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Tue 3 Feb, 2004 06:53 pm
I am having a champagne brunch and have sent out invites. I have
received a variety of responses...yes, no and maybe. Since when was
maybe alright? Doesn't simple courtesy mean that you give the hostess a rough idea of the numbers?
the 'maybes' need a swift kick.
I hate it when people tell you that they might come. And according to Murphy's law, you will expect them not to come and then they'll come barreling in with twenty of their friends.
Quote:the 'maybes' need a swift kick.
With steel-toed boots.
Call the people up who said "maybe" and tell them "maybe" you won't have the champagne brunch after all.
That's perfect colorbook!
I agree that you should get a yes or no, but I haven't recieved my invitation yet :-(
Hey Montana, I wish you could join us....I have
sent around an email saying I must have numbers
by Friday! that should solve the problem of mebbee's!!!
Yup. You can't throw a party without numbers. Have fun ;-)
I want a champagne brunch! That would be a definite yesyes from me! How folly to say maybe to that! (Love strawberries with my champagne, yummmm)
Shepaints--
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. People who start with "maybe" and then reluctantly commit can find something more fun to do at the last moment, leaving you holding the bubbly.
Good luck.
How do you feel about getting the guests to do clean up or cooking.....or am I just pushing things too far?
This is champagne brunch is going to be a blast with or without the mebbees!!!
If someone offers to help, wonderful. Assigning chores to the unwilling isn't terribly hospitable.
shepaints wrote:How do you guys feel about getting the guests
to do clean up or cooking.....or am I just pushing
things too far?
Just keep the champagne flowing...ask them to talk with you in the kitchen, while you clean up or cook. Hand someone a spoon and ask them to please stir. Ask someone else if they would mind bringing you more dirty dishes...before you know it, you should have at least a few helpers.
...might push the unwilling into the "maybe"
category next time, Noddy24!!
Shepaints--
If you don't want indecisive grasshoppers.....
Happy party!
shepaints wrote:...might push the unwilling into the "maybe"
category next time, Noddy24!!
What's the menu? ...besides champagne & strawberries...
Here are some
flowers for your table!
...The menu, Piffka, as of this hour is
French Canadian Tourtiere and chutney
Good Morning Potato Salad with apple, bacon, poppyseeds and cream
Crisp Green Beans tossed with avocado and
dressing
Asparagus gratinee
mixed organic greens with raspberry dressing
assorted breads
champagne and orange juice....
coffee cake, coffee or tea and toblerone chocolate
all sampled after partaking of this winterwonderland.....
plus whatever else I can think up by tomorrow
at 11am........
Thank you for the bouquet Piffka!
Sounds fabulous, shepaints. Such a variety of things... yum. I had to look up Tourtiere.
Hope it all goes well.
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