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We’ve got all the wedding menu ideas and advice you need, with everything from example menus, to how to deal with special needs eaters like vegans or gluten free or paleo folks, plus printable wedding menu templates!

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Make menus that look like vinyl records complete with meal “tracks”

Tribesmaid Kimberhill had a brilliant idea for music-themed wedding menus — from the design to the wording.

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Save money on catering: ask about kid food!

Here’s the deal: you’re having your wedding catered. Your guestlist is starting to look big, and it’s filled with children! You need to save money, but you have all these adorable kids to feed, and only so much cash on hand to spend on kale caeser salads and wild salmon.

Well, here’s your solution, courtesy of an Offbeat Bride named Tammara…

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DIY forkin’ menu holders for your foodie wedding

Attention foodies: We have found your menu holders. These stinkin’ cute fork-people from Polish the Stars hold more than recipe cards. Your painstakingly delicious menus can be cradled in their forkin’ little hands!

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Simple afternoon tea wedding menu

Now that we’re back to catering our own wedding (with major help from the wedding party), I whipped up a concrete version of the simple afternoon tea wedding menu that’s been running around in my head. I’m aiming to keep this very very simple to spare us stress and cost and time.

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Steal this menu: Pacific Northwest-style comfort food (plus root beer floats!)

Perhaps I was jonesing for some comfort food, but when I spied the menu from Lisa and Kevin’s garden party comfort food wedding, I was all “YESSSSSSS.” So I asked Lisa to give us even more information on their wedding day noms.

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Steal this menu: Buffet-style, locally sourced, Eastern Shore wedding picnic

Here’s a menu for those of you who live on the Eastern Shore and want to incorporate local-style fair into your wedding menu. Alternately, it could be a menu for ANYONE who loves seafood and beer.