tent) or 10 per sheet on Avery 5305 (2.5×3.5 flat). Pre-perforated, no cutting required.

Avery Template Compatibility — Codes and Sheet Layouts

Avery’s perforated sheets are the fastest path from PDF to printed cards — the perforations replace cutting and the sheet feeds straight through a home printer. Our template supports the three Avery codes most weddings use.

• Avery 5302 — 8 tent-fold cards per US Letter sheet at 3.5×2 inches. The default in our tool. Perforated for clean separation; folds along a pre-scored center line.
• Avery 5305 — 10 flat business-card-sized cards per sheet at 2.5×3.5 inches. Best for minimalist designs paired with a small holder.
• Avery 8395 — name-badge style at 3.375×2.33 inches. Less common at weddings but supported for couples who already have these on hand.
• If you’d rather use plain cardstock instead of perforated sheets, the template also exports a custom-cut PDF with crop marks — feed it to a paper trimmer or a print shop’s guillotine.

Auto-Filled From Your Seating Chart

The headline feature: every name and table number on every card pulls live from your seating chart project. You don’t type guest names into the template; the template reads them from the project. Add a guest, the template adds a card. Move a guest to a different table, the table number on their card updates automatically.

Practical consequence — the late-RSVP edit takes seconds, not hours. A static Etsy template forces you to re-enter every changed name by hand and reprint the whole sheet. A live-data template regenerates only the affected cards.

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Customization — Fonts, Colors, Optional Icons

The template ships with a clean serif default, but every element is editable. Font family, font size, ink color, paper color, optional decorative element (monogram, leaf, geometric border), optional title prefix (Mr./Mrs./Dr.), and an optional meal-choice icon if you’ve collected meal selections at RSVP.

Coordinate typography with the rest of your stationery suite — pick once at the project level, and the template inherits. Update the design once and every printed piece updates with it.

Why Live-Data Templates Beat Static Ones

An Etsy or Canva place cards template is a single design you fill in by hand for every guest. A live-data template is a generated view of your guest list — the names live in your project, and the template reads them at export time.

The difference shows up in the final week before the wedding, when RSVPs are still arriving. Static templates require re-typing every change; live-data templates regenerate themselves. Free, collaborative, and synced with the rest of your stationery.