His audience: 14 elegantly dressed guests seated at a "chef's table" in a private dining room with a fireplace.

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Guests seated next to each other should have something in common, whether it is a hobby or home state, to spark conversation at the beginning. (Ms. Fierro typically introduces seatmates to each other at casual cocktails before dinner.) While she says she enjoys intellectual conversation at the table, she's wary of heated debates.

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After cocktails, over 650 guests were seated for dinner at tables whose centerpieces were plasma balls.

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After the guests were seated at the table, and as the turkey was about to be served, Lewis ran out to the backyard very quietly.

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They are ready by the time guests are seated.

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GARCIA-NAVARRO: The event had the pomp of a real inauguration, complete with seated guests and a fireworks display.

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The locale has been decorated with flowers and other finery, and chairs have been laid out for guests to be seated.

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Up to 30 guests can be seated at the room's dozen tables, each adorned with crystal glasses that circle the reproduction absinthe water fountain at the centre.

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Earlier, arriving in ascending order of royal rank, members of the British Monarchy and Middleton family made their way down the red-carpeted nave of Westminster Abbey, greeting guests before being seated.

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Guests sat in white-seated rows under a gleaming chandelier while women swathed in pink and green paraded down a runway set in front of a gold pipe organ.

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