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whitneyf1whitneyf1
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For my wedding, guests have to choose their meal on their response card.

My question is, how do they know at the reception who gets what? At my FI's sister's wedding in Mexico, we had to put a sticker on our place card. I really do not want to do that - our place cards will be kraft paper tags, hand-calligraphied, and attached to our favors. I'd really rather not have guests put a sticker on them.

Anyone know how this is done? I'm getting married at The Barns at Wesleyan Hills if that helps!
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  • missmckenzie2missmckenzie2
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    At my venue I have to provide a complete list by table to who is eating what and their names. Maybe you could do that instead?
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  • c_meahanc_meahan
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    I've seen pople put a little stone on the escort card and the meals were different color stones (glued on), so they knew which stone went with what meal and it didn't look really tacky, it looked like it was meant to be on the card.
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  • skarupakskarupak
    Fifth Anniversary 100 Comments Combo Breaker
    I've never heard of the guest putting the sticker on the back. We hand-wrote the meal on the inside of our escort cards. For couples who shared an escort card we wrote both of their meals. You could put a sticker on yourselves, or a dot in a certain color marker.Or change the color of your tags so that they still incorporate your wedding colors but also correspond to a certain meal.
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  • Jaridds68Jaridds68
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    Talk to your venue - our venue (New Haven Lawn Club) requires we tell them via something on guest's escort cards what their meal choice is. I also don't really want to use bright sticker labels, so I was thinking of stamping the back of the escort cards with a design of some sort. 
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  • amymaysaamymaysa
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    What about stamping something like this on the back of the card?
    http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/item/Menu-Set-Rubber-Stamp/2901.010/871306.html
    I wanted to get these, but we don't need to indictae it on the cards.
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  • Jaridds68Jaridds68
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_connecticut_menu-question?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:65Discussion:82bb8fb2-e42a-4c13-a5e5-c35e45fb39b2Post:29f05b9b-f8a9-4fe6-8ffb-31698bbff585">Re: Menu Question</a>:
    [QUOTE]What about stamping something like this on the back of the card? <a href="http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/item/Menu-Set-Rubber-Stamp/2901.010/871306.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/item/Menu-Set-Rubber-Stamp/2901.010/871306.html</a> I wanted to get these, but we don't need to indictae it on the cards.
    Posted by amymaysa[/QUOTE]

    <div>I love those!!!</div>
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  • msmelissggmsmelissgg
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    We also have to submit a detailed seating plan of who gets what at each table.  I went to a wedding once where they had laminated cards at a table, which in my opinion, was a little bit out there.  How about differentiating your escort cards some way?  We are doing little escort cards with anchor cut outs on them, and I was thinking of doing blue/yellow/or gold anchors depending on what each person is getting (steak/chicken/veggie).
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  • whitneyf1whitneyf1
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    Thanks for all the suggestions! Our escort cards are going to be pretty plain so I don't know if we can differentiate them at all. They are going to be very similar to the picture - just in white writing with a table #.



    If I have to mark it on the card, I'll probably use those stamps on the back! They are cute!!
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  • LandB2012LandB2012 member
    Third Anniversary 100 Comments
    I just asked my venue this week and they said not to worry about it.  People usually remember what they ordered but if a few people end up changing - they make extras to allow for this anyways.  So we don't have to write down what each person ordered, just an estimate of how many of each.  You shoudl check to see if this would work with your venue.
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  • cdbishopcdbishop member
    Sixth Anniversary 500 Comments
    I am getting married at the Barns as well this April.  When I spoke with Traci, she said that all you need is to fill out the list of individuals at the tables and what they are getting.  They will determine the rest.  If you haven't had your detail meeting with her yet, you will discuss it there.  


    Go to this website and click on the Guest List Spreadsheet under the barns and that is what you can fill out to give to them. 

    Or if you prefer i have been to a wedding where on the back of the place card the bride just wrote C, B, F, V for chicken, beed, fish, vegetarian.  
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  • whitneyf1whitneyf1
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    Thanks Carrie! I am going for my details wedding on Saturday. I noticed that you put the vegetarian option as well on your RSVP card. Is that what they told you to do? I wasn't sure if I should put it on or just leave it off and have people ask when they get there.
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  • Jaridds68Jaridds68
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    You could also choose different colored ribbon to attach the cards (going off of your pic), which could denote the meal choice. You could also choose different colored papers, make circles, and put the favors (cups?) on them (like decorative coasters). Using colors withing your wedding colors will make it look coherent, but will still let the staff know the meal info.
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  • Carebear62584Carebear62584 member
    1000 Comments Third Anniversary

    Our venue also required us to color code meal choices as well as provide them with a master list by table and alphabetical.  Since we are doing a candy buffet and guests will get a jar to fill we are coating the bottom of the jar with the appropriate colored rock candy.  I made sure to check this first.  Also, I did like the other suggestion about using the appropriate colored ribbon.

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  • cdbishopcdbishop member
    Sixth Anniversary 500 Comments
    Whitny - We don't have many people who are vegetarian.  So when we picked our meals, they said we could pick three other entrees and the vegetarian dish would be chef's choice.  They didn't say it was necessary to figure out how many vegetarian as we aren't expecting many, but I wanted to put the option for people so they don't see the three options and feel like there is nothing for them.  
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  • calindicalindi member
    5000 Comments Second Anniversary Combo Breaker
    What about using a different colored string to attach the card, the color indicating the meal choice?

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