"Big Lunch" at St. David's, Delta

Two weeks after the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 19,  organizers of St. David’s 7th Annual Big Lunch will roll out the red, white and blue in recognition of another Royal occasion.

Moving the parish picnic from a local park to the car park at the church for a celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in June, 2012, was the start of a new-to-Canada way of bringing parishioners, friends and neighbours together around the Big Lunch Table. Since then parishioners of the church in the cul-de-sac of Tsawwassen’s 51A Street have welcomed large numbers to ‘community-spirit by the plateful’.

Barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs, salads and desserts, are on the menu but there is also a special feature – cake and ice cream. 

The Queen’s 90th birthday in 2016, Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017, were marked by appropriately decorated slab cakes and a Royal Wedding will be no exception. Big Lunch cake will help span the distance between St. David’s and far-away Windsor where the nuptials took place May 19.

The Big Lunch idea was launched in the UK in 2009 and last year alone registered 9.3-million participants across the Commonwealth. 

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• Singing the the national anthems at the 2017 Big Lunch marking Canada's 150th Anniversary
• From BBQ to buffet tables at last year’s Big Lunch in St. David’s car park. 

PHOTOS: Elizabeth Murray and Mary Horton