A little about Saturday Night's dinner

We are not having a big to-do on Saturday night (the party is a Sunday lunch at a restaurant).

We are having a dinner and a Family Game & Movie Night at the Marriott Courtyard where the out-of-town guests are staying. The restaurant is not open for dinner, so we can use the space, as long as the food is cold only. I'm bringing in kosher deli...and since there's no reason to rush home afterwards, we're also bringing in lots of games and using one of the meeting rooms to show a movie (Transformers). To round out the theme, I purchased popcorn bags and a banner from Oriental Trading. Trader Joe's has pareve popcorn.

For centerpieces, I'm stealing and modifying an idea I saw at a Hadassah function. I found great plastic containers that look like popcorn boxes at Target for a dollar each and tons of non-dairy non-Halloween-looking candy at 75% off (post-Halloween--the store overbought for the holiday). I then went to the dollar store and bought the cubes of the green stuff you use with artificial flower arrangements and pipe cleaners. I'll put a cube in the container, cover it with tissue paper, stick some pipecleaners in (twisting the tops of them prettily), and throw in a lot of candy. Viola.

The centerpieces will go on the many tables dotting the lobby restaurant (where the game playing will take place) and the popcorn will be waiting for the kids in the meeting/movie room. We'll all hang out together--it should be nice.