Ideas for an alcohol free event?

Ok, so I'm organizing a conference at school and things got screwed up with our alcohol permit, so we can't serve alcohol.

We were going to have an informal pizza/beer event one night, and a more formal wine thing the next.

Now we have to make it work without the beer and wine, and we want to distract people from the fact that we don't have alcohol by offering them something else that's fun.

My first thought was a make-your-own-sundae bar for the first night... but getting a freezer would be too complicated.
Chocolate fountains are too expensive (I checked)

What else could we do?

How about a mocktail party? serve virgin types of a lot of popular drinks and even get people to wear cocktail dresses/nice clothes.

Or maybe a murder mystery night just to add some fun?

or maybe contact your local pastry or culinary institute and have a tasting one night where a group of their top students serve up food for everyone to try?

I'll try to think of a few more ideas! What kind of event is it?

Originally Posted by capt_jordi

How about a mocktail party? serve virgin types of a lot of popular drinks and even get people to wear cocktail dresses/nice clothes.

Or maybe a murder mystery night just to add some fun?

or maybe contact your local pastry or culinary institute and have a tasting one night where a group of their top students serve up food for everyone to try?

I'll try to think of a few more ideas! What kind of event is it?

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It's a graduate conference (where graduate students and profs come to present their research).

Honestly, I'm still leaning towards the sundae bar... I wonder how long ice cream would keep in a cooler full of ice, and how much I could fit in the department kitchen's freezer (if there is one)

Pack it in dry ice and you're set for HOURS. Regular ice won't help you much.

Cally

Originally Posted by CatMom2Wires

Pack it in dry ice and you're set for HOURS. Regular ice won't help you much.

Cally

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where would you buy some dry ice?

Most grocery stores have it. We use it for halloween every year. Around here its 99 cents a lb so it may be a little more than regular ice but it does make things much colder! Just do not touch it!!! Might even want to put a little warning label on the cooler saying its dry ice not to touch.

dont forget the Tequila "shoots".. .... ...

I think the sundae party sounds grand, btw. If you can't booze it up, might as well eat ice cream. You could be really creative with the toppings with all the neat Easter candy out right now as well.

Cally