

Awesome Etiquette
The Emily Post Institute
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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May 23, 2022 • 1h 5min
Episode 402 - Many Grads
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 group graduation parties, giving older relatives car rides, speaking another language in a public space, and sharing one family member’s news with the rest of the family. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about paying to replace something you didn’t break. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on the history of etiquette books.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 16, 2022 • 1h 7min
Episode 401 - Editing 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 gifts at gender reveal parties, answering questions about having a baby in a same sex relationship, etiquette for editors, and graduation announcements and gifts for grads. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about asking for gift cards at weddings. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Garden Parties from Emily Post’s Etiquette the 1922 edition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 9, 2022 • 1h
Episode 400 - Recommended Recognition
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 mishaps with save the dates in the mail, what to do with your winnings at a charity event, awkward office lunchtimes, and thanking people who write letters of recommendation for you. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your question is about telling the host you didn’t attend because you didn’t want to. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Revisiting episode one postscript 'pinkies out'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 2, 2022 • 1h 8min
Episode 399 - Tour 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 tipping overseas tour guides, when it’s appropriate to bring a plus one, drifting apart from friends, and connecting with clients on LinkedIn. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about photo-bombing humor at a wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on defining places at the table from Margaret Visser’s The Rituals of Dinner.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 12min
Episode 398 - Fowl Foul
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 people for contact photos, asking for “no gifts” at your child’s birthday party, a followup to a question about names on a wedding invitation, and some foul fowl. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about not feeling social and how to manage it. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on thank-you notes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 18, 2022 • 50min
Episode 397 - Thinking Forward
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 asked to share the cost of a trip after it’s ended, baby registries and old friends, family members who don’t take care of your cookware, and out of towners asking for tourism advice when they’re visiting for a funeral. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about handshakes after COVID. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on thinking forward.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 11, 2022 • 57min
Episode 396 - Oh Napkins
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 letting people “sneak” behind you into secured areas, conveying race through emojis, text message thank yous, and napkin etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about talking to your partner about their table manners. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Gilded age etiquette from Mary Sherwood who would have been Emily’s etiquette advisor .See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 7min
Episode 395 - A Wedding Off
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 acknowledging who is paying for the wedding on the invitation, whether or not RSVPs are a thing of the past,new houses that are full of stuff from previous residents, and a sample script for a canceled wedding. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question is about if spouses should always be invited too. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on serving butter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 28, 2022 • 1h 14min
Episode 394 - Profanity Please
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 tipping when service is sub par, which side of the table to sit on when meeting someone new, answering questions about no longer drinking alcohol, and how to handle encouraged profranity at work. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about dealing with a pushy landlord. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on Emily writing the 1922 edition of etiquetteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 21, 2022 • 1h 4min
Episode 393 - We Don't Talk About...
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 calling a newly wed by her new last name, how to have conversations about genealogy without bragging, addressing families with multiple names as well as address parents vs babies, and a question about bringing your baby to a baby shower. For Awesome Etiquette Sustaining members our question of the week is about how to be a friend not a customer when friends are involved in Multi-Level marketing. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript on family gossip and Bruno-no-no-no. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


