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Old 07-05-2007, 07:28 PM
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Need Food/Beverage Ideas!

I'm planning formal recruitment for my chapter and I'm having some problems coming up with food/drink ideas for Chapter Night (used to be themes) and Prefs Night. The whole decor theme is The Fabulous Life of... for Chapter night and I wanted something fun, relatively easy and well, fabulous! I'm thinking about Shirley Temples for the drinks on this night.
As for Prefs I'm thinking petit fors and chocolate covered strawberries.

Does anyone have any suggestions or new ideas?
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Old 07-05-2007, 07:32 PM
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I would go with upscale type hors d oeuvres, you can actually get a lot of great pre-made stuff from places like Sam's or Costco in bulk for pretty cheap. Maybe you could display them on silver trays or have sisters that aren't talking to PNM's walk around with silver trays and offer them with cocktail napkins. I think that would very elegant and go well with your theme.

As for drinks, put anything in a champagne or martini glass and it will automatically dress it up!
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Old 07-05-2007, 09:07 PM
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Well, we can't use champaign or martini glasses during rush because it references alcohol. Are there other glasses that could dress things up?
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Old 07-05-2007, 09:31 PM
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I'd try to avoid plastic glasses - not being able to use any alcohol-related glasses limits you. Maybe iced beverage glasses (with a short stem?)
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Old 07-05-2007, 11:01 PM
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I'd try to avoid plastic glasses - not being able to use any alchol-related glasses limits you. Maybe iced beverage glasses (with a short stem?)
I start to post something earlier, but I was worried that I'd seem like an alcoholic.

It seems to me that at all elegant functions for adults, the glasses used are designed for one form of alcohol or another, for the most part.

You'd have ice water or ice tea glasses in most crystal patterns, but almost any table that would typically be set with them would also be set with wine goblets.

I'll be the curmudgeon here: banning a certain type of glass no matter what's in them because they "reference" alcohol is silly.

ETA: as a result of my apparently booze-o-centric knowledge of glasses, I couldn't think of anything for the OP for a while. Maybe you could use the punch cups that come with punch bowls, particularly silver punch bowls because they seem the most elegant to me. It seems to me that we may have used glass punch cups during some rounds of our rush, so apparently it can be done on a large scale, now that I think about it.

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Old 07-05-2007, 11:30 PM
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Depending on what your budget is, you can get petit fours, maybe even decorated with your symbol/mascot.
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Old 07-06-2007, 07:55 AM
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banning a certain type of glass no matter what's in them because they "reference" alcohol is silly.
True story. I wonder what whoever came up with that rule would think of the campuses that serve Mocktails during rush??
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