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What time of day will the "after party" be? That might help with suggestions. Do you need to do a full meal or can you get away with less?

I know I've gone to the deli and made my own meat and cheese trays. I ordered a bunch of sliced meats and cheeses and rolled them up and arranged them pretty on a platter a long with rolls.

130 people? Dang! How many people can you get to help you / assign a dish to?

Cheap thoughts for food that would feed a lot:

Baked ahead trays of pasta that can be reheated morning of (and then served room temp), with green salads (for salad toppings just dump a can of black olives in a bowl, chop up a red onion, pint of cherry tomatoes left whole and a bag of croutons). Baked ziti with spicy sausage (and one just pasta and sauce).

Crockpots of pulled chicken/pork, buns, cole slaw and pickles, BBQ sauce.

Crockpots of chili with toppings (cheese, sour cream, scallions, chips, etc.)

Pesto pasta salad (served room temp)

Platters of meat, cheese, breads, red onion, pepperonchino, lettuce, tomato, etc. Serve with chips, etc.

I think your idea of the platters of sandwich fixings would probably be easiest especially if you can farm out some sides to relatives. Like have 2 people bring big bowls of potato salad, someone bring a pasta salad, etc.

I like the pulled meat idea. You could enlist people to each roast a pork shoulder. Super easy and cheap. Probably if 4 or 5people each do a chicken and a big (7-9 lb) pork shoulder you'd have plenty
All you would need are a ton of burger buns, Cole slaw (can buy at Costco), chips, fruit salad (if you want, or green salad) and a lot of bottled bbq sauce. This would be really easy
You actually don't need a crock pot. Roasting pan, oven at 325, bbq rub, 6 hours, done.

@travelgirl1: If you're looking for things that are easy to do ahead of time and don't need to be heated up, I think sandwich trays are the way to go. Then you can have various salads that can also be made ahead along with the other things you listed.

Another salad type dish I really like is Broccoli salad. It's very easy to make and you can bake the bacon in the oven rather than on the stovetop. I use this recipe but leave out the raisins and cashews.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/237090/broccoli-and-bacon-salad/?internalSource=staff%20pick&referringId=15103&referringContentType=global%20nav