Menu Cards & Programs...yes or no?

To save money, we are not doing programs. We haven't decided if we're going to do menu cards, but they may be cut as well.

Do a menu poster sized at the beginning of the buffet line, and the programs can help if your ceremony is different or unique, to explain it to people, but mostly they get thrown away

I most likely will do some menu cards but skip the programs ---- not sure yet - this is my "on the fence" decision to make

My venue supplied menu cards. I made my own fan programs so it was less than $15.

I'm not doing either I don't really see the point. I am doing the menu sign tho.

Skip them both. Just seems like a waste of money and paper (and one more thing to stress about!) to me.

I did programs with a kit from Michaels Arts & Crafts. It was really cheap w/a coupon but I spent several hours designing it, and for a while there the spacing kept screwing up. Aggravating but worth it. I scanned in and included little photos of DH and I as kids with our deceased parents. So hopefully more guests actually kept their programs. As for menu print outs, I didn't do it. We also had different food stations as opposed to a sit-down dinner. I think the venue already had little cards on the tables telling people what the foods were. No one would keep a card with the menu on it for sure.

I didn't do either one.

The church automatically prints up programs for us for free, so no brainer there. I haven't decided on menu cards.

I did programs but did them myself. Kind of like to give the guests something to read while waiting for the ceremony to start.

The menu I actually put on my table number. So it was only one per table.

I'm on the fence with programs...if we do them, I will add fun tid-bits about me & FH on the back side of them. As for menus, I'm having a buffet so I may skip it.

I'm doing programs but only because I am incorporating them into our ceremony decor by using colorful ribbons to hang them from the chairs. Otherwise I wasn't sure I wanted to spend the money on them. Also, almost everyone coming is coming as a couple so I'm thinking of hanging them off every other chair. Cuts the cost in half.

I didn't do programs because they were really low on my list of priorities and I ran out of time. I did do menu cards that had our wedding pic app on the back. I had a groupon from VP and needed to meet the minimum, otherwise I probably wouldn't have done them. We had a plated meal and I thought they added a nice tough.

Not sure yet. I have been going back and forth on these....

I'm doing programs because I'm doing a Catholic wedding Mass and most of the guests aren't Catholic... so I wanted to give them something to follow along with and not get lost and bored. I won't be doing menu cards, I'll have little signs of what food is what... we're having sandwiches and salad. I never understood why people gave out individual menu cards.

Having something at each place setting can add a lot of color to the table for not a lot of money. I ordered "thank you" cards for each of my guests from andparties.com and they were less than $1 each!

We're skipping both. We're doing a "poster" sized program when the guests walk in so they can look at it before they sit down.

I'm going to a buffet/ pot luck style and in front of every dish I will have a little label. As for the programs FH and I are splurging for fun:

Order of ceremony

Music Starts

We get married

Everyone Parites

Just for the fun of it Part of FH and my way of having fun yet giving guests the idea that we're formal.. lol

Hello ladies,

Here's my take about the programs.

http://bodamaestradc.com/1/post/2014/06/5-major-wedding-planning-pitfalls-you-must-avoid.html

We are doing a buffet and we are doing menus at each place setting for two reasons:

1) a lot of our guests have good allergies, so we will clearly label what's vegan, dairy free and celiac friendly on the menu so that they can plan their meals before getting in line

2) to add more colour into the table. I am printing them to be 4" wide and our decorator will fold the napkins around them, so it's kind of a decoration too in a way.

Programs? I'm not too sure, but it will be a last minute thing if we decide to do then.