Omigod, you're kidding! You poor thing-he should be made to clean the kitchen after dinner for a month for doing something like that-I'd have him light the grill and I'd fix burgers and steaks with easy side dishes tonight to minimize the mess (and your stress). I'm sure everything will turn out great, but my sympathies are with you, just the same.
My hubby has committed such rash acts a time or two, but not since I threatened to have him hanged, drawn and quartered last year after he showed a neighbor and co-worker of his the master bath (he was remodeling and wanted ideas) while I was grocery shopping one Saturday-before leaving, I had emptied the clothes hamper onto the dressing area floor and separated the laundry into loads to carry downstairs to wash when I got home-and there it all was, right in the middle of the floor. Then he asked them to come to dinner! I was able to get out of the dinner by calling his wife, who understood my distress completely at the prospect of cooking an unplanned dinner for company when I'd just gotten back from the grocery store 20 miles away with provisions for two people only-we met them for dinner at a restaurant instead. After the riot act I read hubby for doing that, he never did it again.
You're right-it isn't like they have to got to the store to get the stuff, scurry to clean and pick up the house then cook something you are proud to serve company and clean up-and all on short notice because a husband didn't stop to think before he invited...
You would not make it in my family.
Dinner guests can vary by 10 with no notice, at all.
and both halves of the couple apologized profusely, knowing that xshub had extended the invitation without me being present. it worked out very well and i am glad they came.