Stand-Up Bencher, Beige and Ivory Illustrated Cover #377, Meshulev

Beige and ivory with light illustration on the cover, folded to stand upright at the setting — #377 is the softest looking of the stand-up benchers. The two tones sit close enough together that the effect is texture rather than contrast, and the illustration is drawn small so it does not turn the cover into a picture. Against cream linens it reads as part of the table setting.

The printing is nusach meshulev, which is the practical part: both nuschaos are covered in the one booklet, so you order a single quantity for the whole room and every guest finds his own way of benching. For a chasunah where the two sides daven differently, that removes a decision most people would rather not have to make.

Between the neutral coloring and the meshulev printing, this is the stand-up to order when you are buying for a hall and do not yet know the linens or the guest list in detail. It is difficult for this one to be wrong.

• Malchut design #377
• Nisuch: Meshulev

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