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These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.

I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show up anyway. What’s the best way to accommodate them?

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In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a host seeks advice on handling friends who arrive without RSVPing.

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed -- china, crystal, linen, silver -- that other relatives ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed — china, crystal, linen, silver — that ...