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It's Just a Dinner Party: A Modern Approach to Entertaining with Style and Ease

It's Just a Dinner Party is the modern entertaining guide for today's busy young professionals. Often, people with financial independence and resources to entertain find themselves without the free time (or the desire) to entertain in the competitive and craft-driven old-fashioned style. What today's successful people need is some realistic advice for entertaining stylishly -- and with ease.

It's Just a Dinner Party delivers exactly that. Ron and Julie's "guest-centric" approach to entertaining stresses simplicity, grace, and a refreshingly genuine hospitality. It's Just a Dinner Party simplifies and demystifies the art of throwing any dinner party -- for business or pleasure -- and debunks the impossible standards and craft-focused aesthetic set by style mavens of the past.

After years of entertaining together while building their own careers, Ron and Julie have discovered the secret to simple, stylish entertaining -- and it has nothing to do with handmade place cards or awe-inspiring centerpieces. In this honest and humorous entertaining guide, they reveal straightforward and simple techniques for party planning, relaxed etiquette, bar and menu basics, and a few reliable recipes for any occasion. Most importantly, they show you how to enjoy entertaining -- and how to ensure that your guests enjoy themselves too.