Our simple menus...Navy & Pink, but any color will work

posted 12 months ago in Menus

These menus were actually pretty easy to make. I'll post the breakdown below.

Our simple menus...Navy & Pink, but any color will work : wedding Misc 2011 005

So I started with a navy blue linen 80lb cardstock, purchased from Paperandmore.com. I trimmed the paper to 3 1/2" x 6 3/4" and was able to get 3 per 8x10 sheet.

Then I designed the menu on 3" x 6 1/4" paper and managed to get 3 per 8x10 sheet as well. This was printed on 100lb (or maybe it was 110lb) shimmer opal cardstock from Envelopemall.com. In case you're wondering, I printed these on my work's heavy duty printer. Only an awesome and expensive printer or Kinko's type place will be able to handle this paper. I trimmed all the pieces to size. Each menu template I designed with a faint gray line around as my "cutting" lines to make cutting easier and without measurement.

Then I took 3/8" ribbon and glued it around the backside of the navy paper, leaving the "rough" edges to be underneath the menu paper. The I glued the menu to the navy paper overtop of the ribbon. I used Elmer's glue sticks for the ribbon and gluing the menus to the navy paper. I found them to be not only the cheapest option, but the best in terms of actually sticking.

Fonts used: The "fancy" font for the titles is Sloop Font, downloaded for free from dafont.com. The font for the descriptions is Monotype Corsiva, which is a standard font in Microsoft Office. These were also used on my invites.

For the monogram, I found instructions on how to create a monogram by Googling someting like DIY monogram. Here is where you can really personalize the menu. My theme was more traditional romance but I know a lot of people like a more modern look. If you want to replicate my monogram, follow this link for the basic instructions.

TEMPLATE: If you would like to download my template for this menu, follow this link. Thanks and enjoy!

posted by irin997 12 months ago

Oooh, these are my colors! Thanks for the inspiration, I'll bookmark this.

posted by Elle_Neotoma 12 months ago

It looks great! What fonts did you use?

posted by amyanne02 12 months ago

these are my colors too! love this menu!

posted by futuremrsloveday 12 months ago

Wow!!!!...These are beautiful! Do you mind sharing your menu template. I would really love it! My email is: latoya.k.thomas@hotmail.com

posted by lkt70893 12 months ago

Beautiful Job I love them! My wedding is on August 20th and I was hoping you could PM your menu template as well. Thanks

posted by JazzBridetobe 11 months ago