“It’s alright. You’ll be just fine,” my friend reassured me as we walked up the cobblestone roadway to this stunningly palatial mansion. She previously showed me pictures of the fourteen-bedroom, ten-bathroom home with a state-of-the-art backyard swimming pool, but seeing it in person was a whole different story. You think this would be a formal get-together, but to the contrary, it is a festive, carefree affair. There wa...