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is it a bit odd to be invited round for Christmas by someone you had only really met once?

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hatwoman · 20/11/2007 23:45

a few weeks ago I went out for a work-related dinner, I sat next to a woman and, i felt, we really hit it off. chatted all night about work, kids, London - a really lovely evening. I saw her again tonight at a similar event - though we weren;t sitting next to each other so only chatted at the end of the evening. anyway her and her husband are both american and have no family in the UK. So it came out tonight that they will be spending all of christmas just the two of them, plus their toddler. she was saying how they'll have to book at least one meal out or they'll go a bit nuts. we have Christmas dinner on christmas eve in the hat house and I have a half a mind to invite her but I fear seeming odd. downsides are - I need to convince dh to invite someone he has never met and who I barely know; I don't know her dh - and for all I know he could be a complete knob (I doubt it, but it happens); she might think I'm a weirdo bunny boiler. she is very lovely and so easy to get on with I expect she picks up friends all the time - I doubt that to her mind we particularly clicked - she probably gets on with everyone. so would you invite her or is it a bit silly?

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Tortington · 20/11/2007 23:47

i think its alovely gesture and xmas eve isn't as formal

however if it is YOUR formal dinner then it might be a bit rubbish imposing strangers on your family - so what about boxing day?

bookthief · 20/11/2007 23:49

I would invite her. I didn't invite a friend-of-a-friend one year because I thought it might be a bit weird. I then spent all Christmas thinking about him sitting all on his own and got a row off my mum for being so inhospitable . He probably had a perfectly nice time with his carryout and a bunch of dvds.

Do it! You'll probably have a great time and maybe make some new friends.

salsmum · 21/11/2007 00:55

hatwoman,
i think thats a lovely idea sharing and caring is what xmas is all about .
I have my ex hubs here every xmas day my new partner fine with that.
I just cant bare to think of friends/family on their own on xmas day .
even though he does insist on reading EVERY cracker joke. lol

eidsvold · 21/11/2007 01:06

no that sounds great..... TO me - being away from home that first Christmas in the UK - I was invited to be part of a family christmas - my friends gathered us poor, away from home foreigners - fab dinner and we had a great time.

naturopath · 21/11/2007 01:16

Definitely invite her - ditto all of the below.

branflake81 · 21/11/2007 14:19

Definitely invite her. We had the same people for xmas every single year until one year when it came to light a couple of people we knew were going to be alone, so we invited them. I did wonder if it would be weird as they didn't know everyone (or each other) but it ended up adding a real splash of variety to xmas and we have now invited "randoms" ever since.

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