Making Menus

This past weekend, I checked another project off our massive wedding to-do list.  Menus!

Early in the process, J. and I decided to make our own menus even though our venue provides them at no charge.  We thought it would be an easy place to add some personalization to our wedding, and gave us a really fun opportunity to add some humor into our otherwise formal event.  To do so, we “borrowed” an idea from a friend and decided to go with double sided menus.  On one side of the menu, we have a serious description, so that the guests will know what to expect.  On the other side, we thought up a number of silly descriptions to (we hope) make them laugh!

Will everyone at our wedding think this is awesome as we do?  Probably not.  But its never stopped us me before!

Our menus were designed by Sara Guze Brown of Belletristics, and she custom-made them to coordinate with our address labels.

Sneak peek of our address labels in action…

One side of the menu will be green and gold, and on the other side we reversed the colors.  To print them, I purchased standard 8.5″ by 11″ card stock, and had staples custom cut it in half, lengthwise, for $2.  We used our home printer, so I only spent about $30, including the fee for the design itself, to make 170 of these- and they turned out great!

For more information about the menus, visit Belletristics’ blog!

Of course, it took a village to come up with the humorous menu descriptions (special thanks to H., G., D., B. and R. for your hilarious help), and we sure had fun doing it!  I’m not going to tell you what our final decisions were, but here are some of the ones we didn’t choose.  They were so funny we had to share them with you!

Butternut Squash Ravioli:  The only ravioli capable of resolving the healthcare debate raging throughout this country.

Mixed Baby Green Lettuces:  It was just too much trouble to sort out the different lettuces.

French Breast of Chicken: This chicken spent its days people watching at cafes and subsisted on a diet of wine, cigarettes and baguettes.

Fire Grilled NY Strip Steak:  We 100% guarantee it wasn’t made on a Forman Grill.  *wink*

Filet of Salmon: The omega-3’s will not prevent your inevitable hangover.

Eggplant Rollantini: Feel free to judge the vegetarians who order this; they’re already judging you.

Trio of Desserts:  There were going to be four but we ran out of money.

Would you consider using funny menu descriptions for your wedding?