Facts about throwing good parties
For New York’s No 1 Socialite, Angela.1) Prioritize your ease of being over any other consideration: parties are like babies, if you’re stressed while holding them they’ll get stressed too. Every other decision is downstream of your serenity: e.g. it’s better to have mediocre pizza from a happy host than fabulous hors d’oeuvres from a frazzled one.2) Advertise your start time as a quarter-to the hour. If you start an event at 2:00, people won’t arrive till 2:30; if you make it 1:45, people will arrive at 2:00.3) Invite a few close friends to come 30-60 mins earlier to set up / eat dinner with you / hang out / whatever, so that when the start time approaches you’re already having fun instead of stressing that nobody will come.4) Most people will only go to a party where they…
