Every year our Union puts on a dinner for our retireed Firefighter. Used to be one lady did the decorations but she has come to me asking for idea the last few years, and again this year. I'm out of ideas. 2002 we did a very "firefighter"/ patriotic theme due to September 11th. 2003 it was a patriotic theme. 2004 it was a summery theme with the decorations being paper bags rolled down and sunflowers with raffia put in them along with raffia and ribbon to "fill in" We placed these in the center and ends of the tablesas well as in between. Keep in mind these are 8 ft tables. The tables are covered in the white plastic table cloth you can buy at a party store. We do this to keep down the cost as well as ease of clean up. We not only have to set up but take down as well.
This year I'd like a fesh idea/new theme. What we don't want is a "Hawian" theme. (let's face it, this is Arkansas, it will be the 5th of July it will also be at LEAST 95 degrees with 90-95% humidity. No way to make it feel like Hawaii! LOL ) This will be indoors. The food will be as usual (I've tried to talk into a change but these firemen are locked into a routine. But hey I did talk them into letting me take over the dessert. Now it's homemade cobblers, cookies, and this year cake) I digress, sorry. The food will be fried fish, chicken and what normally goes with them. Food does not effect the theme.
I need ideas for decorating the hall where we have it......Ideas ladies? Please, please!!! I''m begging for some inspiration!!! We also have a fireplace/mantel we contend with/have to decorate around......HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have loaded a couple of pictures in my webshots account, in the album titled "retiree dinner", so you can see what we did last year. Not great but they loved it........HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TIA Kenda (remove nospam to use email addy)