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Party Planner Checklist for Mary Ann

Mary Ann’s Party Planner

One Week before:
Set timeline (when to serve)
Plan menu and hors d’ouevres
Plan tables, tablecloths, flowers, centerpieces
Get paper goods: napkins, paperplates, plastic silverware, plastic cups for drinks and shorties for wine
Dessert plates?
Make ice
Jeff… Spider detail
Pool and Spa check!

Three days before:
Declutter home
Have Rosa come
Check toilet paper supply in bathrooms
Set up play area for kids
Umbrellas
Make ice

Two days before:
Get out cooler or bucket for drinks
Power wash outside
Powerwash chairs and tables
Make ice
Clean chicken coop
Flush waste line (jeff)
Order food (if ordering out)
Make ice!




One day before:
Make lemonade concentrate
Freeze floating center for punch
Buy: Water bottles, beer, wine, sodas?
Prep food for salads, etc.
Set up tables inside
Set tables if inside
Set up tables outside
Water glasses
Wine glasses

Day of:
Flower Mart
ICE and ice bucket
Empty trash cans throughout home
A/c in Outside Inn for guests?
A/c in home?
Parking passes needed for overnighters?
Set up coolers
Set tables (if outside)

Other:
Set up coffee station; caf and decaf
Sugar, creamers etc
Salt pepper?

* Recipe Contributed by Mary Ann and Jeff Laun