Comments on: Pot-Luck Wedding, Highly Recommended

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:31:22 +0000

I think a pot luck wedding is a great idea!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:07:17 +0000

That was great!!! Such a huge help and exactly what we wanted to say. I’ll share the link with our website when it’s up.
Thanks again
ps: i like the idea of making a few copies of the recipe book too!

By: jannamo

jannamo — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:46:18 +0000

Oh, I love the recipe card idea, that will make a sweet keepsake, and you could make copies for your maid of honor and other special folks if you wanted.

For the wording, we did a website to explain everything clearly, and I don’t remember what was on it, but likely it was something like this: To honor the spirit of sharing and community, the meal will be potluck style. In lieu of a gift, please bring your favorite dish to share for the potluck meal. If you are coming from out of town, your presence is all the gift we need, please don’t worry about a dish!

We also opened a couple charity options for people who wanted to give to something, and a couple of relatives/close friends handed us cash for our honeymoon which was nice too.

Good luck, would love to hear how it goes!

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:59:11 +0000

Hi! We’re also doing a potluck in our friend’s backyard, with compostable stuff, etc. We are asking everyone to bring their favourite picnic-type dish (ie. no heating required as we’ll have about 150 people) PLUS bringing the recipe card so we can make a book for ourselves later as a nice keepsake. Their contribution will be their gift as we are kindly requesting no presents.

We aren’t sending out paper invites, we’ve set up a website and we plan to send out a mass email with a little teaser line and include the link to our website where the “invite” wording will be on the homepage…

This is where I’m struggling a bit! How to incorporate the potluck into the wording? What did you do? Could you post a sample of your wording to give us some ideas?

Thanks and congrats on your day – sounds like it was amazing!

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:54:49 +0000

I was at this wedding, and I can concur about its fabulousness. It was personal and intimate, and definitely fit the two of you! Thanks for the invite, and the excellent idea about how to get married and stay out of debt!! I hope you at least spent some money on the honeymoon, though!!!

By: jannamo

jannamo — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:50:50 +0000

Hi Lauren,

Sorry for replying 2 years late, but there you are. We had about 100 people at our wedding and the key was hiring a server to take people’s potluck item on their way so they never had to think about it. Then she kept the buffet table fresh and clean, putting new hot items out as needed, so it never felt like a pot luck.

We had friends help with clean up, but we could have also just hired a second server to handle everything. We found a great person for $15/hr so it doesn’t have to break the bank.

It worked out famously, and I recommend it to anyone who is considering an alternative type of wedding.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:25:11 +0000

I love this idea so much! How many people were at your wedding? It seems like this would be hard to do for a big crowd.

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By: jannamo

jannamo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:41:19 +0000

That sounds like delicious minty hot chocolate! Great recipe, Gary.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:46:39 +0000

Nice look! Go, Janna.

Okay, how about this:

Ghirardelli’s “Double Chocolate” chocolate powder (few tbsp)
Half & half
Steamin’ hot water
One tea bag of Mint tea
Decorate with fresh mint leaf (which I don’t have at work)