On today’s show, we take your questions on addressing noise at the library, what to do with a wedding announcement, whether or not to tell someone you exchanged their gift, and how to get out of being called dear. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our bonus question is about making plans with friends. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the essential nature of etiquette advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on teaching kids manners in public, handling homemade gifts, hosting gifts for team dinners, and getting a gift but not being able to return the favor. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about strangers sleeping on you on the plane. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the practice and meaning of holding doors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on writing a second letter when you haven’t gotten a response to the last one, planning a post-wedding gathering for family, commenting on YouTube videos, and hosts with less-than-sanitary serving methods. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about waiting behind someone to take their parking spot in busy cities. Plus...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 12 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on forgetting to bring a host gift, bearing feet as a host, handling unwrapped gifts sent straight to you, and sitting or standing during a greeting when there’s an age gap. Our bonus question for Awesome Etiquette Community Members is about quick passing conversations in office hallways. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on gloves and napkins from the 1922 edition of etiquette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Happy New Year! Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on asking a parent’s permission to marry someone over Facetime, modern hugging etiquette, signing greeting cards as a married couple, and giving holiday cards to coworkers. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about eating hamburgers. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscri...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on returning containers empty, asking both sides of the family to speak at a wedding, moving furniture for contractors, and holiday party hand washing hygiene. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about seeing a difficult coworker outside work. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on thank you notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Welcome Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on brushing your teeth at the office, opening gifts from clients in front of them, someone asking to see your wound, and friends who always want you to come see them. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about keeping the toilet lid shut to contain germs. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscrip...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 4 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on listing your degrees in your email signature, conversations interrupted by kids, being honest yet polite, and people who repeatedly mispronounce your name. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question of the week is about responding when being teased in front of others. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Holiday Tipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on sending out cards without asking for an address, quickly replying ‘no’ to an invitation, hosting your own birthday, and when to not open gifts at the party. For Emily Post Substack subscribers our bonus question of the week is about sitting properly in a restaurant booth. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Gift Giving and Re-Gifting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on using a two-handled soup bowl, keeping the holidays phone-free, arriving late to a holiday dinner, and being unsure if someone got your wedding gift. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about not inviting someone to a holiday this year who has been invited in years past. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette ...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on having multiple hosts for Thanksgiving, e-invites for children's birthday parties, maintaining old friendships, and setting plates directly on the table. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about well meaning intrusive comments. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on conversation. L...
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on turning a Bunco party into a birthday party, keeping up old friendships, having your baby shower in your own home, and bringing dishes to holiday meals. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members your question is about side conversations at small dinners. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the future ...
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 8 min
On today’s show, we take your questions on being asked how much something costs, the order of co-chairs on an invitation, managing a difficult family situation, and thanking someone for attending your wedding. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about agreeing to host something once, but not every year. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on being a great guest of honor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on conversation poachers, large parties with no split checks, setting boundaries with family members, and waiting for machines at the gym. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about riding in an Uber where the driver makes an illegal turn. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on, "BOO!",...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on not wanting others to feel rushed at the dinner table, wearing flip flops at the office, feeding out-of-town guests at the rehearsal dinner, and where to dry your hands at someone else’s house. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is a followup to a question about tipping with gift cards. Plus your most excellent feedba...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 11 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on invitations for multiple generations in one household, why it’s a good idea to open gifts at a shower, changing traditions in answering the phone and whose name goes first in an obituary. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about getting called out for napkin use. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute,...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on difficult mother-daughter relationships, doctor titles on wedding invitations, whether or not to invite the pastor to a small intimate wedding reception, and what’s the deal with registering for things. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about family members who don’t acknowledge others’ accomplishments. Plus your ...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on riding in the car with a female superior, finding out someone’s engagement was canceled, trying to plan a less-chaotic extended family Christmas, and serving wedge-shaped food. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about being kicked out of a wedding for no reason. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, ...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show, we take your questions on people who ask you to send their thanks along to someone else, not having a receiving line at the wedding, whether or not to invite a friend who is bothering the bride to a wedding, and how to handle a charity birthday present request for a kids’ birthday. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question of the week is about a very...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on gifts for weddings and vow renewals, making sure someone got your card, the expenses that come with destination weddings, and tipping for rehearsal dinner venues. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about guests not showing appreciation for their host. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscr...
Sep 18, 2023•54 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on RSVPing with an asterisk, walkers entering your private yard, the rules for wearing white at a wedding, and thank you notes in other countries. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members our question is about visitors using your house as a “crash pad” rather than coming to spend time with you. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette s...
Sep 11, 2023•59 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on graduation announcements, an out of state over-think for a bridal shower, talking sports at work, and adult children who just want to celebrate their parent’s 50th anniversary darnit! For Awesome Etiquette Community members, our question of the week explores how hosts make decisions about sleeping arrangements for house-guests. Plus you...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on etiquette when on planes, more etiquette for plane travel, not saying "sorry", and addressing a Dr. as part of a married couple. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about getting to know neighbors in a quiet community. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on registries throughout Emily...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on hyphenating names on cards, paying for the plate you didn’t eat at a wedding reception, tipping when you paid with a gift card, and sending a sympathy card late. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about letting someone know their hair is out of place before taking a photo. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquett...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on a colorful wedding dress code, birthday parties at places that charge for extra guests, tipping for an at-home service rather than one at a salon, and teaching consent early. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about attending a birthday party when you can’t afford a gift. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am,’ requesting certain foods at other people’s houses, avoiding people you have a romantic interest in, and telling someone ‘this isn’t a date.’ For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about showing appreciation for your partner. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript fr...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 8 min
On today’s show we take your questions on sending gifts ahead of the bridal shower, someone who doesn’t listen to voicemails, rehearsal dinner meal preferences, and serving the right amount of small talk. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about a mystery bowl at dinner. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript interview with Elizabeth H. Cottrell Author of HeartSpoken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on hosting trouble with traditional gender roles, handling invitations when you’re overseas and grieving, a short question about being a new grandparent and how to handle family names on a wedding invitation envelope. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about a moment of awkwardness around an up in the air wedding invit...
Jul 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on bringing gifts to birthday dinners, navigating a wedding invite when the date has been posted online already, what to do when someone constantly interrupts you with questions, and avoiding neighborhood gossip. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about winning gracefully. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette s...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on feeling excluded from conversations, service charges at restaurants, RSVPing for a wedding before getting a formal invite, and declining to give tours of your home. For Awesome Etiquette community members your question is about asking your coworkers not to play explicit songs. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a po...
Jul 10, 2023•1 hr 22 min
