Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and Dan Post Senate act as host and hostess.

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person,

real friendliness. Hello. And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette

through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today's show, we take your etiquette

questions about accepting compliments about your dog, how to act as the new neighbor, wedding guests wanting to bring their own guests, and whether or not to give a wedding gift when you've contributed your skill to the wedding.

Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and part two of our two-part post-script segment on the myth of how Emily's book etiquette came to be.

For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members, your extra question of the week is about not assuming you're on the B list for a wedding.

Sustaining members can listen to your ads-free version of the show with its extra question by downloading it at awesome etiquette.emilypost.com.

All that's coming up.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of Vermont Public Radio and is proud to be produced

in Burlington, Vermont by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post Sending.

And it's almost the fourth of, not really, it's not really almost the Fourth of July.

But by the time the show comes out, it will almost be the Fourth of July.

It's after the solstice.

So we're in the window between solstice and Fourth of July.

So it feels like the next thing coming is the Fourth of July.

I dig it.

And by the time this show lands, it will be almost the Fourth of July.

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