Awesome Etiquette The Emily Post Institute
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- Society & Culture
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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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Episode 497 - Etiquette Fails
On today’s show, we take your questions on a camping birthday bash, sympathy cards in lieu of funeral attendance, when to begin at a banquet, and how to handle plus-ones for wedding invitations. For Awesome Etiquette community members, your question of the week is about a gift card wedding shower. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on our most memorable etiquette fails.
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Episode 496 - Registered
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to handle a thank you and condolence card, setting hosting boundaries with your social spouse, navigating a very awkward situation with a coworker, and how to handle sympathy you’ve received when there’s no contact information to acknowledge it. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, your question of the week is about needing to deflect well-meaning conversations about hard times. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a wedding-themed postscript on setting up registries.
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Episode 495 - Dinner Plate Decisions
On today’s show, we take your questions on classroom party participation, a meet the surrogate party, dinner plate decisions, and how to address a patient when calling from a doctor’s office. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, your question is about how to handle gifts for a joint sibling birthday party where you only know one sibling. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on Top Table Manners for Kids.
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Episode 494 - Emily Post Postscript
On today’s show, we take your questions on hosting gifts, a puzzling wedding invitation, the good reason to ghost, and how to handle one menu for four people. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question concerns condolences for a miscarriage. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on the life of Emily Post by Emily Post.
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Episode 493 - Copy Edit Curse
On today’s show, we take your questions on getting everyone involved at a wedding, the curse of the copy edit, sending acknowledgments to condolences, and a guest of honor who doesn’t want to participate. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about non-invitation invitations. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on eating bread and soup.
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Episode 492 - Reluctant Host
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether or not to host a bachelorette party after the wedding, stealing a thank you, some misguided guest requests, and how to handle feeling unwelcome with extended family. For Awesome Etiquette Community Members, our question is about season tickets when you have guests in town. Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on keeping your mouth shut while eating from Margaret Vissers, the rituals of dinner.
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Customer Reviews
A little out of touch
I enjoy listening each week, but often feel that the advice can be out of touch. I get it — we’re keeping the tradition of Emily Post alive — and yet I think it’s also important that we consider how things need to evolve and change over time. I often find the conversations about weddings to be really difficult to listen to. I come from a middle class family and, while my parents generously contributed what they could, it was extremely difficult to put a “traditional” wedding together within our budget (much less pull out all the stops to ensure we covered all our etiquette bases). Ultimately we invited 18 guests and that was that. Lizzie and Dan — weddings really ARE about the couple getting married. Weddings are about the love two people share and the commitment they are making. I believe that guests should feel grateful to be invited to witness and, if they can’t graciously attend and appreciate what the couple has put together, simply decline. It’s okay if there’s not a receiving line. It’s okay if the menu is pizza and beer (sounds awesome, actually). Let’s get rid of etiquette that is elitist and exclusive. My wish is that certain components of etiquette and advice can evolve to be more accessible to all, regardless of financial circumstance.
Response to “A Little Out of Touch”
As a woman, who has been married for 42 years, and was raised by a single parent with 6 children, I appreciate your response to rating this podcast…specifically about planning/hosting weddings. Good manners and social etiquette is not just for the elite. I agree the emphasis should be more about planning the marriage and not the wedding. One can plan a simple wedding without breaking the bank. I wish you many years of happiness and grace to get you through tough times. God bless!
Truly Awesome
Awesome Etiquette is definitely one of my favorite podcasts and has been for several years. Lizzie and Dan are lovely individuals with two very different but complementary personalities. There are rare moments I find myself disagreeing with a stance they take or advice they dispense—but the moments are so rare that I can count them on one hand in the span of the 300+ episodes I have listened to. Their advice is intelligent, practical, thoughtful, and as timeless as etiquette advice can be. I feel a warmth in each episode, and I truly love hearing their voices. There is a sense of community without things getting too noisy. I have learned so much from their work and content. The basis of respect, consideration, and honesty changed my life, and not in a gimmicky way but in a lasting and meaningful way. I’m a Post fan for life!