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 questions on gifting diamonds, overhearing racist comments,

and ignoring people in the elevator. For community members, your question of the week is about

hosting your very first tea party. Plus, your weekly etiquette challenge, salute, and a

postcript on afternoon tea from Emily's 1922 edition.

All that's coming up.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is proudly produced by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Dan Post Sending.

And I'm Lizzie Post, because I feel so incredibly in the

world of weddings right now. Nice. What's going on in the world of weddings? It's like we've got the

book going on, so I'm also connecting with some of the wedding planners that I've been, you know,

interviewing and having help out with some of the advice in the book. And one of them has been on

this show, Cassie Lemire, and she showed me, and it's on her Instagram real. So you can check

it out, audience, Cassie Lamar events on Instagram. But it's a save the date and it comes as like a package or a box, like a gift, basically,

instead of like just a little postcard or something like that.

But like the vast majority of us all do that version of a save the date.

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