Menu Template

A menu on the table is read by everyone at it, twice, and it is the one piece of event paper that is almost always made at the last minute in a word processor. This one is set the way a good restaurant sets its menu: the dish in a serif with room around it, the course name in small caps above where a course begins, a note at the right for the vegetarian or the gluten-free, and nothing else. It is for the wedding dinner, the rehearsal, the anniversary, the supper club, the pop-up.

The page reads top to bottom. A title, Dinner or Supper or the couple's names, a subtitle for the occasion or the date, a short rule, then the courses, centered as one block, so eight lines and twelve lines both sit well on the page. A footline at the foot for the allergies line or a thank-you.

The courses are a list. Each line has a course name, which you leave blank on the second dish of a course so the name appears once, the dish itself, and a short note. Up to twelve lines; a longer menu is a longer dinner than most. Every line has a limit and the customizer holds you to it, so a dish name never runs into the border.

Six color themes, matched to the wedding invitation and the RSVP card in this drawer, so the suite reads as one. The gilt is the default; the light-ink theme is for the proof, or for the menu that goes on every table and is printed forty times.

Print at 100%, not fit to page, on the cardstock the invitation was printed on, or on a good heavy paper: 65 lb cover is enough for a menu that stands in a holder. The free version is this design with the sample dinner, in the Gilt theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot. The paid version carries your title, your courses and your footline, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.