At the wedding reception, its nice to provide the wedding guests with a wedding card menu. There is the formal menu, buffet menu, and comfort food menu. The formal menu consist of information for a four course menu featuring the highlights of the meal, such as, beverages, passed appetizers, first course, salad course, entree, and dessert. The buffet menu and comfort menus consist of beverages, passed appetizers, salad course, entree, and dessert. Couples just have to choose which wedding menu suits their wedding style.
There are many ways couples can design their wedding menu. Couples can either purchase wedding menus at the same time they are ordering their wedding invitations or couples can make the wedding menu themselves if they are computer savvy by using Wedding DNA, Word, In Design CS4, or Photoshop. If couples are into rubber stamping or crafting, there are several places like AC Moore or Michaels that have the necessary tools to create the wedding menu.
When creating your menu, be sure you create a few different designs that family and friends can provide feedback on. Once the design has been selected for the wedding card menu, it is important to provide the text information such as the last name, the date, the wedding menu, and it is completed.
Once the design is set, then a couple needs to consider the wedding theme and table décor when placing their wedding menu on the table. If a themed wedding is being use then try to decorate your table with the colors or wedding theme. For example, a beach themed wedding table would be set with calming colors of blue with seashells and coral. The wedding theme could then be incorporated into a wedding menu with beautiful fonts and colorful images of the ocean, seashells, and coral.
After the design and the wedding menu is created additional uses for opposite side of the wedding menu would include the description of this wedding favor (frame with menu), table numbers for wedding guests, or couples story on how they met. Couples could print this creation and insert it in a double-sided frame on a thicker card stock type of paper, so images do not bleed through on each side. The ideas are endless with personalizing the wedding menu and creativity is the key when it comes to matching the wedding menu with the wedding theme.
Listed below are places I found some creative wedding menu templates for free and to purchase:
•Wedding DNA
•Martha Stewart Weddings
•Microsoft Wedding Templates
•Think Wedding
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