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Our guests has the option of four entrees, and on the menu card, we used the "choice of" phrase and listed everything. I think that's pretty standard, so you won't run into people not getting it :)

Our guests had to pre-select their entrees as well. I asked our venue about that because I know some venues will ask that you identify each seat with the meal preference by a color-coded sticker on their place card or something. But ours said that they prepare for people switching their preference by making a few extra of each entree, and they've never had problems. They said that they'll occasionally run into this problem at events, but when it happens, only a handful of guests do it, and they're always covered.

I think "choice of" is fine because most guests know that they've already selected theirs when they RSVP'd. If it makes you feel better to say, "pre-selected choice of," I don't see anything wrong with that, either :)

I would definitely ask your venue about how they like to handle that, though.

@curlydreamer: That's a cute idea! If a venue wants to indicate meal preferences at each seat, I think the most common is to put a sticker on the placecards, and different colors mean certain meal preferences (i.e. blue for beef, yellow for chicken, etc.).

Then there are venues like mine that just prepare extra and didn't need to know who exactly ordered what. My sister works in the "special events" industry as wait staff, and she said it's always best to check with the venue what they prefer.