, we're all looking forward to this year's party season. Only now we've been hit with a cost-of-living crisis (sigh) and the word ‘budget' hardly screams ‘party extravagan
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pan>Mary is an etiquette expert best known for appearing on Channel
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box.I have just been to a very stylish party for 50 which cost about £200 in total, or £4 a head.
One reason for the success was the venue — a borrowed artist's studio with an open fireplace and 슬롯나라 a log fire crackling. But the prime driver of satisfaction was the low expe
ions of
guests. Following two Covid Christmases, we're all looking forward to this year's party season. Only now we've been hit with a cost-of-living crisis (sigh) and the word ‘budget' hardly scr
‘party
ravaganza'Our host had contacted each household in turn saying he'd love to see us and had the chance to borrow a great premises for a party.

He said we didn't need to bring anything as he had some ‘reasonable' wine, but would we mind if it wasn't ‘very grand' because he is fairly broke at the moment? Oh, and by the way, there would just be cocktail sausages, and so we should factor in having to go home or to
staurant to
afterwards.It was a stroke of genius.
I imagine the majority of the fellow guests were relieved, as we were, that we'd not be faced with displays of extravagant spending which would be impossible to compete with w
we gave a p
of our own.