Even before our party Saturday, we were debating over whether to take next year off. We are taking next year off! It is a lot of work, quite expensive and now it has become frustrating.
This year we had approximately 115 people show up. That's not the frustrating part. The frustration comes from the 62 people that were no shows. No regrets, nothing. We paid at least $1500 for these mannerless people to not come.
Here's frustration part II. Last year we had tons of food left over. We use the same "caterer" and this year there were no desserts at all, 12 shrimp, 10, chicken satays and a few other odds and ends. The point is...with that many no shows we should have had an incredible amount of left overs. The chef had to take the leftovers...it kind of sucks. Either that or had the no shows actually showed we would have had some incredible struggles for the last bits of food. No way... they took it. We paid for it and at least we could have helped soothe our minor hangovers and bad feelings for our inconsiderate associates with all kinds of good food.
I do think we will scale the party down and invite our family and some close friends and have our own fun little party. Not that I don't appreciate seeing everyone, but two years of hard work and mega expense and more than a dash of frustration is enough to change the thing from fun to funk.
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Thought: the food was just that much more edible and delicious this year (it really was better). I actually got full this year....
So maybe people just didn't eat as much last year because the food was not as crave-inducing...
We bought $250.00 worth of desserts and there wasn't a trace of one. There had to be at least one that was mangled or bad looking that noone would eat. We noticed TONS of food in the kitchen late in the evening that mysteriously disappeared. I really wanted some quesadillas and guacamole to munch on during the Bear game Sunday. None!
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