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Organizing Your To-Do List
Organizing Your To-Do List
This is extremely important – Be organized! You are planning this party and want it to be successful. You want to have fun and sport a
smile all evening. You don’t want the I forgot and have it impact your evening.
One week before
o Take a good look at your space. Do you have enough tables and chairs? Do you need to rearrange any furniture to make the space more
comfortable?
o Look around your space and consider decorations and where they will go. Think about fresh flowers or candles.
o For a formal dinner party think about your centerpiece. Also, where will it go when dinner is served.
o Count your hor d’ourves plates, salad plates, dinner plates, flatware and glasses.
o Check your tablecloth (make sure you washed it after the last time you used it). Napkins if you are using cloth.
Two days before
o Clean your house!
The day before
o Set up your bar area. Set out liquor, shakers, glassware, ice bucket, cocktail napkins and anything else you plan on use.
o Pick up flowers or schedule them for delivery.
o For a formal dinner set your table and place your centerpiece in the middle.
o Select your music.
o Set decorations and candles around the entertaining space.
The day of the party!
o Do a quick walk through and double check any pillows that need to be fluffed, dog hair or a wipe down of the powder bath.
o Set your flowers out.
o Clean you walkway or entrance way.
o Start the fireplace if the season.
o Set out appetizer platters
o Glasses should be placed on the knife side. If you are serving several wines with dinner then go to the wine section of this book for more
information. Water glasses should be place on the left hand side
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