RSVPs - how to ask for menu choices?

We will be doing similar - we have 3 choices per guest for them to choose from. Your mock up looks good, the only thing i would say is will your venue need to know what each guest has selected (as opposed to the number of dishes overall)? Ours is a sit down meal, and I will be making a copy of the table plan with food choices on per guest for the venue. This way, they will just bring out the food to the guests without asking what everyone has ordered. As a back up, the food choices will also be on the back of the place names as a reminder for both the venue and guests. I will be including a menu choice card for each guest - so if a couple, they will get 2 menu cards - with the guest's name at the top, and then tick boxes for them to select which option per course. This way, I will be able to tell the venue who has chosen what. I understand that may be a lot of extra printing for some people, but we are having approx 50 day guests and our friends are printing the details for us. Plus the venue has said it really helps them to organise and sort the meal better if they know exactly where to send the food. HTH!

On my invitation I listed the choices for each course giving each one a letter, A, B, C, D etc, then I printed RSVP cards for each family listing each person's name and then making a column for Starter, Main, Desert and asked for them to note the letter for each choice. Worked really really well and means I can give the venue the seating plan and the list for what everyone will have so each plate can be taken directly to it's correct recipient.Then I'm printing place cards with each person's menu chioce underneath so hopefully no problems on the day.

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I'm having the same dilemma!

We need 3 choices from each person and I'm still not sure the best way to do it. I don't know if we need to know who has chosen what food or just numbers for the venue?

I currently have mine like this... (I'm also putting in a menu with full descriptions of each dish)

R.S.V.P

Kindly respond on or before April 28th 2015

Name(s) ______________________________________________

____ Accepts with pleasure ____ Declines with regret

Menu choice (please tick and initial)

Starter Main Dessert

Soup ­­­____ Chicken ____ Mousse ____

Pate _____ Pork ____ Citrus Tart ____

Prawns _____ Salmon ____ Crème Brulé ____

Pasta ____

Interesting thoughts, thank you all it does help. I would need to specify to the venue who is eating what (this will be colour coded for the 2 options on a print out of seating plan i provide them), but i am hoping as it's only a choice out of meat or vegetarian then (knowing our families) the majority will be meat choice. And any veggies ticked i could guess quite well who it could be. But even that sounds risky, so i like the idea of asking them to tick and initial, as that shouldn't take up too much extra room on the card. I'll have a play around, thanks for the suggestions!