If you are invited to a dinner party at a well-regarded higher-end restaurant where your dinner is being paid for by your gracious host, and you RSVP'd that yes, you will in fact be attending the festivities, it is both incredibly rude and absolutely classless to then just not show up and also not bother letting the host know. Where did you grow up, BFE where three-course plated dinners cost $5.00 per person and the main course consists of roadkill-on-a-stick, so it's "no big deal" if you can't be bothered attending when you said you would? Or are you just such a socially backwards retard that you don't understand the RSVP concept in general? I understand that it's a French phrase, and this might be difficult for you, so let me try and help you out. "RSVP" is the acronym for the French "Répondez s'il vous plaît" which means "please respond." Subtext: "Or else you are an inconsiderate asshat."
Here's another helpful hint: Final guest counts are normally due three to five business days in advance, and most venues have limitations on the maximum number of guests in their private dinner party rooms. So for the four or more of you who were no-shows, not only did the host have the privilege of paying for your imaginary f-ing dinner, which someone else could have actually enjoyed, but you simultaneously prevented someone else from attending because of your utter selfishness.
Hosts generally have cell-phones, BlackBerries, email, mutual friends... hell, I don't care if you use a carrier pigeon. Don't be an inconsiderate asshat, and "never go full retard!" If your situation changes and for whatever reason you cannot make it, the socially accepted thing to do is to let the host know, as early as possible.
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