Guest IQ
The list, the count, the plus-one nobody invited.
Guest IQ is for whoever owns the list. The count is the number every vendor bills from, so every lesson in here is also a money lesson in a nicer outfit.
The 10 questions
- We’ll fix it on the seating chart — Three people still haven’t answered. The seating chart is not the caterer.
- “Plan for eighty percent” — Somebody who loves you is going to say it. Your mom, your sister, the friend who got married in June. Here’s how to think about it.
- The uninvited plus-one — Your college roommate replied for two. You invited one.
- The shellfish situation — Your cousin’s allergy is on her place card. In calligraphy. It looks great.
- Nonmachinable — Square invitations. Gorgeous. The post office has a word for them. Slide to what the word costs per envelope.
- “Adults only, please” — No kids at the reception. Your plan is a line on the invitation, in calligraphy.
- The better rate — Two kinds of room block: a courtesy block, or a contracted one with a better rate. You take the rate.
- Ten to a table — The venue’s rounds are sixty inches. Everyone says ten. Slide to how many actually sit comfortably.
- A quarter of the room is on the patio — The room holds most of them. The rest get the patio, a door frame, and the back of a speaker.
- Black tie, two plastic stalls — The invitation says black tie. The barn has a gravel path, a parking field and two portable toilets out back.
Every Guest IQ question is pre-written: Belle asks, you answer, she tells you the truth about the answer you picked, and the careful version waits on Boards. Your ladder here is your own; a subject becomes its own IQ at 3 questions.