It seems like a lot of you mers are also into Renaissance Faires and so I wanted to get some ideas for a Medieval Banquet that will be taking place at a church camp that I am going to be a counselor for. The camp is later this month.

Basically the youth minister asked my boyfriend and me to dress up in our Renaissance attire for the banquet. The youth minister was saying how he was wanting everyone to go all out for this event. Well I started thinking about ways to make this one of the best camp themed nights ever. The local Ren faire we have here isn't nearly as impressive as some of the ones with buildings and castles, etc and not many people really dress up nor do they really talk old English. I wanted to make this night super exciting for the campers especially since it is going to be probably the last full day of camp and the last camp dinner before we all head home.

Since I raise peafowl I have bundles and bundles of peacock feathers, and I know that in Medieval times they would serve peacock and put the feathers back on the cooked bird to make it look fancy. We certainly won't be eating peacock, but I will be bringing peacock feathers to decorate the mess hall.

While my boyfriend and I have really good Renaissance attire (thanks to my Mom who bought the costumes years ago when a theater group was selling some of their costumes) we are not that well versed in Ren Faire or Medieval Faire things. I have been looking up words and their meanings and compiling a list and I thought it would be fun to try and learn some of these words. I was also thinking I could make a few copies of the list and put it on a few of the seats so that people can speak a little old English if they want.

Other than that, is there anything you all can think of that would be a good addition to the banquet? The mess hall is very plain looking - nothing like a banquet hall - so it would be nice to transform it somewhat. The transformation has to take place after lunch of that day so whatever I do it can't take too awful long.

I will need to re-read the camp rules (seems they get stricter every year) but my boyfriend was excited to bring his sword and then I remembered that they don't allow weapons. To me his sword is hardly a weapon. I don't think it is sharpened at all and he can just keep it in the scabbard most of the time. I guess we will have to see...

I have been rooting through my costumes trying to see if I have anything medieval to bring incase a girl or a guy doesn't bring something. I found a wench top and I need to find a skirt for it.

Anyways, I hope you all have some ideas! In the meantime I will be looking for more costumes in my room and also I will be researching some more ideas for the banquet. The youth leader told me to feel free to bring whatever for it so I am taking him up on that haha.