Plan Your Next Party Like A Pro

The feeling that a party is enormous is a distortion, not a diagnosis. A well-planned party is a series of small, finite decisions made in a fixed order, and the moment you impose a sequence, the project shrinks. A barbecue for fourteen and a graduation dinner for fifty share the same skeleton.

Gives the theme as a decision-making shortcut with a three-question test, the checklist that is not a flat to-do list, the food plan step by step, and the day-of playbook that keeps you the host and not the butler. Closes with the mistakes that sabotage an otherwise great party.