From how to avoid a HR incident at the work Christmas bash to nabbing a last-minute table at a Michelin-star restaurant, the experts share their best advice to help you make it to December 25 unscathed
The festive survival guide
How to survive party season:
“If you’re meeting at a restaurant and the [reservation] is at 8pm, you have to be there five minutes before that, but if the party is in someone’s home, I think you should be fashionably 10 minutes late,” says etiquette consultant Patricia Maybury (theetiquettesuite.ie). Any earlier, and your host may still be frantically finishing their make-up or chopping up lemon slices.