One of the things we didn't want to spend a lot of money on were wedding menus. We didn't want to go to a wedding printing company and spend money on something that we knew people would only glance over briefly and throw away. Also, it wasn't practical to print a menu for every single person.
So what we did was we got creative and went to Jo-Anne's fabric and craft store and chose stock paper that matched our wedding colors which were gray, soft purple, and blush. I kind of played around and got different textures and colors of paper and made mock menus. Let me tell you- I am so not a crafty person but this was the quickest, easiest, most simple method for making menus. When my fiance took one look at them and was impressed, I knew we had a winner. We also saved money by opting to have two menus at each table instead of having one for each and every guest.
The only materials we used were:
Stock paper
Non-toxic glue sticks
Pencil
Paper cutter
Regular 8 1/2 x 11 paper
Home printer
Step 1: Chose paper stock that matched our wedding colors:
Step 2: Printed our menus on regular 81/2 x 11 paper on a home printer. To save paper we made two columns and cut the printed menus and eye-balled it to the size we wanted.
Step 3: Cut a section of another type of stock paper to make the menu header.
Step 4: Cut the stock paper so that its border around the printed menu is about 1" to 1.5" wide. Next I glued the headers and printed menu on the stock paper in no particular order.
End result
Total cost: $100 for stock paper including the paper cutter. The stock paper we chose was $1.99 each but Jo-Anne's had a variety.
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