Entertaining Made Easy: 10 Ways to Throw a Successful Party
The can't-miss secrets that will make you the hostess with the mostess!
Know Your Guests and Seat Them Properly
"At the end of the day, this is what makes the party work," says Rena Sindi, a party lover and the author of Be My Guest: Theme Party Savoir-Faire (Assouline). "You want to give everyone the best seat for them. I never put couples together, or best friends." Preston Bailey, the author of Preston Bailey's Design for Entertaining (Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company), likes dinner for 20 at a long, long refectory table. His gambit is to switch seating at each course. "And I like to have many courses," he says. "Instead of three, I have eight. All that moving really gets people talking."
From the
November 2002 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
