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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Person w 35 guests…are
 You cooking all yourself? What is the menu and seating arrangement[/quote]

Hi, yes, I cook all myself with the help of my sister and kids.  My husband and BIL handle the bars and drink stations.  Whomever does Thanksgiving also does Christmas that year because the setup is the same and it involves less schlepping things around.  So this year I have both Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Next year it will be my sister's turn.

We have a formal living room that runs the width (front to back) of the house.  We clear out all of the furniture (some to DR, and some to garage) and set up two long tables to seat everyone, and then I run the buffet at the back of the house in the living room but directly off of the kitchen.  Because we take the dining room table out of the dining room to use in the LR, we set up some couches and chairs in the DR for elders.  The kids and the rest of the family can go to the basement rec room or the family room.

A long time ago I bought 30 catering type chairs (those wood/cane stackable kind) at a going-out-of-business sale that I keep in the garage.  Each year either I use them or my sister does, depending on who is doing Thanksgiving and Christmas.

My sister's house is a much different set up and she has a humongous Great Room so that's where she sets up her dining tables and buffet.  Then she uses the Dining Room and the formal Living Room for watching games and hors d'oeuvres.

Either way it works.  We each have a full complement of china and crystal so at least we aren't moving that stuff back and forth.  We like very formal dining tables and we go all out with the decorating.  It is funny to think we've been doing it this way for 10-20 years and each year it still feels special and different because we change the menus slightly or alter the decorating, etc.[/quote]

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