Things may be different now but when I graduated high school in 1992, we did not give gifts to other students we went to school with if we went to their parties. If my family attended a students party, they would give a small gift and if their families attended my party, I got a small gift. Friends don't give each other graduation gifts...at least no one I knew did

For food, I would suggest something easy. We always like doing buffet of mexican food: beans (big cans are cheap at Costco), rice, shredded chicken or pork (we get this by the bag at a local mexican restaurant Taco Del Mar for cheaper than I could make it), tortillas (soft and hard shell), cheese, lettuce,tomato, onion, cilantro, chips, queso and lots of salsa!

That way folks can have tacos, burritos, nachos....or just snack with chips and salsa. It's pretty reasonable and we always have people rave about ours (we do this kind of buffet two times a year with friends/family of about 60-100).

HAVE FUN!

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