Weddingbee Blog

If you’d like to help your guests with their cocktail choices, a bar menu can do just the trick. BarMenus.com has a wonderful menu generator that does all of the hard design work for you and produces a beautiful PDF copy of the artwork that you can print out yourself!

With 59 backgrounds, a wonderful selection of cocktails (you can even insert your own drinks & descriptions) and the option of adding your own logo to the bottom, this is the easiest wedding design project ever!

These are our menus for the rehearsal dinner and wedding:

- Rehearsal Dinner Menu -

Salad -
Assorted Baby Greens with Goat Cheese, Pistachios, Endive, Toasted Croutons and Steen’s Cane Syrup Balsamic Vinaigrette Emulsion

Entrees -
Cast Iron Skillet Catfish with Sauce Menuiere, Crawfish Pecan Relish and Brabant Potatoes
or
Grilled, eight ounce Filet Mignon set on Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Baby Carrots

Dessert -
The groom’s cake served with hot coffee

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Remember my idea about mini-bells for the menus? Well, they’re finally in and I love them! Look how small they are!

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Our engagement party is a week away! We’re having a buffet dinner and some delicious treats for dessert, so I decided to make menus to put on all of the tables listing what’s available for dinner.

Here’s a rough draft:

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As promised, here is what we put on the back of the menus! Sorry about blurring out the baby faces - that is something we are only sharing with the people at the wedding. It’s embarrasing enough as it is.

Also, on the bottom, where it says “Just Married,” I am going to punch tiny holes and tie a miniature wedding bell through it with a ribbon. What do you think?

For a couple months now, I’ve been gathering suggestions on what food we should serve at the wedding. And while we can’t please absolutely everybody, since everything will be delicious (when aren’t desserts delicious?) I think people *should* survive if their most favorite-ever-pastry isn’t on the 20-foot buffet.

And with no further adieu, here’s the list:

(Note: the new Justin Timberlake song is on in the background, and there’s a slight possibility I was just twirling and dancing around my apartment singing, “I’m bringing dessert back!”. Maybe.)

Foods:

• Two chocolate fountains: a 25″ of milk chocolate, and an 18″ of white chocolate
  with various foods for dipping: giant pretzels, marshmallows, angel food cake, maraschino cherries, fresh strawberries, fresh pineapple, rice krispie treat squares, and caramels. (our vendor suggested a bunch more, but we decided to keep it fairly simple since we’ll have so many other desserts)
• Mini cheesecakes
• Baklava (Greek/middle Eastern honey and walnut pastries)
• Kourambiedes (Greek wedding cookies, and my favorite dessert ever!)
• Tuxedo strawberries (making these myself!)
• Assorted chocolates
• Sugar cookies (my aunt makes the most delicious sugar cookies ever!!)
• Sugar-free brownies (for diabetics)
• Sugar-free chocolates (also for diabetics)
• Fresh fruit (I’m thinking of using watermelon bowls for this)
• M&Ms in our wedding colors
• Lemon bars
• After-dinner mints
• Mixed nuts

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I don’t know if I’m really going to call it “The Story of Us” but it seems like a good starting point. Now that my menus are done, the other side of the tented cards will be a short timeline.

We originally wanted to write a personal story about how we met, or how our relationship progressed, or something to that effect. However, as I was attempting to write our story, I discovered that I suck at writing stories. Mr. Butterfly, on the other hand, is great at them. Unfortunately, we honestly could not think of any story to tell. So we agreed on the timeline idea.

I don’t have any of the pictures yet, but this is the general idea.

{baby picture of Mr. Butterfly}
5/xx/197x
Mr. Butterfly is born

{baby picture of Ms. Butterfly}
6/xx/197x
Ms. Butterfly is born

{picture of Mr. and Ms. Butterfly together}
3/xx/2003
Mr. and Ms. Butterfly meet

{picture of my engagement ring}
2/3/2006
Mr. Butterfly proposes!! Ms. Butterfly says Yes!

{image of wedding bells or wedding rings}
11/xx/2006
Mr. and Ms. Butterfly tie the knot!

Mr. and Mrs. Butterfly’s honeymoon destination: 3 nights in Puerto Rico at the Ritz, and 4 nights in Cap Juluca in Anguilla.

I don’t know if I will have room for the honeymoon destination, but I thought it might be cute to put it in there because everyone will be asking anyway. What do you think?

Between programs, menus, personal story, and table escort cards, I found menus to be the easiest to do. Why? My venue already provided the descriptions of the food, and Adrienne from Custom Programs designed the rest!

Here is what I am serving and what my menu looks like. Imagine that it’s on one side of a tent card, where the menu itself is ecru cardstock and the backing is the same orange color that I used in my invitations.

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I usually like cocktail hour food - hors d’oeuvres, crudites and champagne! - more than the sit down dinner at a wedding. I love to try every little thing.

The wedding Mr. Bee and I attended this past weekend had a great cocktail hour. The stationery table had cheeses, crackers, spreads, olives, strawberries, and grapes wrapped in prosciutto. But the best part was the bread (lower right hand corner) with warm brie inside. Yum…

There were also butlered hot hors d’oeuvres like spanokopita and curried chicken skewers.

But the way to my heart is definitely through a raw bar - oysters, jumbo shrimp, clams saturated thoroughly with lemon juice and cocktail sauce oh my! I so wanted a raw bar with oysters, shrimp, crab legs, and sushi all on a pagoda ice sculpture at our wedding. One can dream can’t they?

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Now that the wedding is drawing nearer, I have become very conscious about the money I spend because I need to have enough left over to pay my vendors on the last week. Can you imagine if I ran out of money? Eeeek!!

Anyway, one way that I am saving money (albeit only a hundred bucks or so), is to have “shared” menus at each table. Instead of one menu per person, my menus will be in tent card form. I guess when I go to weddings, I only take the programs so I don’t think menus are as important. But that’s just me.

I will have 3 per table, which should be plenty for the people to share. However, I didn’t know what to put on the other side of the tent. I didn’t want to leave it blank, so Mr. Butterfly and I have decided to write the story of how we met, or a timeline of our relationship, or something else personal. I think that the guests will really enjoy reading about it.

When I actually write the story, I will post it - I promise!!

Oh, the last detail of my menu that I really wanted is the pictures of the cow and the fish from a previous blog. Since many of the guests are Korean and may not understand the menu, I wanted to put pictures of the animals on my menus too. Does anyone know where I can get them?