ok,,,the stress begins. my parents want to have a catered party at their house on the deck. they do not have a big back yard so we thought we'd just keep it to immediate family.problem is that fh family is huge and i get the feeling that if i do invite they ALL then someone will be insulted. Its so annoying, i feel bad for my parents since they are doing this all for us. im just going to invite a few extra ppl from his family and thats it. its so hard. any advice?
We had a catered eparty at our house on my parents' deck for 80 people. We absolutely loved it, and wouldn't have changed a thing. We had a tent put over the deck incase it rained (which it didn't), servers, a bar, bartender, tables, chairs, etc. All I can say is that the larger a catered party at home gets, the more expensive it gets. If it is price that you're worried about, then i would suggest you look into having it at a restaurant, b/c by the time we got done it would have been a LOT less expensive to do it that way. If you're worried that people will be insulted if they're not invited- I wouldn't worry to much. It's about what you and FH want, and if you want it to be intimate it should be. Don't waste your time trying to please everybody.
