Square Bencher, Blue Paperback Two-Fold #192, 4x4

The square bencher is a 4 by 4 paperback folded once, and #192 is the blue. The square shape is what made this format move — it does not look like a booklet lying at the setting, it looks like part of how the table was designed. Paperback rather than laminated keeps it light in the hand and light in the box when you are ordering several hundred.

Blue is the workhorse color in the square line. It sits well against white and cream linens, it photographs cleanly, and it does not read as feminine or masculine, so it works equally at a bar mitzvah, a bris and a chasunah. Benching and sheva brochos are both inside; nusach is your choice at checkout, Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach.

The square benchers run in a full range of colors, so if you are ordering for two events in one season you can keep the format and change the shade. Count on guests taking them home — this is one of those items where the box always ends up emptier than the seating chart predicted.

• Malchut design #192
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach

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