Joining families

Well, i am having a get together tommorrow night of eight people, i was just planning on it being three, but we all know how these things can grow. I am excited for it will be the first dinner party with my family and my boyfriend, we are trying to combine cultures and up to this point it has been easy because it has been just us, so we will see what happens, anyone else have this going on around the holiday times, let me know