The Great Wedding Feast

Last Thursday night was met with more success than I ever imagined. After weeks of planning and preparing and advertising, we put on our annual Enrichment Night dinner and nearly 60 people showed up. It was beautiful, though by no fault of my own. We had an amazing team of truly talented sisters with a great eye for decoration (thank you Tiffani, Lisa, & Sarah!!) The food was also incredible, thinly sliced tri-tip, roasted potatoes, Caesar salad, rolls, & this delicious cranberry-pineapple-coconut crumbly cake stuff served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Again I was not responsible, the menu was concocted by our Martha Steward Double: Caralee (she’s also our 2nd Counselor, yay!).

Our theme, which was “Drop by Drop: The Great Wedding Feast,” based on the Parable of the 10 Virgins, was kept a secret until the sisters arrived where they were met by a couple of our young women dressed as a two of the ten virgins. The sisters gathered in the foyer and then were directed down the hall to the Relief Society room. The floor was lined with Christmas lights which provided the only light as they walked down the hall to the glow of the Relief Society room.

The Relief Society room was lit by two lamps to keep the feel of being late at night and the sisters sat facing a table decorated with a picture of the Savior and a Lisa’s gorgeous Christus statue. Next to the table we had a screen set up so the sisters could watch a video based on the picture book by Emily Freeman about the ten virgins. When the video was over, we had our two young women and two other sisters call out, “The Bridegroom is coming, the Bridegroom is coming!” They led the sisters in a procession to the “wedding feast”. They each held a pole that was tied to the corner of a white sheet like a canopy over the procession and led the sisters to the cultural hall.



I can’t describe the cultural so you’ll just have to look at the pictures.

We had the sisters file past the head table which featured a beautifully framed picture of the Savior and a bottle of oil among other things to the food tables.

They filled their plates and found a seat.
















On the tables, as favors, we also had little bottles of oil (actually, it’s water with a hint of yellow food coloring), tied with raffia:
The poem says:
“Drop by drop we fill our lamps and light the flame within, So when we see His face again, we will be welcomed in.”

Caralee offered a few closing remarks between dinner and dessert and the rest of the time was spent with the sisters socializing. A big thank you to everyone who helped set up, serve & prepare dinner and dessert, and to all those who stayed after to help us clean up our mess! By all measures, we feel the evening was a great success!