May Tips for Planning Your Events
If your time is tight or you need help with ideas and organization, please call Denise Marquiss in the Events Planning Office at 766-3362. We’d love to help!
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Summer is here; or very close, we hope!Those of us living in Wyoming love the idea of being outside and enjoying as much of the wonderful Wyoming weather as possible.

Making the Perfect Outdoor Dish
Catering outdoors has its challenges: heat, cold, wind, rain or bugs.  However, it’s still possible to rise to the challenge and create great outdoor events.  Following are some food and fun ideas to think about when planning an outdoor event.

  • Some foods you might want to stay away from during the hotter months or take special care with include fruit displays, which can attract bugs, and cheese displays, which can be effected by hot temperatures.
  • Sushi bars do well in outdoor settings and remain popular.
  • Think about variations to the traditional American barbeque  - go international!  How about an Asian barbeque with satays, a Spanish version with fajitas, or a tropical barbeque with Polynesian honey-pineapple chicken with honey-glazed bananas as a side or dessert.  A Seafood barbeque with crab, shrimp or salmon would be tasty or for you hunters, how about a game meat barbeque or fresh caught fish.

Decorating Can Spice Up Any Summer Occassion

  • It’s fun to use bright linens and incorporate summer items as decorations.  Beach balls, beach hats, sunglasses, buckets and shovels, watering cans, and clay (or plastic) flowers pots, all make unique centerpieces.
  • Different shapes, sizes and colors of plates are the rage now.    Caterers say food looks better on them and guests notice.

Playing Summer Games Adds Additional Fun

  • Try this for some cool summer fun!  Divide your group into relay teams.  Each team will race across a field or park wearing oversized swim fins.  Once they finally get to end, they remove the fins, place hula-hoops around their waist and make five full rotations.  The race continues as they head back to the starting line holding a water-filled balloon between their knees, – drop the balloon and you fall behind.  Break the balloon and you’re penalized. If that’s not enough, each team repeats the process again, but this time in reverse order!

If you’re having an event and would like help with it, or need some ideas for fun centerpieces, give Denise Marquiss in the Events Planning Office
a call at 766-3362.

Visit outreach.uwyo.edu/eventsplanning today!