Last night I went to a fundraiser for the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective, it was a semiformal big gala dinners, this one in called “One Big Event.” They had a very good comedian for the entertainment, Suzanne Westenhoefer and she had me laughing for most of her act, of course it was on the elections, gays and
The dinner was so-so, but I really don’t expect the food to be good when you have all most six hundred people that they have to feed. I left right after her act was over and before the band started playing, I am not that much for dancing and the band looked like they were going to be loud. So I left around ten-thirty.
One of the support group that I with has a banquet ever year in the spring and we have a heated argument discussion each year over food. Some people want more than two choices, but in order to add a third choice to the menus means a higher price for the dinner and we try to keep it under $50. The two dinners that I attended this fall were $65 and $100 and you didn’t have a choice of menus. Some of our members think it should be held at restaurant instead of a hotel, but many of our members cannot come dressed en femme because of family reasons, so they need a room to change in. Some people come a long ways and they stay over for the night or they drink too much and need a room to crash in. Other people think that we make a ton of money from the banquet, but we price it to the nearest $5 of the actual cost and we charge an extra $5 if they make their reservations late, so we only make about $3 - $8 per person and we have a little over fifty attendees.
It is so much fun organizing a banquet.
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