The Emily Post Institute
Awesome Etiquette
Hosts Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning answer audience questions about modern etiquette, offering advice grounded in consideration, respect, and honesty. As the great-great-grandchildren of Emily Post, cousins Dan and Lizzie look to the reasons behind traditional rules to guide their advice in a wide range of contemporary situations. Test your social acumen and join the discussion about civility and decency in today's complex world.
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Jul 6, 2026
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Episodes
Episode #193: Wedding Attire Color Codes? 21.05.2018 56:58
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on wedding attire color codes, thanking hospice workers, tech rules at the table at home and out to eat, when to include sentiment in a wedding ceremony, and should shower hosts give gifts? Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on Chivalry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn...
Episode #192: Name Games 14.05.2018 54:32
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on how to eat strawberries, whether or not to help when you overhear a problem at work, when you almost have the name of someone famous, and a wonderfully modern question about receiving other people’s emails. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on baby shower thank you notes. See omnystudio.com/l...
Episode #191: Civility for Servers Please 07.05.2018 55:09
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on being served raw food, having to ask to get called Dr., offering condolences when the recipient might not remember you, ordering politely and pet free friend visits. Plus your feedback, etiquette salute and a post script segment on preparations when your wedding is 1-3 months away. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Episode #190: Bowl Trends 30.04.2018 1:06:14
Our apologies for the delay on this episode. There was glitch in our publishing program and we are happy that it is resolved. Please, enjoy! On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on dining in bowls, being unnamed on a wedding invitation, personal favors and professional requests, generous hosts serving generous guests, and family who make decisions for you. Plus your most e...
Episode #189: Stay off my lawn 23.04.2018 1:03:54
On today’s show, Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on bridesmaids and bachelorette parties, children playing on your lawn, potlucks that don’t specify on the invitation, not noisy neighbors being blamed for noise and how to answer repeated questions about adoption. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment notching up your business skills. See omnystu...
Episode #188: It's Two Thirty O'clock! 16.04.2018 53:30
On today’s show, Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions on two finger food questions, is two thirty o'clock a thing?, zits at the dinner table, party guests not paying attention to invitations and gifts that you don’t really like from someone you really love. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on an Emily Post’s theory about the Bank of Life. See om...
Episode #187: A Stepmom's Step One: The Wedding 09.04.2018 1:01:21
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...
Episode #186: A Shrimpy Situation 02.04.2018 53:30
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. S...
Episode #185: Honorifics and Chivalry 26.03.2018 1:03:23
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 megaphon...
Episode #184: Weekend Woes 19.03.2018 1:02:37
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...
Episode #183: Dish Me The Info! 12.03.2018 1:01:30
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...
Episode #182: Slippery Situations 05.03.2018 1:04:39
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 o...
Episode # 181: Is It The Right Response? 26.02.2018 55:37
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 omn...
Episode #180: Is it Boasting or not? 19.02.2018 1:00:49
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 ab...
Episode # 179: These Gifts, Please! 12.02.2018 55:59
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 Debut...
Episode #178: Thanks, But No Thanks! 05.02.2018 53:03
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/listene...
Episode #177: Surprise We're Married! 29.01.2018 55:02
On today’s show we take your etiquette questions on wedding announcements, managing messaging apps at work, whether or not to write a thank-you note to your SO’s family, how to handle naming a 6th, wedding regrets and finally a very special question. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on meeting etiquette. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...
Episode #176: Welcome Puja 22.01.2018 43:41
On today’s show Dan and Puja take your etiquette questions on managing multiple birthdays, hand delivering cards, hosting guests with allergies and apologizing for the first mistake. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on the meaning of Etiquette. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
Episode #175: The Party's Over 15.01.2018 51:30
On today’s show Dan and guest host Cindy Post Senning take your etiquette questions on wrapping up a party, lending a hand without giving offense, sending condolences during the holidays and how clean to keep a home. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins continued. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choice...
Episode #174: RSVP Fails 08.01.2018 46:29
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions on groomsmen expenses, reclining seat backs, bringing wine when you’re already bringing wine and electronic RSVP fails. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on napkins from Margaret Visser's The Rituals of Dinner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices...
Episode#173: Happy New Year 01.01.2018 50:47
On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions about not getting together with sick friends, a doozy of social awkwardness, travel for bridesmaids and what to do with serious dietary restrictions and food related work events. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment from Kelly Williams Brown’s book Gracious. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
Episode #172: Merry Christmas 25.12.2017 53:09
Happy holidays from everyone at The Emily Post Institute. On today’s show we take your etiquette questions about medical TMI, haggling etiquette, where to send a thank you gift, how to handle New Years invites when friends aren’t all invited to the same party, gift return guilt and how to not manage your boss’s holiday party budget. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscr...
Episode #171: Primetime Predicaments 18.12.2017 1:02:00
Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions about prime time predicaments, commenting on other’s food, Christmas parties with co-workers (or not), the meaning of "No Boxed Gifts" and how to handle missing a marriage announcement...by 8 years. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on regifting and thank-you notes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
Episode #170: Booing The Refs 11.12.2017 48:07
Lizzie and Dan take your etiquette questions about junior vs. Jr., standing up for greetings once you’re an adult, booing the refs, reluctant hosts, and how to address holiday cards to families with multiple names. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on gifting well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Episode #169: Please, Shhhhhhh 04.12.2017 50:47
On today’s show Dan and Lizzie take your etiquette questions about long hallway hellos, how a caregiver can speak up, what to call a widow, sample language for a college student who wants to meditate and season ticket holders who want others to shhhhhh. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript segment on holiday cards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...
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