Wedding Meal Choice Tracker, Dietary Restrictions, Allergy List (Digital Download)

Hand your caterer a clean count: meals, dietary needs and allergies - table by table.

MEAL CHOICE & DIETARY TRACKER - a ready-to-use spreadsheet for Google Sheets and Excel.

Opens on an app-style Home dashboard with a menu: click any item to jump to that tab.

FEATURES
- Meal totals and share for attending guests
- Dietary needs and severe allergies counted
- Meals-by-table grid for the caterer
- Missing meal choices flagged
- Meal and dietary charts
- Dropdown menus, colour-coded input cells and conditional formatting
- Formulas already built in - nothing to set up
- Soft, elegant colour palette

WHAT'S INSIDE THE FILE
- Start Here: step-by-step instructions
- Guests: Guest meals and dietary needs (300 rows) with table, RSVP, severity and notes for the kitchen.
- Caterer Report: Meal totals, dietary needs counts, severe-allergy count, meals by table grid, charts.
- Lists: Meals, dietary needs, severity levels and table names.

YOU RECEIVE 2 FILES
- Wedding_Meal_Choice_Dietary_Tracker_SAMPLE.xlsx (filled with example data)
- Wedding_Meal_Choice_Dietary_Tracker_BLANK.xlsx (ready for your wedding)

HOW IT WORKS
1. Download the files right after purchase (Purchases & Reviews in your Etsy account).
2. Google Sheets: open Google Sheets > File > Import > Upload the .xlsx > Replace spreadsheet. Excel 2016+ / Microsoft 365 / Mac Excel / LibreOffice: just open it.
3. Explore the SAMPLE version, then plan your own wedding in the BLANK version. Every file has a 'Start Here' tab.

COMPATIBILITY
Google Sheets (free Google account), Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer, Microsoft 365, Excel for Mac, LibreOffice Calc. Not designed for Apple Numbers or mobile-only use.

PLEASE NOTE
- This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical item will be shipped.
- Formats: .xlsx. Currency shown in $ - change the number format to use any currency.
- This is a planning tool, not legal or financial advice.
- Personal use: for your own wedding or event (wedding planners: one purchase per client). Please don't resell or share the files.
- Due to the nature of digital products, refunds aren't offered, but message me any time and I'll help you get set up.

AI disclosure: this template (spreadsheet structure, formulas, instructions, listing images and text) was created with the help of an AI tool (Claude by Anthropic) under the seller's direction, then reviewed and tested by the seller in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets.