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With a Jamaican wedding, a Jamaican menu is a must! Our all-out Jamaican feast will be happening on Friday night (I’ll write about that soon!), and the menu for the reception will focus on tropical flavors as well as personal favorites of ours. While we didn’t have a specific tasting during our “research” trip in October, the food we did eat while there was delish. No tasting = no pretty food pictures, so I’ll give you our DIY menu tutorial instead!
First, design and print your image on your paper of choice. We used white linen paper, as we did with our invitations.
Again, like our invitations, we used the same header, but swapped the colors, since we are backing these with bright pink cardstock.
Next, trim the menus down to size. We printed them so we could get 2 per page.
After the menus are cut to size, it’s time to choppity chop the backing cardstock. I measured it out so there is a 1/4″ trim of pink on all four sides.
And finally, run a line of adhesive along all four sides of the white cardstock (the back side, of course) and stick it on the pink cardstock. We just eyeballed them, and they turned out great (although I did have to raise my eyebrows a couple of times at Mr. Q and his centering techniques. No worries though, we just pulled them apart and re-stuck ’em!)! I had a great photo-op of Mr. Quiche on the menu assembly line, but he wouldn’t let me take it because he “didn’t like what he was wearing”. Men.
Tropical, preppy, EASY menu!
As you can probably read in the pictures, here is our reception menu:
Salad
Prosciutto & Melon
Entree
Sugar Cane Skewered Chicken Breast
with Coconut Glaze
and
Grilled Tilapia with Mushrooms, Spinach
and Carrots in a Chardonnay Sauce
Dessert
Vanilla Sponge Cake with Raspberry Filling
Choosing the menu was quite simple, as was constructing them. I bought 50 sheets of 100# pink cardstock (on sale!) for $8.99. The white linen paper is leftover from our invitations, so the cost has already been absorbed there. The biggest splurge (if you can even call it that!) was on the Duck brand roller adhesive. We bought them at varying places, paying $7 for one, $5 for another, and $3.50 for the final one. $24.49 for 40 menus = 61 cents each. Not bad!
Does your menu feature local flavors?
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OMG, one of my favorite things while in Jamaica for spring break was their jerk chicken and amazing fresh bread!! I didn’t get to try any of the items on your menu, but they all sound delicious! 
Your menus are really beautiful and inspiring - I don’t know why I’m so scared of anything DIY! 
so lovely!! did you print them on an inkjet or did you have them printed?
Miss Quiche,
How are you printing your invitations and menu cards? Did you design them and print them on a regular printer? I’m new to the DIY scene and am interested in printing my designs as well but am clueless! What kind of printer did you use?
So tropical! I can’t wait for summer produce to be available so I can get cookin’!
I love these!!! And thanks for the tutorial, I will be starting ours soon. I tried to work with some super crafty bees with a gocco machine print them for us, but Mr. Taffy shot it down. After seeing your tutorial, I am inspired to get started!
@LisaBee: @Caroline: I actually just printed them out at work! We have a great color laser printer/copier, and I just fed the cardstock through the bypass tray. It was SUPER easy. A regular, color desktop printer should yield the same results!
@Miss Taffy: Taff, these were so easy. Granted, we only had 40 of them, but I’d say it took us about an hour or 2 to do them.
Your menus are fabulous! I’m intimidated by DIY projects these days, but these definitely seem do-able! Awesome job!
I love these! The navy/pink color scheme is so great!
I am jealous. We were going to get married in Jamaica–my fiance was born there and has lots of family there–but for a variety of reasons (primarily my mom crying a lot and telling me I didn’t care about my family and that no one would come, which isn’t true) we’re getting married here.
So…I will live vicariously through you! The menus look gorgeous!
I love them! They are totally preppy! They’re clean and neat with a bit of whimsey (the color and the design)!! YAY for you that it was simple to get together!!!
They’re beautiful and your menu sounds delicious and a perfect nod to your location!!
Wow, they look great! I’m not usually a big fan of pink, but I love the way it looks as your background- just the right amount of color. And your menu looks delicious!
Pretty menus! I love the colors and design of your paper products, so perfect for a classy destination wedding! I gave up on trying to make our own menus when I got sick before the wedding. Definitely one of those projects that I had to let go.
Your menu is perfect for an island weddign and the menus are so cute!
These menus are so cute!! Did you know we have very very similar colors? I love how the colors just pop. Also I’m using Feel Script! I think that is what that font is…
And I haven’t picked our menu yet, but yours sounds delish!
That pink really makes it pop. What a cool idea for the menus!
yum, yum, yum!
can i come??
haha…
those turned out fantastic though and your food sounds delish!
They look great! How do you like your paper cutter? I’m looking for one, and yours looks amazing.
Wow, those turned out really cute! and YUM, does that look tasty!
Thanks everyone!
@marquettemonv15: It’s *possible* that I borrowed it from my office, but I can neither confirm nor deny this 
It works great!
thanks Miss Quiche! I would have done the same thing if I were if the same position you may or may not be in…hehe
thanks Miss Quiche! I would have done the same thing if I were in the same position you may or may not be…hehe
Hi, Just wondering where you got the little bubble surrounding the word “Menu”. I am trying to do something similar using Microsoft Word and I can’t find any cool free clip art!
Hi,
Just a question about the menu…you have entree and then desert… is there no main meal??
@Jessica: The entree is the main meal, and from there we move on to cake!
@Katie: If you contact the etsy person that I linked to, I am SURE she would point you in the right direction!
Cute idea. I have been going back and forth between printing and putting them together myself or having my printer who I am having print my invitation suite do them.
I wanted to do local flavors (pan seared Colorado trout!) but at our tasting it was SO bony!! I nearly choked twice, and I thought I had deboned that thing!! So now…more of a general pork and beef menu. Boo.
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Mrs. Quiche, Chicago/Montego Bay
Age and Occupation: 28, Interior Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 42, Telecom Guru
Engagement Date: July 2, 2008
Wedding Date: May, 2009
Venue: Coyaba Resort, Montego Bay
About Me: I love Chicago and can’t imagine living anywhere else (Well, except Paris. Or anywhere in France, for that matter!). I’m a full-time worker, part-time student, soon-to-be-step-mom, indie music lovin’, architecture and design fanatic, macaroni and cheese addict, vegetarian, Francophile, Ohio State football obsessed, wedding planning girl. Mr. Quiche and I are “Partners-in-Crime” and cannot wait to celebrate our marriage surrounded by our family and closest friends. I plan on DIYing my little heart out (or as much as a suitcase to Jamaica will hold).
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