OK, 5000 may be a slight
exaggeration but yesterday my sister and I did feed about 175 people. My cousin got married and we offered to serve the food. The wedding was at 3pm so we served snack foods instead of a full meal. This is what my kitchen counter looked like prior to the big day. We borrowed all the trays and
crock pots so I had to store them all before hand.
Then on Friday we set up the church; this is what it looked like when we arrived.
After the church was set up we spent all of Friday afternoon making and preparing food. Here my mom and Brittany are chopping vegetables for the pasta salad and vegetable trays.
One tray complete, many more to go.
This was our little coffee station at the church. It may not look that impressive, but for my sister, mom and I who don't drink coffee this was a minor victory. Although we were told that for an afternoon/evening wedding you shouldn't serve
caffeinated coffee (sorry to all the guests who couldn't sleep all night!)
This was the only fridge we had use of in the church. See how packed full it was? We actually had to put a table in front of the fridge to keep the door closed because it kept popping open.
A picture of the completed pasta salad.
And our meat tray.
And the cheese tray.
And the rolls.
And meatballs.
Even
Maxx helped set up the tables.
Here we are waiting for the guests to arrive and happy everything is in place.
The finished product ready for guests to eat.
After everyone had eaten we also had to serve the cake. Thankfully Charissa came and
helped us with the whole event. Between keeping the plates, punch bowl, coffee creamer and everything else filled, it was nice to have the extra hands.
We had just the right amount of meatballs, rolls, meat and cheese and jello salad, but made way too much pasta and potato salad. For our first (and maybe only) attempt at feeding 200
ish people it went quite well.
Then on Friday we set up the church; this is what it looked like when we arrived.
After the church was set up we spent all of Friday afternoon making and preparing food. Here my mom and Brittany are chopping vegetables for the pasta salad and vegetable trays.
One tray complete, many more to go.
This was our little coffee station at the church. It may not look that impressive, but for my sister, mom and I who don't drink coffee this was a minor victory. Although we were told that for an afternoon/evening wedding you shouldn't serve caffeinated coffee (sorry to all the guests who couldn't sleep all night!)
This was the only fridge we had use of in the church. See how packed full it was? We actually had to put a table in front of the fridge to keep the door closed because it kept popping open.
A picture of the completed pasta salad.
And our meat tray.
And the cheese tray.
And the rolls.
And meatballs.
Even Maxx helped set up the tables.
Here we are waiting for the guests to arrive and happy everything is in place.
The finished product ready for guests to eat.
After everyone had eaten we also had to serve the cake. Thankfully Charissa came and helped us with the whole event. Between keeping the plates, punch bowl, coffee creamer and everything else filled, it was nice to have the extra hands.
We had just the right amount of meatballs, rolls, meat and cheese and jello salad, but made way too much pasta and potato salad. For our first (and maybe only) attempt at feeding 200ish people it went quite well.
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