Julie entered the room to find about 100 festively-dressed people chatting cheerfully with drinks in hand.
1) Is "festively-dressed" the best and most natural adjective I could use if I want to describe that the people were dressed for party? Or is "party-dressed" possible?
2) Is "chatting cheerfully" okay or is "cheerfully chatting" better?
Julie entered the room to find about 100 people all decked out in festive attire chatting cheerfully with drinks in hand.
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Julie entered the room to find about 100 people all decked out in festive attire chatting cheerfully with drinks in hand.
anonymousfestively-dressed
Small note: We don't use a hyphen after an adverb that ends in -ly.
festively dressed
CJ