So, my problem is similar to bridetobe's post last week.
I mentioned before in my escort card post, we need to know exactly who is ordering what dish so that we can personalize escort cards with different colored ribbons so our servers know which meal a particular guest ordered.
We finished writing our invitation wording, reception card wording, and other inserts to send to our designer, but my fiance and I are SO STUCK on figuring out how to do the meal choices on the RSVP card.
Here is the issue:
Most RSVP cards we have seen with a meal choice just leave lines for checkmarks. We need to know exactly who is ordering which meal.
I suggested that we just have guests write their initials next to the meal they are choosing. Well, we both have lots of families that are big with lots of cousins - and many of them have the same initials! (Example - fiance has three cousins from the same family whose initials are ND)
Fiance suggested adding 5 lines or something to the RSVP card and asking guests to write their full name and meal choice on the line. This is a horrible idea, I think, because a couple who was invited, but their kids are not invited, might get the wrong impression from the number of lines being provided and try to write in their children's names! Also, we have a few HUGE families we are inviting (one set of cousins are a family of 7 and they are all coming) so how in the world would we fit all of their names on a card?
As you can see, I am kind of freaking out and don't know how to do this.
FYI: We will have three main meal choices (chicken, salmon, and vegetarian), plus 2 kids meals (chicken or vegetarian [fiance's family has a handful of vegetarian kids]).
You geniuses came up with the ribbon idea for identifying meal choices on our place cards (which my caterer, my fiance, and my mom all LOVE by the way!) so I am hoping there is an easy solution to this that my mind just isn't thinking of!
Thanks in advance ladies
