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 from The Cost of Bad Behavior.

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

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 invitation. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on parenting don’ts from Emily Post’s 1940s parent book Children are People.

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 salute and a postscript on lending a hand. All that's coming up!

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 our question is about asking your coworkers not to play explicit songs. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Emily's wedding day.

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 responding to people who disrespect your religious beliefs, bosses who text you after hours, changing the subject during uncomfortable conversations, and a wedding invite that leaves out important information. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about dating in real life instead of finding people on apps. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on clam bakes and BBQ's.

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 funeral invites, asking wedding guests to help with the honeymoon instead of giving gifts, tipping for a bottle of wine, and balancing honesty and consideration in casual conversations. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about slowing down a relationship. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on hosting tips.

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 treats for staff members being shared with their kids,thank you notes for meal trains, invites sent in batches, and a renter who talks… a little too much. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about the term “junior” after the senior has passed on. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on sharing food.

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 being a better texter, correcting a friend’s manners, responding to comments about your appearance, and canceling coming to an event where you’re expected to bring the main course. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about leaning the seat back on an airplane. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on using someone’s vacation or second home.

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 inviting families to pool parties, responding to your name being misspelled, suggesting a different restaurant than the one you were invited to, and passive aggressive bosses. For Awesome Etiquette paid subscribers our bonus question is about putting up a new fence with new neighbors. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript from Truly Emily Post.

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 telling people about your new address, giving a gift to the host of a post-wedding brunch, addressing a group as ‘guys,’ and someone who invites themself to a gathering. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about interjecting to correct someone’s coffee order. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on emilys garden

Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On this week’s show we take your questions on inviting someone to a graduation with no celebration afterward, weeds in your neighbor’s yard, baby showers with a lot of hosts, and inviting someone who has just lost a child to a baby shower. For Awesome Etiquette community members our extra question is about inviting spouses to weddings when you’re not close with them. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript pulled from the 1950’s Emily Post cookbook with menu recommendations for entertaining.

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 guests who are gluten-free, asking others what they do for work, inviting almost everyone to a gathering, and tipping for an appliance delivery. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about difficult apologies. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on how we use Consideration, Respect and Honesty to answer etiquette questions.

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 addressing wedding invitations with bad handwriting, talking to others about their childrens’ behavior, buying gifts for an exchange at a reduced price, and breaking the news about someone’s passing. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about bringing someone coffee. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Awesome Etiquette origins.

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 realizing too late that an event is child-free, putting a registry link on the baby shower invite, weeding out who would make a good match on dating apps, and people who take over company meetings. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question of the week is about getting too much ice built up in your water glass after several refills. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on wine with one of our trainers Nisha Travedi.

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 putting the name of someone who has died on a wedding invite, keeping your calendar open, breaking gift-giving traditions, and people commenting on how old or young you look. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about a wedding RSVP dilemma. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on bringing children to restaurants.

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 looking your best at an interview, placing glasses on the table, giving gifts to the host of a bridal shower, and family members who always bring their dog along. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about sending gifts for graduation. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Emily Post and Grief.

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 a kids’ cup at restaurants, sending a wedding gift if you’re not attending, family members who push their politics on you, and waiters bringing out cleaning supplies with your food. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about where to put the date on monogrammed stationery. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on airplane etiquette

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 making small talk with old colleagues, asking for sensitive information when a loved one is dying, what to wear at a funeral, and approaching someone who is copying you. For Awesome Etiquette Community members our question is about inviting last-minute wedding guests. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on etiquette at concerts.

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 overly attentive wait staff, inviting new couples to dinner parties, not feeling like you can ask for help, and salad knives on the table. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about getting cash in condolence cards. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on dining together.

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 comparing restaurants, belated baby showers, changing your last name at work, and paying deposits for reservations. For Awesome Etiquette community members our question is about wording on a wedding program. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on holding a chair for someone.

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 a cocktail to the dinner table, passing by others at a theater, telling a stranger their shirt is inside out, and neighbors letting themselves in. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about calling people Miss, Mrs. or Mr. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript with the second half of our interview with Emily Ladau author of Demystifying Disability, what to know, what to say and how to be an ally.

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 hiring a makeup artist at a gay wedding, getting ready to go through security at the airport, getting a bonus you don’t want, and enjoying what’s on the rim of a cocktail. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about paying the bill when having dinner with your partner’s mother for the first time. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on the first half of our interview with Emily Ladau Author of Demystifying Disability, what to know what to say and how to be an ally.

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 traveling alone, navigating family ties after ending a relationship, wedding thank you notes, and family gatherings that are too much for your partner. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about being child-free. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on tipping.

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 seeing friends when visiting a place you used to live, saying goodbye to coworkers before leaving the office, attending the funeral of your step children's father, and not bringing a gift to a baby shower. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about refusing desserts from well-meaning home bakers. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Balancing The Menu from Emily Post’s 1951 Cookbook