I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show up anyway. What’s the best way to accommodate them?

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

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I usually say simply, “What a nice surprise,” but I am then left to shuffle place cards, add settings (often unmatched) and ...

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These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.

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My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

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