Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: how can I matchmake two dinner guests?

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issue 28 August 2021

Q. What is the best seating plan when you have a supper party where you are hoping to matchmake two of the single guests? If you put them next to each other, everyone will stare to see how they are getting on. Or is it better, when you move everyone next door, to have coffee and then say ‘Who hasn’t talked to who?’, and put them together then?

-— A.E.,

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