#party-etiquette

#party-etiquette

For the next few weeks we will be in a bubble that has its own festive rules. This is an alternate universe in which it is perfectly acceptable to have Michael Buble on your Spotify playlist and to drink at lunchtime (to be fair, it is almost dark by then) and non-negotiable to play parlour games.

"If you're meeting at a restaurant and the [reservation] is at 8pm, you have to be there five minutes before that, but if the party is in someone's home, I think you should be fashionably 10 minutes late," says etiquette consultant Patricia Maybury (theetiquettesuite.ie). Any earlier, and your host may still be frantically finishing their make-up or chopping up lemon slices.