<p>We do all. We have friends (two couples) who we get together with regularly for dinner, mostly going out to eat. We used to do it at home (and occasionally still do) but we prefer to go out now. I did a Christmas party for many years for a large group of friends then one of those friends took it over one year saying that I’d done it for long enough (in the nice way). She still does it and this year’s is next Saturday. This is a group, probably between 15 and 20 couples, that have known each other since our kids’ nursery school days, almost 30 years. Our kids went all through school together, for the most part. The wives/moms are extremely close, and the husbands/dads are close, within smaller groups who golf, play squash, travel, volunteer together. The ladies got together for many years for a weekend at one friend’s cottage, expanding the time as the kids got older. That cottage is now sold so we did one last big group at our place down south, and now it’s just a smaller group who comes each year.</p>
<p>It’s usually the women who organize the couple get-togethers. The men do their own planning for their events. Almost all is done through email.</p>