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Insider Guide.(going to parties)
Insider's Guide etiquette
HOW TO INVITE your-self TO a PARTy
By Elizabeth Harrison and Lara Shriftman Harrison and Shriftman are partners in a publicity firm, and authors of the upcoming Fete Accompli! The Ultimate Guide to Creative Entertaining (Random House). It's not just regular people who call us to be added to a party's guest list -- we get requests from celebrities and socialites, too. Playboy magazine's fiftieth anniversary bash where Pamela Anderson jumped out of the cake drew the most requests. The secret to getting invited is all in how you ask. * Know your limits. You can't invite yourself to a wedding, a seated dinner party, or an intimate cocktail party -- for those, the only appropriate thing is to ask an invited friend if you can accompany him. Trying to get into larger, less personal parties is fine, as long as you don't make a habit out of it. When we draw up our lists, we can simply forget people. And if someone lets us know that she'd like to come, we might be flattered and say, "Sure, what's one more?" * Plan ahead. Don't call the day of the event. Contact the host a couple of weeks in advance. And don't confront him in person -- it puts him on the spot. Make your request by email, by voice mail, or through his assistant or public-relations person. Say, "I heard about your party, and it sounds great. Is there any way I could come?" It may be more graceful to ask a close friend of the host to call on your behalf. * Offer something in return. To better your ...
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