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

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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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.

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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 ...