Awesome Etiquette
Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette with advice based on consideration, respect, and honesty. Like their great-great-grandmother, Emily Post, Lizzie and Dan look for the reasons behinds the traditional rules to guide their search for the correct behavior in all kinds of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.
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Episode #187: A Stepmom's Step One: The Wedding
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on keeping communications simple, dealing with favors you don’t like, helping kids combat shyness, flying first class when senior business colleagues aren’t, and whether or not to invite your future stepson’s mother to your wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on gift giving
55 min
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Episode #186: A Shrimpy Situation
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on rejecting kind offers, how to handle first and middle names on a wedding invitation, Aafollow up question from episode 182 on belated 2nd receptions, how to handle in lieu of gifts for an 80th birthday, and a very jumbo shrimpy problem. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Emma Seppala and happiness.
47 min
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Episode #185: Honorifics and Chivalry
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on pictures of engagement rings, community dinner displeasures, honoring honorifics, yoga class guests, and elevator and door chivalry at work. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on breaking up.
57 min
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Episode #184: Weekend Woes
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on knives as pushers, questions about homeschooling, which job am I interviewing for, no wedding reply card and ski weekend woes. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on serving wine.
56 min
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Episode #183: Dish Me The Info!
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on babies and weddings all at once, a roommate who thinks your kitchen ware is hers, a manager who dumps a problem back on your plate, asking folks for addresses in the digital age, and how to get your bridesmaids to choose modest dresses. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on 24/7 Etiquette.
55 min
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Episode #182: Slippery Situations
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on 2nd wedding receptions, soap being swiped from the ladies rest room, offering guests your master bedroom, attending only one of two baby showers, and how much repsonisiblity is on a host to manage ground transportation for guests. Plus, your most excellent feedback, two etiquette salutes and a postscript segment on HUGGING!
58 min
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Episode # 181: Is It The Right Response?
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on keto dietary restrictions, thanking folks when travel makes it hard, declining a boss’s casual lunch invite, a wedding guest who is frustrated by a bride’s response, and how not be an answering service for your spouse. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on etiquette for social dances of all kinds.
49 min
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Episode #180: Is it Boasting or not?
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on not being the office therapist, when you have too many people to invite to your birthday, who pencils who in when scheduling, and is it boasting or not. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Dancing and Balls...like fancy ones.
55 min
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Episode # 179: These Gifts, Please!
On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on getting the gifts you want at a shower, saying thanks for a thank you gift, what to do with too many bridal shower offers, and how to handle the age old question about age. Plus your most excellent feedback, some of which comes from Puja Senning, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Emily Post’s How To Behave Though A Debutante.
50 min
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Episode #178: Thanks, But No Thanks!
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions about tiny tummies and hosts that notice them, condolences and contributions to funerals, a very special question from the hosts of the Home Hour Podcast and how to handle gifts when boundaries have been broken. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on replying to formal invitations.
47 min
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Episode #177: Surprise We're Married!
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on wedding announcements, managing messaging apps at work, whether or not to write a thank-you note to your SO’s family, how to handle naming a 6th, wedding regrets and finally a very special question. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on meeting etiquette.
49 min
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Episode #176: Welcome Puja
On today’s show Dan and Puja take your etiquette questions on managing multiple birthdays, hand delivering cards, hosting guests with allergies and apologizing for the first mistake. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on the meaning of Etiquette.
37 min
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Episode #175: The Party's Over
Dan and guest host Cindy Post Senning take your questions on wrapping up a party, lending a hand without giving offense, sending condolences during the holidays and how clean to keep a home. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins continued.
45 min
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Episode #174: RSVP Fails
We take your etiquette questions on groomsmen expenses, reclining seat backs, bringing wine when you’re already bringing wine and electronic RSVP fails. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins from Margaret Visser's The Rituals of Dinner.
40 min
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Episode#173: Happy New Year
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions about not getting together with sick friends, a doozy of social awkwardness, travel for bridesmaids and what to do with serious dietary restrictions and food related work events. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Kelly Williams Brown’s Book Gracious.
45 min
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Episode #172: Merry Christmas
Happy holidays from all of us at The Emily Post Institute. We answer your etiquette questions, hear your most excellent feedback, share an etiquette salute and offer a postscript segment on keeping holidays personal.
47 min
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Episode #171: Primetime Predicaments
On today’s show we take your questions about primetime predicaments, commenting on other’s food, Christmas parties with co-workers, "No Boxed Gifts" and how to handle missing a marriage announcement by 8 years. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on regifting and thank yous.
56 min
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Episode #170: Booing The Refs
We take your questions about junior vs. Jr., standing up for greetings once you’re an adult, booing the refs, reluctant hosts and how to address holiday cards to families with multiple names. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on gifting well.
42 min
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Episode #169: Please, Shhhhhhh
On today’s we take your questions about long hallway hellos, how a caregiver can speak up, what to call a widow, sample language for a college student who wants to meditate and season ticket holders who want others to shhhhhh. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on holiday cards.
45 min
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EP #168: The Houseguest & The Hedgehog
We take your etiquette questions about gifts with the wrong monogram, gifts of gratitude, friends with champagne tastes who complain, and a question about apps - the kind you eat. Your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment where we catch up with you on Thanksgiving!
51 min
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Episode #167: Happy Thanksgiving!
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions about invitation trepidation, what’s a lemon-hater to do?, changing gift traditions and post wedding blues. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Thanksgiving week etiquette prep!
51 min
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Episode #166: No Drama
We take your questions on being an unexpected host via video, honoring wedding co-hosts, handling drama when you’re not dramatic, and "dude, where’s my car?" Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on 'How to Bungle a Dinner' Party from the 1922 edition of Etiquette.
45 min
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Episode #165: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Styli...
We take your questions on breaking up with your hair stylist, setting boundaries during the grieving process, ending evenings out with friends, and bringing up your budget when RSVPing. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on 'How to Bungle a Dinner Party’.
42 min
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Episode #164: Take Home Scotch
We answer your questions on guests inviting extra guests, how to bring good scotch to a party and get to bring some home, baby gender-reveal parties, and a classic about wedding gift obligations. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on HALLLLOOOWEEEEEEEN.
43 min
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Episode #163: When Favors Become Expected
Dan and Lizzie answer questions about not eating when others do, invitation woes, extending a favor and dressing up for Grandma. Plus we hear your feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Emily Post's birthday.
43 min