PO, Renda, and others.... Need your help.... - Page 4

Pressing-On · #31 02-07-2013, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

...there goes all the pretty desserts on the table.

Wouldn't that be fun???

Yes, it sure would be. And if we had those dirt cake terra cotta pots - all the more.

Well, I can hear it's getting violent around here. I pulled out the rubber bands guns for my husband and our grandson. I can hear the little tyke screaming, so I IMAGINE my husband is shooting the boy with his.

Laters!

BeenThinkin · #32 02-07-2013, 08:17 PM

Ron, I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm gonna show up now. They'll be trying to put those saddles on us!

Have fun ladies!

Been Thinkin

Esther · #33 02-07-2013, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

No. Terra Cotta is for real dirt, just couldn't do it.

lol your something else.

Pressing-On · #34 02-07-2013, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Ron, I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm gonna show up now. They'll be trying to put those saddles on us!

Have fun ladies!

Been Thinkin

Back in the saddle again.....

Esther · #35 02-07-2013, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Ron, I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm gonna show up now. They'll be trying to put those saddles on us!

Have fun ladies!

Been Thinkin

Did anyone mention lasso's?

BeenThinkin · #36 02-07-2013, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Esther

Did anyone mention lasso's?

Boy, this is getting out of hand! Hi Oh, Silver away!

BT

MissBrattified · #37 02-07-2013, 08:22 PM

I like the bandana/bread basket idea. Hannah's 16th b-day party was a country/western theme. We used the ball jars for drinks, and I also used burlap for the tables + quart sized ball jars with sunflowers and baby's breath for simple table centerpieces. Her party was outside, so we did hay bales tucked up to the tables in lieu of chairs. Another cute country look is to use strings of bunting strung from corner to corner at ceiling height and across the fronts of tables. It's really easy to make with twine, a stapler and patterned scrapbooking paper. It's high impact if you use it all the way across the room--with minimal cost

If you want to avoid the cliched country look, go with colors that aren't traditionally country. Hannah's birthday colors were teal and yellow with some brown and pink here and there. Of course, it was for a bunch of kids planning to spend most of their time on football and 4-wheelers, so I didn't go very far with the outdoor decorations; I kept it minimal.

Paula had cute centerpieces for Barak & Robyne's reception--she had a *slice* of a stump in the middle with some moss here and there, a quart-sized ball jar with a strip of burlap + some lace around the middle + flowers. (I don't remember what the flowers were...she could probably email you a picture if you PM her on fb or text her.) You could do the same thing with burlap + gingham ribbon.

You could also make a cute photo-op area with hay bales. Considering that it's a mother-daughter banquet, you could dress them up by throwing antique tablecloths or other linens across them. Something we've done a couple of times is had 2-3 old ornate picture frames spray painted white for people to hold up in front of their faces for pictures.

Menu-wise-- Maybe skip salad and have slaw and deviled eggs instead. You could serve fried chicken in shallow galvanized pails lined with white napkins....

...or gingham:

I'm also a huge fan of these little mini-buntings stuck into desserts:

Esther · #38 02-07-2013, 08:22 PM

You could make a jail and put in the corner and take pictures.

Saw that in Kemah on the boardwalk.

Margies3 · #39 02-07-2013, 08:27 PM

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Loved the idea of bandanna hankerchiefs wrapping the silverware and tied with jute! Also, the lanterns on the serving tables would be nice, IF you have a serving table, if not on each table or lanterns on some and boots on some.

Lots of great ideas PO, as usual.

I KNEW I could depend on you ladies (and gents) for some great ideas! thanks sooooo much!! We're going to get the handkerchiefs and tie them around the silverware with jute. We had talked about that earlier today because Pat has a boatload of jute available to us

But I do like the idea of putting them in the jar until they are ready for their beverages. That's kind of cute.

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Do you know anyone that has a saddle or two? A couple of saddles by the door would kinda set an atmosphere as they enter. Trying to save myself Ron. Not about food this time.

Been Thinkin

Been Thinkin!!! That's a FANTASTIC idea!! and I am sure I can come up with a couple of saddles. (We're a small town out in the country, after all

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Did anyone mention lasso's?

Esther, I hadn't thought of lasso's, but that's a good idea too. Now to figure out how to use them for decorating.

I saw some big cutouts of cowboy boots on the Oriental Trading Company site but they are very expensive. I can draw them easily and we can just cut them out of brown poster board to hang on the walls. Might do that. We'll see.

If we do the handkerchiefs around everyone's silverware, they can then take that home with them at the end of the night. Is that tacky to send them home with a used favor? LOL

Margies3 · #40 02-07-2013, 08:34 PM

I hadn't thought about brisket. I wonder how that would go over with ladies?

On the other hand, how will they feel about fried chicken? that's kind of a finger food, in my opinion. Very hard to eat with (plastic) silverware, even if we get the really good plastic (which we will)

I've been trying to think of traditional southern dishes to have. Bean soup comes to my mind. But do we need soup AND a salad? And if we do bean soup, we definitely will not do baked beans. One or the other maybe.

We want traditional southern foods (like Kentucky/Tennessee type southern foods). But we also want foods that the ladies will enjoy. So I hesitate with things like bean soup for that reason.

The other thing I am trying to decide is how to serve these foods. In the past we always had them get up table by table and go into the next room where the food is laid out buffet style. We can do that. But I really don't like doing it that way.

So my other two options are:
1) We can have the men fix their plates for them, then bring them in on serving carts and pass them out. or
2) We can serve the foods "family style". I would get a whole bunch of disposable (but nice) serving platters and bowls. The men could put enough chicken on a platter and enough of the other stuff in the bowls to put at each table. Then the ladies could pass the food family style.

What do you think? What would be your preference?