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5 Emergency Dinner Parties
Impress your guests using one of our no-sweat last-minute dinner party plans.
Guests are expected at 7:30 and you can’t make it home until 6. Don’t panic. Use these secrets to make your home look like it jumped off the pages of a magazine
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Countdown to Dinner
6:00 Grab your bag and get moving.
6:10 First stop: A grocery store on the way home. Pick up ingredients, flowers, votives, napkins and some wrapping paper. If you only stop once, you’ll save time. Head home.
6:30 Throw on an apron and tidy up. Put anything unsightly into the guest-room closet. Close all doors except for the guest bathroom and one bedroom (for coats). Quickly wipe the bathroom mirror, sink and faucet. Then give the surfaces in your living room a once-over.
6:50 Pour yourself a glass of wine and set the table.
7:00 Start kitchen prep.
7:20 Dim the lights and light the candles. Put on a fresh top and change your shoes. Give your hair a quick brush and touch-up your makeup.
7:30 Answer the doorbell.
Comment on "5 Emergency Dinner Parties"
Helen writes:
What a terrific idea! Thankyou for the helpful tips. I am working on a "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" idea for a service club that is hosting various mystery dinner parties. You've given me lots of ideas, let alone, hosting my own dinner party (with no fuss) during a busy time of year.
—posted November 19, 2007 at 9:44 p.m.
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