Dawat help!!

I’ve recently moved into my own house (alhamdulilah) after living with my in laws for 2 years. I have quite a few dawats to host and I want to invite people over little by little rather than doing one massive dawat because I simply don’t have the room or the capacity to be cooking for that many people in one go (it would be about 100+ if I just invited my husband and my own close family). So I’m going to do it family by family (like my husband’s mamu and co one day, then my husband’s aunty and her husband and kids etc.)

I have a little baby who is now 7 months mashallah and he is very active and newly mobile so it’s a task and a half trying to cook and clean and then supervise him too. My husband works during the day so I don’t get a lot of help in the day time.

My house also isn’t 100% ready but people are insistent on coming so I just wanna get a move on with it.

I’ve invited my own uncle and his wife and kids this weekend.

Does anyone have any good dawat hosting tips, any quick and easy recipes, or any other helpful suggestions?