Got to the restaurant about 6pm and started setting up the room, shoving tables around and stacking chairs. Final layout was U-shaped, fives tables along each leg of the U, two tables at the base. Guests were seated outside the U, leaving a nice clear “runway” down the center for me. I had a prop table above the top of the U, which held my four white boards propped on easels, the glass bowl for the Q&A papers, the Zener Board, and some other things.
Some of the first orders of business were sticking an envelope under one of the chairs, setting the cards in position (actually used three decks, switched in and out as needed), and marking final “predictions” wherever they needed to go.
Some guests arrived early, and my wife chatted and kept them entertained until I was ready to greet them properly.
At 7pm most guests had arrived, and all the props were in order. I called everyone’s attention and we prayed a blessing over the tables, and released them to go grab some food.