"Wishing you a lifetime of love and happiness." As the wedding presider seal the marriage of the loving couple with this statement, the place is filled with loud applause and cheers of the spectators. How wonderful it is to experience it on your wedding day, and it would also be more enjoyable if the after-party is as successful as the wedding ceremony—especially with the wedding food. Well, ace your wedding celebration by creating a scrumptious wedding menu with our Wedding Menu in Word. This template has original suggestive content that is guaranteed to be 100% customizable and easily editable for your convenience. Also, it is printable in (US) 8.5x11 inches + Bleed. Download now and ring that wedding bells!
How to Create a Wedding Menu in Microsoft Word
According to statistics, the minimum amount that the couple spends on food on their wedding day is $10,000. Whether you decide to go big with an elegant dinner buffet or family-style feast, that is a big number, so it must be spent wisely. So, if you wanted to be hands-on with your wedding and wanted to personally manage the dishes that you will serve at your wedding, make your wedding menus now. Let us help you with these helpful wedding menu ideas that you can follow to have a DIY menu:
1. Decide on the Serving Style
The first thing that you need to consider in making your simple menu is how you would want it to be served—plated meals, family-style, buffet, and more. But, after considering this, you need to bear in mind as to what would work to the motif and event place. But most importantly, you would need to work on your budget. For example, if you are planning to have a modern and gold motif in a fancy event place, plated meals would be the appropriate option.
2. Include Seasonal Options
Your wedding is the most beautiful time of your year, but you can enhance it more through if you would include seasonal options on your menu. You can survey for local selections on the said season and include it in your menu. But, be picky in those selections. It must be fitting for your theme. For example, if you are going to hold your wedding in winter, you can include hot chocolate, apple cider, eggnog, and more on your cocktail menu.
3. Make it Personal
Putting a little personal touch on your food menu is not a bad idea, especially if it is your wedding. Include some of your favorite and significant dishes that you wanted your audience to taste. For example, if you met your soon-to-be husband or wife in an Italian restaurant, maybe you can include Italian dishes like pasta, bruschetta, chicken dish, and berry tarts. In that way, your invitees can partake the sentiments of you and your partner's first date.
4. Consider Nutritional Selections
Considering that you are inviting a variety of guests for your wedding, you need to consider adding some nutritional selections for those with food issues. Include dishes for vegetarians, lactose intolerants, people allergic to peanuts, seafood, and soy, and calorie-conscious people. For example, if you are making a wedding menu for buffet, have two varieties of steak—meat and meat substitutes. Also, you can make an alternative seafood menu for people wanted seafood.
5. Come Up with Delicious Design
While you wanted to feed the tummies of your guests, you might as well feed their eyes. Having a presentable and creative menu would boost the appetite of your invitees, making the matrimony more enjoyable and remarkable. Include high-resolution images of delicious dishes that you wanted to serve. Also, play with your color motif and significant wedding symbols. Afterward, incorporate them into your wedding menu cards.
