Getting people to say yes
- Inviting people online - what a guest is actually deciding, which channel to use and six invitations to copy.
- When to send an invitation - lead times by event type and how to announce a change without losing half the guest list.
- Collecting RSVPs - the five real reasons people go quiet and a three-message sequence that works without nagging.
- Finding a date for a group - why waiting for everyone almost never works and what to aim for instead.
Keeping the plan alive
- Escaping group-chat chaos - the four ways a thread kills a plan and a host’s script for closing decisions without being bossy.
- Dinner party planning - how much of everything to buy, a countdown that works and the timings that ruin otherwise good evenings.
The money and the memories
- Splitting a dinner bill - four methods, worked through on the same £263.25 bill, including the £15 the non-drinker quietly loses.
- Splitting party costs - kitty versus settle-up and a worked twenty-person budget with the 15% everyone forgets.
- Sharing photos privately - what each option really exposes and how to get more than eleven photos, nine of them yours.