How To Host A Dinner Party Like The Grown-Ass Adult You Are
Time to end rumours you live on packet noodles alone.
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We’re adults now. It’s no longer enough to order a pizza in, get your mates to BYO their own goon.
Here is a fool-proof, step-by-step guide to throwing a dinner party and convincing your guests of your maturity.
2. Pick up a classic, minimalist glass vase for the flowers your mates bring that will eventually die.
But at least they’ll look beautiful for the millisecond they're alive.
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3. Use light-diffusing votive candle holders for ~aesthetic~.
Yes, it sets the mood — but it also makes food stains harder to spot. Win-win.
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6. Find yourself some cloth napkins — a classic white or tonal colour that complements your table cloth.
Because paper serviettes only belong wrapped around a sausage sandwich.
PRICE: $27.36 for a set of six.
7. Play your carefully-curated playlist from a portable speaker (that doubles as a clock!).
To fill the silence when your guests are devouring your positively delightful meal.
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8. Build a cheese board attractive enough to tempt even the lactose-intolerant.
The rules of an excellent cheese board — something crunchy, something soft, something sweet, something sour. All atop a cheese board that looks like you might've carved it with your very own hands.
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9. Bring back wine buckets. Please, I beg of you.
Won't someone think of the sparking wine lovers?!
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12. Make sure the content of your salad bowl is interesting. Yes, I know what I said.
Ever tried a rockmelon and mozzarella salad? Just please, enough with salads that are nothing but tomato and rocket.
The irony of this photo is not lost on me.
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14. And lastly, a cake stand for that cake you maybe (definitely) didn't bake yourself.
Go for something simple like a vanilla sponge — they'll never know.
PRICE: $30.31.
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