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You may be reassured to consider how well this advice reflects the following passage. I am informed that 'Miss Manners is the queen of Etiquette herself' and this is from Miss Manners'… (View Post)

The bad news: you still do not have a role of authority over your aunts and uncles. Your role is one of hospitality -- considering their needs, thinking of their comfort before your own, honouring t… (View Post)

Good manners are the same whether you are having a rehearsal dinner, or a wedding dinner, or a just-because dinner. What you have described: offering food and drink at your own expense, followed by … (View Post)

I would never give a party with a cash bar. But then, I am an overly-confident, experienced, relatively well-to-do old hostess entertaining in a social circle where cocktails are not all that popular… (View Post)

This actually sounds lovely -- presence and support are far more to be valued than tea-towels and potato peelers, although one certainly needs those things as well :-). I have noticed that the meani… (View Post)