

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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Jun 18, 2018 • 59min
Episode #197: Pool Party
Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions about tablet tipping for counter service, a reflection on the shortest date ever, how to recover from assuming someone has a child when they don't, and new pool owners wanting to know how to pool host. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Lizzie Post's Great Get-Togethers on sharing meals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 11, 2018 • 55min
Episode #196: Essential Oil Invasion
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions about Mom’s love for diffusing essential oils when visiting, the deal with graduation invitations and announcements and gifts, a chivalrous act of ordering for your partner reexamined, and learning to navigate and hopefully avoid the drama at a new job. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on the ending of a dinner party.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 4, 2018 • 1h 3min
Episode #195: On Maple Syrup
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions about attending a party for an honoree when you had a falling out with the hosts, gifts and registries for elopements, how to leave a living situation well and we’re resurrecting a classic on how to speak up when friends want to split the check, but you didn’t order as much as they did. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Vermont Maple Syrup etiquette inspired by a recent parody in the publication the Onion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 29, 2018 • 1h 3min
Episode #194: Let me Tell You How
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on radios in Ubers, how to handle talking with friends about your partner, dealing with gifts you can’t bring home, joining a family whose language of love is instruction and gifts for master's degree graduates. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on being quiet at the movies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 21, 2018 • 57min
Episode #193: Wedding Attire Color Codes?
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on wedding attire color codes, thanking hospice workers, tech rules at the table at home and out to eat, when to include sentiment in a wedding ceremony, and should shower hosts give gifts? Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Chivalry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 14, 2018 • 55min
Episode #192: Name Games
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on how to eat strawberries, whether or not to help when you overhear a problem at work, when you almost have the name of someone famous, and a wonderfully modern question about receiving other people’s emails. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on baby shower thank you notes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 7, 2018 • 55min
Episode #191: Civility for Servers Please
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on being served raw food, having to ask to get called Dr., offering condolences when the recipient might not remember you, ordering politely and pet free friend visits. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a post script segment on preparations when your wedding is 1-3 months away.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 30, 2018 • 1h 6min
Episode #190: Bowl Trends
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On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on dining in bowls, being unnamed on a wedding invitation, personal favors and professional requests, generous hosts serving generous guests, and family who make decisions for you. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on travel tipping.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 4min
Episode #189: Stay off my lawn
On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on bridesmaids and bachelorette parties, children playing on your lawn, potlucks that don’t specify on the invitation, not noisy neighbors being blamed for noise and how to answer repeated questions about adoption. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment notching up your business skills. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 16, 2018 • 54min
Episode #188: It's Two Thirty O'clock!
On today’s show, Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on two finger food questions, is two thirty o'clock a thing?, zits at the dinner table, party guests not paying attention to invitations and gifts that you don’t really like from someone you really love. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on an Emily Post’s theory about the Bank of Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices