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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not fancy.  If I've invited you to my house for dinner, we're friends.  So if you get there 10 min early -yay!  More time to hang out and catch up.  Get there 30 min early-- wow you're a real friend-- you want to chat, just us for a few minutes and you're willing to taste something and tell me if it's done, help me set the table, stir the pot while I go change.  It's nice.[/quote]

Me, too.  But, then again, I don't host fancy parties where I have to change clothes before guests arrive.  If it's a fancy party or one where I'm not good friends with the host, I would arrive 5 minutes after the appointed hour.[/quote]

Why does changing clothes before a party mean it's fancy? If I'm having people over for anything, no matter the level of formality, I still want to look and feel my best.

If it's specifically a dinner party, I will have spent the morning & early afternoon cleaning the house thoroughly, cooking, possibly helping DH deal with last minute outside chores, and handling the kids --depending on their age and the situation either feeding them early and picking up their babysitter, feeding them early and getting them settled upstairs, or taking them to a babysitter/relative/friend's house for the night.

If I've just done all of that of course I will want to change out of my most likely sweaty and messy clothes into something else nice and neat so I can enjoy the evening. I definitely need those last 10 minutes -- I set my preparations based on the time I planned for people to arrive which is any time between the time on the invitation and 30 minutes after that time.[/quote]

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