This is by far the wedding banquet that I am most excited to attend, and am eagerly looking forward to it. Usually, I really am not interested in attending wedding dinners unless they are ones of very close friends.
In any case, I have a date with Xi Yan on Nov 16. Yes, I have made my booking–get this–even without having found six people to fill the minimum number required at the table. I figure the other four (‘cos olduvai is definitely coming along) will turn up somehow, somewhere. We WILL get people!