I'm in a current dispute with my wife over a party we are having this weekend. We have roughly 25-30 people coming, mostly couples. The party is at night, we are not serving a dinner but will that various appetizers but nothing too heavy. My wife hired the nanny of our friends to work the party, help serve people drinks and clean up. I've told her that I think it is totally unneccessary and somewhat pretentious. She thinks it would just take the burden off of us as hosts and we can just enjoy ourselves for the evening instead of making sure everyone else is having a good time. Typically I'm the one that makes sure everyone has what they need to drink and almost always I pull myself out of whatever drunken stupor I'm in at the end of the night and do all the cleaning so we wake up to a clean house in the morning. I'm going to make a big thing in sangria, we will have lots of craft beer and tons of wine. I suspect no more than a few folks will opt for the various mixed drink options we will have available. I would think after getting everyone their initial drink that most folks will be self-sufficient. We have a room in the house with a bar and it will be a pretty easy set up. Normally, I would have to make a bunch of trips to our garage fridge to replenish the beers for the bar, open up new bottles of wine and make a few drinks.
We are not fighting about it, just agreeing to disagree right now which pretty much means my wife will get her way. She thinks I've brought it up too late and thinks it is rude to cancel on our friend's nanny so late (party is this Saturday). Granted, the nanny is a cute little college spinner but it still seems like something we don't need.
We are not fighting about it, just agreeing to disagree right now which pretty much means my wife will get her way. She thinks I've brought it up too late and thinks it is rude to cancel on our friend's nanny so late (party is this Saturday). Granted, the nanny is a cute little college spinner but it still seems like something we don't need.