Awesome Etiquette
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 12, 2025 • 55 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on issues with a group text RSVP, how to end a sympathy card, and table setting tips when you’re serving special courses. For community members, your question of the week is about people wearing mantillas at the Pope’s funeral. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on Jane Austen etiquette
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May 5, 2025 • 51 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether to host a party for a college grad, confusion over a very casual wedding, and etiquette around prescription sunglasses. For community members, your question of the week is about what to do when your mother-in-law invites extra guests to your wedding. Plus, your weekly challenge, an etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on graduation announcements.
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April 28, 2025 • 69 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whose name goes first on a wedding shower invitation, what to wear to a wedding in the morning and evening, and where to put your knife when eating from a bistro bowl. For community members, your question of the week is about hosting an inclusive cotillion. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where I interview our featured trainer, Christel Georges.
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April 21, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on eating from a bread bowl…yum, tipping at an all-inclusive resort, and how to address members of Congress in a letter. For community members, your question of the week is about an issue with Zoom meeting invitations. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript on attire from Emily’s 1999 edition of Etiquette.
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April 14, 2025 • 71 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on sitting in a salon when you’re not the customer, being asked to help host a bridal shower, and how to eat olives. For community members, your question of the week is about gifting for a double birthday party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we hear more from second graders about etiquette.
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April 7, 2025 • 58 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on who pays when a casual but meaningful lunch is scheduled, how many times you should say bless you when someone sneezes a lot, and how to manage the social dynamics of birthday party guest lists. For community members, your question of the week is about deviled eggs, how to serve them, and how to eat them. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we hear ...
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March 31, 2025 • 46 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on meeting the parents after being in touch virtually for years, paying for a signature cocktail at a wedding, and addressing an envelope to an entire organization. For community members, we have a question about how many times is too many times to borrow something. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.
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March 24, 2025 • 53 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on bringing flowers to a book launch, using china at a wedding dinner, and only attending the visitation at a funeral. For community members, a question about whether to say thank you when you’ve received flowers from a secret admirer and figure out who the admirer is. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on manners and principles.
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March 17, 2025 • 50 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on licking fingers when eating ribs, one year old birthday party thank you notes, and electronic bridal shower invitations. For community members, your bonus question is about putting no gifts on a graduation announcement. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.
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March 10, 2025 • 60 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on hosting a bridal shower when everyone is out of town, a classic question on knife placement when setting a table, and how to break up with a cleaning person. For community members, a question about a kids birthday party gifting dilemma. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on etiquette as community service.
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March 3, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on hosting a housewarming party, whether you can skip the baby shower and join the men, bread plate placement when setting a table. For community members, today we have a question about flying flags at half mast. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment concluding our investigation of handshakes.
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February 24, 2025 • 77 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on whether to initiate a handshake, walking your leashed dog around other unleashed dogs, what to write on office condolence cards. For community members, we have a question about tipping wedding vendors. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we introduce you to our featured trainer Dr. Veronica Guinn.
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February 17, 2025 • 61 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on when your friends’ ticket tastes are too expensive, a coworker who always wants you to pay for lunch, and what to do when you have conflicting plans. For community members, your bonus is an etiquette geekery question about continental dining. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a feedback postscript segment.
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February 10, 2025 • 49 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on gifts for a second wedding, compliments on losing weight, water bottles in the workplace. For community members, we have a question about the difference between excuse me and pardon me. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a classic table setting postscript segment.
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February 3, 2025 • 71 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on tipping for pharmacy deliveries, wedding invitation timing, and when extra people join an invitation given as a holiday gift. For community members, we have a question about speaking multiple languages at the playground. Plus, your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment where we revisit the themes of consideration, respect, and honesty and look at how they work togeth...
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January 27, 2025 • 65 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how long you can say Happy New Year for, an optional–or not optional?--wedding dress code, and how to handle mealtime meltdowns with grandchildren. For community members, we have a question about setting a table for a nonalcoholic dinner party and a desserts only party. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on our founding principle of honesty.
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January 20, 2025 • 61 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on where to place drinks at a formal dinner party, whether to pay the way for a child’s friend on vacation, and how to plan a family reunion at a resort. For community members, we have a question about hosting when you’ve just welcomed a new baby. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on a founding principle of good etiquette - respect.
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January 13, 2025 • 59 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a casual party dress code, discussing politics over the holidays, and how to handle holiday cards when your family has multiple last names. For community members, we have a question about a restaurant blunder on a small town scene. Plus, your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and postscript segment where we consider consideration.
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January 6, 2025 • 52 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on how to check on whether someone is hosting their annual holiday dinner, whether partners are invited to couples' baby showers, and thank you notes for the money left in a funeral donation box. For community members, we have a more personal question about Post family gatherings. Plus, your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on, you guessed it, thank-you notes.
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December 30, 2024 • 61 mins
On today’s show, we take your questions on a growling family dog and a scared guest, sharing pregnancy news with someone who had a miscarriage, and when people don’t acknowledge holiday gifts. For community members, we have a few questions about holiday cards. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a Feedback postscript segment where we hear from you.
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