what would you expect if the invitation said "come for ^refreshments^

[June2009]

hi there,

We're having a christening party at home and the invitations go something like:
"Please join us for the christening at the church at 3:30 pm and afterwards at home for refreshments".
I've left it purposefully vague enough as we haven't really decided for sure yet what we mean by "refreshments".

This is on 27/12 (between xmas and new years where people eat/have eaten loads) so we decided to prepare a cold buffet (30/40 people).

I've realised that we're going to be back from church at around 5pm, and wondering what people will actually want at that sort of time.
Im thinking maybe just tea/coffee & cakes but DH thinks that we should do a cold buffet (that was the original plan until I questionned it).

What do mn think?

heya,

thank you all for your input, this is what we ended up with for 20 people. (+cake and cheese platter not on the pic') It was fab'.
Drinks wise we had champagne, red wine and white wine, got the glasses from sainsburys.
We borrowed a water tank for tea. (only made 4 in the end though!).