2) Starting with the guest list: Do a list of everyone you’d like to invite and sort them into following categories:

a) those who must be invited at all costs – parents, siblings, best friends.
b) those you still see and keep in contact regularly – friends, ie. work colleagues, long-term mates from uni, football etc.
c) People you recently met, ie. new work colleagues.
d) Friends you haven’t seen in a long time and don’t keep in contact with, and family members that you don’t have a relationship with.
a)and b) should get an invitation to the whole event; c) could come to the evening do; and d) shouldn’t be invited at all.