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[Battlefrank]

Hello! I want my dwarves to party, but rarely any of them ever attend!
How do I make them party?

[Tenebrais]

Give them more free time, so they hang around the meeting areas and make friends.

I assume you have meeting areas, if parties are being started with little attendance. If not, make a room from a well or a statue, and your dwarves will party there.

[Jim Groovester]

What? You want your dwarves to party? So you want your dwarves to spend all their time partying instead of doing important things like bringing items to the depot or forging armor for your soldiers or making crafts?

Make sure you have lots of idle dwarves and a meeting hall designated from a piece of furniture. Then they'll party. And that's all they will ever do.

[Battlefrank]

I love how active this forum is, I declare it as my new place of interresidence.
Welcome me aboard!

my EXTREMELY expensive project to make a proper (platinum and gold filled) burial for the dwarf "Gordon Freeman", who slew a berserk dragon peasant(with 100 all stats)(Dwarf companion), has been making a lot of work. I will finish this work and then make a HUGE party room.
all I need to do is make
-2 gold statues
-engraved hall
-golden door(done)
-15 platinum wall
-golden coffin(done, legendary artifact)
Truly a worthy burial, for when everyone but the dwarf named after me(heartbroken, his lover died, I am disturbed by the fact that it was only a mangled lower body...) and gordon freeman (I didn't modify him) died. He proves to continue to be an invincible hero, even out of his original setting.

[madpraxis]

....Wait...I use my super sense powers to guess you haven't played DF long....I may be wrong though. But most..scratch that...ALL DF gods do their best to keep their dorfs from partying...seriously, you'll be kept up late at nights trying to find ways to make them happy without having them throw parties. Though...you can just do what I do to help strain the genetic soup of my dorfs in my favor. Build  bridge above the fav rave site. Load bridge with lava. Wait for those lazy ass gits to throw a party. Pray that one dwarf out of a hundred is NOT partying. Pull lever hooked to bridge. Enjoy the flaming dwarves running in circles. For added fun hook a bridge up on the path to said rave room that goes up at the same time blocking the way out.

[cyks]

my EXTREMELY expensive project to make a proper (platinum and gold filled) burial for the dwarf "Gordon Freeman", who slew a berserk dragon peasant(with 100 all stats)(Dwarf companion), has been making a lot of work. I will finish this work and then make a HUGE party room.
all I need to do is make
-2 gold statues
-engraved hall
-golden door(done)
-15 platinum wall
-golden coffin(done, legendary artifact)

Dude, that is nothing really (except maybe for artifact).

[Battlefrank]

my EXTREMELY expensive project to make a proper (platinum and gold filled) burial for the dwarf "Gordon Freeman", who slew a berserk dragon peasant(with 100 all stats)(Dwarf companion), has been making a lot of work. I will finish this work and then make a HUGE party room.
all I need to do is make
-2 gold statues
-engraved hall
-golden door(done)
-15 platinum wall
-golden coffin(done, legendary artifact)

Dude, that is nothing really (except maybe for artifact).

Well, given the fact that my fortress is pretty much dirt poor and retarded, it is.

[assimilateur]

Enjoy the flaming dwarves running in circles.

Seems like you too haven't been playing this game for too long or are trying to be funny, because fucking up your dwarves for partying, instead of preventing parties in the first place isn't really a reasonable course of action. Neither is it interesting, creative or funny, I'm sorry to say.

[sev]

....Wait...I use my super sense powers to guess you haven't played DF long....I may be wrong though. But most..scratch that...ALL DF gods do their best to keep their dorfs from partying...

Piffle.  If you're a serious masochist, er, I mean, DF addict, you love the challenge of running a fort where everyone's best friends (except for the dozen grudges each) and a single mishap can cause 200 dwarves to dash about madly, kicking over buildings!

Um.  But seriously, it's typical in my fort to have a bunch of dwarves standing around with "No Job" even though there's a party going on.  The size of the party-space may affect the number of dwarves who attend; I just freed up a party and re-sized my 3x3 statue garden to be 7x7, and the next party thrown there was much bigger than the previous one. 

However, dwarves will leave the party to get something to eat or drink, and then not come back.  I believe that this attrition means that parties start big and then dwindle. (so, the size of the space may have nothing to do with it at all.)

If you wanna fake it, you can zone a meeting area on top of the party space, and then the "No Job" dwarves will hang out in the same space as the party.