

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 26, 2017 • 1h 3min
Episode #146: Listen please
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan tackle your etiquette questions on in lieu of flowers requests, communicating about Celiac disease to new friends, how to handle food stealing spouses and inviting your hair stylist to your wedding. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on listening skills.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 2017 • 51min
Episode #145: Share and Share Alike
Lizzie and Dan tackle your etiquette questions about family only vacations, the use of MBA in a title, divvying up the pastry box at work, and how to tell your sister her house smells. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a Postscript segment on exiting a party from 'The Rituals of Dinner' by MargSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 12, 2017 • 57min
Episode 144: Gentleman First???
Dan and Lizzie answer your etiquette questions on whose name comes first when signing your wedding thank-you notes, upping the ante on cat sitter thank yous, and what to do about dinner guest no-shows. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute for the week and a Postscript segment on family gatherings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 5, 2017 • 52min
Episode #143: Good to be home!
Dan is back! And he's jumped right back in helping Lizzie answer your questions on bike shares, skipping a wedding reception, no gifts (but college fund contributions please) for a first birthday, and doggie bag dilemmas. Plus feedback from Paris on restaurant reservation time slots, your etiquette salute for the week and a postscript segment on Children’s Visiting Cards, from the 1942 edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 29, 2017 • 51min
Episode #142: The Bride's Week or My Vacation?
Uncle Bill is back again, co-hosting with Lizzie while Dan is away. The two answer questions about reimbursement for season tickets, whether or not to respond to sales emails, how to balance time with the bride and friends during a wedding week trip, how to handle reactions from coworkers when you announce that you’re leaving your job, your feedback, etiquette salute and a post script segment on traveling with other people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 22, 2017 • 1h 1min
Episode #141: Yay Dad!
Peter Post joins his daughter Lizzie to co-host this week's episode while Dan's away. The two answer questions on how to reciprocate as a guest for a special occasion, what to do when your friends invite themselves over and bring their children to adult only parties, what to offer after dinner, regular or decaf coffee, a teen asks about offering sympathy, and what to do with pits. All that plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a post script segment on the power of surprises from Peter Post's book Essential Manners for Couples.
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May 15, 2017 • 54min
Episode #140: Wee Ones At Weddings
Bill Post returns to co-host with Lizzie while Dan is away and the two talk about behavior at little league games, rehearsal dinner invitations, wee ones wailing at weddings, being a good graduation weekend guest, and potluck problems, plus we’ve got your feedback, etiquette salute for the week and a postscript segment on planning a wedding reception seating chart!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 8, 2017 • 44min
Episode #139: Send a Telegram
Bill Post co-hosts with Lizzie while Dan is away. Bill and Lizzie cover questions on Community Dinner Contributions, Group Houseguest Gifts, Email Introductions and Retirement Party Gifts. Plus your feedback, two etiquette salutes and a postscript segment on Being a Good Guest straight from Emily Post's 1922 edition. Spoiler Alert: Mosquitos are invovled.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 1, 2017 • 1h 11min
Episode #138: Welcome To The Show Puja!
Dan and Lizzie take your questions on contractors and quotes, putting registry info on an evite to a second reception, sending gifts late, and a primer on roommates plus your feedback on wedding showers, your etiquette salute for the week and a postscript segment where we meet Puja Senning and talk with Puj and Dan about managing expectations and what works around the birth of a baby!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 24, 2017 • 1h
Episode #137: Fore!
Fore! Dan and Lizzie get ready to hit the links in this week's postscript, but first they take on your etiquette questions regarding doodling at work, the annual "wearing white" to weddings question, how to greet clients in groups, and how do you know when a dinner party is done? All that plus your feedback including a follow up from Jimmy on the coughing storm at work, etiquette salute and a golf etiquette postscript inspired by the book: The Unwritten Rules of Golf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices