Need Food/Beverage Ideas!

[jesidz]

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!

[Ivygirl8985]

Well, we can't use champaign or martini glasses during rush because it references alcohol. Are there other glasses that could dress things up?

[SWTXBelle]

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?)

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

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.

[cuteASAbug]

Depending on what your budget is, you can get petit fours, maybe even decorated with your symbol/mascot.

[Katmandu]

In the Pleistocene era when I went through rush (yes, in 1973, we were Rushees...) one of the houses had, in addition to other goodies, a large beautifully carved watermelon basket filled with icy cold fruit kabobs on little decorative skewers. The basket was garnished with edible flowers and there were more flowers strewn around it on the table.

Double whammy, as it served as both a gorgeous centerpiece and yummy refreshments. On a 100+ degree afternoon in Oklahoma, it was lovely...

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Katmandu

In the Pleistocene era when I went through rush (yes, in 1973, we were Rushees...) one of the houses had, in addition to other goodies, a large beautifully carved watermelon basket filled with icy cold fruit kabobs on little decorative skewers. The basket was garnished with edible flowers and there were more flowers strewn around it on the table.

Double whammy, as it served as both a gorgeous centerpiece and yummy refreshments. On a 100+ degree afternoon in Oklahoma, it was lovely...

Oh, this sounds good. And with them being kabobs, serving is easy.

[Ivygirl8985]

Oh wow, that sounds really good! Where would you get an ornately carved watermelon though? Because I gaurantee we couldn't do it ourselves!

I also like the lemonade/tea idea....for some reason I was thinking drinks needed to be much more difficult than necessary. Would those go in punch cups or should I try water goblets?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

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??