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Summary: There IS an alternative, it CAN be done and YOU can do it!
Review: It has been a true privilege to provide this essential information to all brides who wish to have the wedding celebration of their dreams. This is YOUR day, YOUR moment and let's not forget, YOUR money! Enjoy it!
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Summary: Sanity Saver!
Review: Just when I thought my head was going to pop off... Cater Your Own Wedding arrived in the mail. It had all the lists that I had started and misplaced, including drawings of table lay outs for 50 to 100 people. It broke down the job of organizing a party into neat catagories, each with it's own check list, enabling you to delegate whatever you couldn't handle yourself. The book includes recipes and amounts, number of chairs and tables needed, and things you wouldn't think of until it was too late. And it covers for different styles of parties, from a backyard reception or a fancy sit-down. This book isn't just for weddings, I'll use it again and again for all our large gatherings.
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Summary: Sanity Saver!
Review: Just when I thought my head was going to pop off... Cater Your Own Wedding arrived in the mail. It had all the lists that I had started and misplaced, including drawings of table lay outs for 50 to 100 people. It broke down the job of organizing a party into neat catagories, each with it's own check list, enabling you to delegate whatever you couldn't handle yourself. The book includes recipes and amounts, number of chairs and tables needed, and things you wouldn't think of until it was too late. And it covers for different styles of parties, from a backyard reception or a fancy sit-down. This book isn't just for weddings, I'll use it again and again for all our large gatherings.
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Summary: I figure this book saved me at least a thousand dollars!!!
Review: My daughter's wedding was last Saturday. It was a total success. I used this book extensively. Reception was held in my Church's Family Center (Gym). I totally laid out the tables as shown in the diagrams from the book. Mixed and matched the recipes from the different party formats in the book. The cheapest food I could find to buy was a dollar a piece for finger food (with my picking it up and providing the trays). So if each person ate five items, 200 people well, you can do the math. I did not spend near that, and had a much nicer selection of food. I also used his deorating tips. I will be saving this book for my next daughters wedding, and am recommending it to all my friends.
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Summary: I figure this book saved me at least a thousand dollars!!!
Review: My daughter's wedding was last Saturday. It was a total success. I used this book extensively. Reception was held in my Church's Family Center (Gym). I totally laid out the tables as shown in the diagrams from the book. Mixed and matched the recipes from the different party formats in the book. The cheapest food I could find to buy was a dollar a piece for finger food (with my picking it up and providing the trays). So if each person ate five items, 200 people well, you can do the math. I did not spend near that, and had a much nicer selection of food. I also used his deorating tips. I will be saving this book for my next daughters wedding, and am recommending it to all my friends.
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Summary: When was this book written? In 1975?!
Review: The proposed menus and arrangements in this book look like something from the Brady Bunch wedding. The recipes are a throw-back to an earlier time of cocktail wieners on toothpicks. Don't look for any vegetarian items, fusion cooking, or creative or modern recipes. If you are planning a wedding at a retirement community--this is the book for you. If you are under the age of 50, keep looking.
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Summary: Get Your Friends to Cater Your Wedding
Review: The title was misleading. I was truly looking for tips on how to successfully cater my daughter's wedding myself. This book's whole premise is to have 17 to 29 of your closest friends prepare an item and bring it. Just not my style. Although I really did like the outline of food on banquet tables, I found the book a little lacking regarding appropriate table centerpieces and other reception decorations.
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Summary: A Realistic Approach
Review: This book has drawbacks. It assumes that you have a LOT of reliable people prepared to help you cook. It is not a cookbook, and does not provide gourmet recipes. And it also assumes that quite a few people will be able to "work" during the reception, as well as ahead of time.
But it sure is a great help for those who want to have a wedding without hiring a caterer. With plans for a basic reception, an elegant one, a dessert reception, brunch, and even a barbecue, it will have a plan that will approximate your ideas.
Each plan includes shopping lists, with "hardware" like tables as well as food; diagrams for tables, rooms, and trays; and step-by-step directions. There are details of everything down to how to arrange the guest book table and where to put the groom's cake.
It is easy to adjust the recipes to your own taste, but the ones suggested are up to the usual standard for catered meals. And -- given plenty of willing helpers -- they will work, too. You may choose to get your ideas from one of the more elegant photogrph-filled books on the shelves, but you can still use this book to translate those dreams into reality.
And if you are doing a strictly cake-and-punch wedding, this book will allow you to set everything up with confidence in record time. It's worth having.
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Summary: Panicking no more!!
Review: This book is an answered prayer! Everyone (including myself) thought I must be insane to think I could provide my own catering. This book contains all the details you need to coordinate the menus, food preparation, supplies, and decorating yourself. Everything is spelled out in simple, clear steps so that even a complete novice (like me) can do it! I especially like the variety of reception styles and food choices - I plan to mix and match a few of the menu items. I'm so glad I found the book - now I can quit stressing about this aspect of my wedding and move on to something else! Good luck everyone!!! Tina (Wedding Date: 03/10/01)
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Summary: A Must Have for Catering
Review: This book is excellent! My wedding has not happened yet, but I find myself referring to the recipes and tips for layout, centerpieces, etc. when I have done baby showers, bridal showers, and my own home parties. Michael tells you everything that you need to know to have a nice reception or party.
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