There's a well reheased and practiced technique of what I call a "non-vite": an invitation (or offer) that you know very well that it will be rejected, making you come out a prince for making the so-called invitation in the first place. Some classic examples are like inviting someone for a dinner and knowing that person is busy.. I mean these non-vites do not have to be evil really, sometimes, your party size might be limited, there's really a plethora of possibilities. On a more mundaine tip, you can ask someone to go out, giving them virtually no lead time about it, and they probably won't come.. like calling someone on the way to the club, saying you'll be there in like 10 min.. "yeah let's meet up".. good one.

Now there's a slightly more complicated matter of uninviting a person. Hey shit happens. Especially in the days of evites, an extra checkbox can be so quickly clicked. What to do then? I'm not sure what evite actually does when you do decide to "remove a guest" but I imagine you can no longer access the party information and your may get an email notice. You could easily create an evite and test out the feature but who has time for that when you can rant ad nauseum about it. You could also be gracious and talk to the person in question, telling them why you don't really wanna see their face. That's a pretty awkward call to make. But I think the person on the other line probably feels like shit too. It's a bit like a break up you know, you could paint a nice picture, but in the end, the facts remain and stare glaringly at you. Okay, dramatizing.

So it seems like no one really comes a winner on an uninvitation, well unless the person being let go was an ass, but the moral of the story is get your guest list correct! That'll spare some brusied egos and/or permanent injuries