FAO any Cooling Castle brides past or present

I'm not cooling castle but when we have a work ball with options we usually use the first letter of the choice.

eg: S. L, C would be Salmon to start, Lamb main and chocolate dessert.

If you have 2 things that start with the same, at our last ball the printed menu on the table was labelled with (a) (b) and (c) for each item for each course and the corresponding letters were on our place cards:

Eg;

Starters:

(a) Fish

(b) Soup

(c) Mushroom

HTH

We've done a menu for each guest by putting it into a spreadsheet and doing a mail merge - very easy, especially as when we got our replies we uploaded them onto our wedding website and then you could just export it to excel.

Getting married there on Tuesday!!!

We put a short description- so prawn cocktail was just prawns.....tomato ans motzarella was just tomato.... lamb shank was lamb....sausage and mash was sausage....etc!

Eeeek not long now!

To OP - we have 'luggage style' place names and have just written one word descriptions of each course on the back e.g. duck,lamb,chocolate or soup,veggie,lemon etc. Cooling provide a full printed menu on each table for the guests to refer to. As long as the waitresses can identify what the guest is having by what you write on their place name then that's fine.

Thank you everyone! I shall just use the shortened versions then if there will be a full menu to remind guests what they are having on the table.