

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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Apr 9, 2018 • 1h 1min
Episode #187: A Stepmom's Step One: The Wedding
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 2, 2018 • 54min
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, a follow 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 26, 2018 • 1h 3min
Episode #185: Honorifics and Chivalry
On today’s show, Lizzie and Dan 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 19, 2018 • 1h 3min
Episode #184: Weekend Woes
On today’s show, we take your etiquette questions on knives as pushers, dealing with questions about homeschooling choices, 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 12, 2018 • 1h 2min
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 kitchenware is theirs, 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 5, 2018 • 1h 5min
Episode #182: Slippery Situations
On today’s show Puja joins Lizzie to 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 responsibility is on a host to manage ground transportation for guests. Plus, your most excellent feedback, two etiquette salutes and a postscript segment on HUGGING!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 26, 2018 • 56min
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 19, 2018 • 1h 1min
Episode #180: Is it Boasting or not?
On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 12, 2018 • 56min
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 5, 2018 • 53min
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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices