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Party Planning - Cocktail Hour Before My Wedding Reception

Expert: Patty Sachs - 9/18/2008

Question
I am having a cocktail hour before a four-hour wedding reception being held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in October. During this hour, I would like to have light hor derves (spell). I am expecting between 200 to 250 people at this cocktail hour. My goal isn't to fill them up as we have paid a fortune for the reception. I do, however, think it's only appropriate to have munches during this hour. First question is how many hor derves per person should I have? How much liquor is appropriate for this time frame? What's good to serve when you don't want the headache of keeping food hot? HELP!!!

Answer
Dear Sherry:

I usually defer these food and beverage questions to the caterer being used, who would have complete knowledge of the dinner menu, etc. However, when a caterer is not in the plan I have found the following links to be very helpful.

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf16274000.tip.html

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/Determining-Food-Quantities-When-...

http://entertaining.about.com/cs/recipesandmenus/a/foodquantity.htm

http://www.ellenskitchen.com/bigpots/plan/quicklook.html

http://www.partyplansplus.com/quantities.htm

I wish you a very happy and joyous wedding day, perfect in every way.

Patty Sachs
www.WeddingPlansPlus.com

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