How much is enough?

You lose about 50% in cooking from bonein butts.

Multiply your raw weight by two and that equals how many four ounce sanwiches.

This nicely fills a standard cheap white hamburger bun.

Thus 40 lbs raw bonein butts,gives you 80 sandwiches.

Hope this helps a little.

Thank you Tom.

Well, I may get in trouble here but if it for your folks and that big 60th I would suggest giving them a full course of meats that they and the guests would not forget.

Pulled Pork, Ribs, Brisket, and Chicken.

If you were close by I would gladly bring my Cookshack smokers and help you.

40# usually gets me around 22-25# of finished product. I usually will reintroduce some of the liquid that is cooked out of them. I boil it for a few minutes and add enough to make a product with the moisture/texture i like.

I would suggest along with the pork, you do a few burgers on the grill and put them in a liquid to keep warm, hot sausage would be a nice additon also. The gathering I have done for, have ben mixed on the pulled pork, most like it but some just prefer something else.

Make a batch of BBQ sauce to go with it.

Thanks Fullthrottle & Shtrdave for the advice. Unfortunately I will be the one that is putting this together as my folks do not know about this. I plan on pulled pork sandwiches, potato salad and baked beans with a large cake. As stated I am new to the smoking thing and would be nervous trying to fix ribs, brisket and chicken. So I thought I would stay with what I know works to be sure of success. I do have people that are willing to help with the serving and cleanup but the preparation seems to be left up to me. Fullthrottle thanks for the offer, but they live in Lebanon, Oregon; a little far for you to come. I will load my smoker in the truck and drive down two days before so I will be sure everything is setup. Thanks again for the advice.

Just a quick thank you for all who responded and helped out with my questions regarding this anniversary party. The anniversary reseption went off with a great success and my folks were very pleased. We fed 125 people, 45 more than we expected. I had to pickup more items at the last minute when my sister called and told me she was getting more reponses from the anouncement than expected. So here is what my girlfriend and I did for the BBQ:

(6) 8.5 to 9 lb boston butts. It took 17 hours at 235 degrees to smoke. Used cherry and apple wood mixed. They were done around 9:00 pm Friday evening, I coated them with cattlemans BB

32 quarts of baked beans.
10 quarts of potato salid
10 quarts of macaroni salid
15 quarts of cole slaw

OOPs.
I mixed 2 cups Cattlemans BBQ Sauce with a quarter cup honey then coated each butt, wrapped them in plastic wrap and them tin foil. Placed them in a cooler to allow a slow cool down. Then Saturday morning around 7:00 am with pulled them out and pulled the pork. They were still warm and very jucie. There were raves about the pork and people said this was the best they have had.

Way to go GHB, ya just gotta love a successful mission!

Thanks Brewbek, yes it make one feel good to do something that turns out great for someone special. However this is the first time I have ever mixed up baked beans and cole slaw in a plastic washbasket.

Congratulations on pulling it off. That was a bunch of people to serve.

"Raves about the pork" <----I knew you would do it