<------- Finger Sandwich Queen!
I have a wonderful Betty Crocker cookbook that takes you step by step for the novice finger sandwich maker. If you have the time, I could photocopy & mail it to you.
Otherwise, I usually plan about 4 different types of sandwiches. If you have a bakery that will make colored bread, all the better! Order Pullman loaves, and have at least one of them sliced lengthwise instead of the regular way (some bakeries can't do that).
When making the sandwiches, keep an ever-so-slightly damp tea towel at the ready, and as you make them, cover them with the tea towel so they don't go stale. Also, butter the inside of the sandwiches VERY lightly so the filling doesn't goop into the bread and remember to always trim the crusts.
You could easily make Deltas (4 per slice of bread) for your Tri-Delta shower! Yellow bread would look nice, too. Try to contrast the colors for the most appeal, and keep the food coloring handy.
Good fillings include egg salad, tuna salad, ham salad, chicken salad, cucumbers (thinly sliced).
My personal favorites (obviously, I use the blue bread for ADPi!):
*Date nut bread spread with cream cheese (colored or not)
*blue bread with egg salad (yellow food coloring) or tuna salad
*white bread with ham salad or cucumbers.
*puff pastry (frozen sheets rolled out & cut with a buscuit cutter, then a hole made after they're baked) with chicken salad
*pinwheels made with the long pieces of the pullman bread; wheat bread with ham salad looks very pretty!
Be sure to have some small cakes (small frosted brownies, those mini-cheesecakes, lemon squares) and small edible but decorative fruit (small clusters of grapes, strawberries) scattered among the trays. A tea is one of the best times to remember "presentation"! Use the prettiest china, silver, or whatever you have, as it's truly "An Occasion"!!
Oh, you get to collapse afterwards....
