I am not a party expert and I am certainly no Martha Stewart, but I have a few rules when I throw a party and to the best of my knowledge no one has ever complained about my get-togethers.
- Have too much food. Nothing is worse than someone leaving your party hungry. I would rather have a few leftovers than to have someone looking around for something else to eat. Also, make sure that your platters have food on them and your snack bowls are not empty. If they are empty either fill them or pick them up, nothing looks worse than an empty food place when there are still people there.
- Have too much beer/wine/alcohol. See #1. You can drink alcohol anytime and you will drink it before it goes bad so better to have too much than not enough.
I will add more to this as I think of it, but these are the two most important rules.