Episode 510 - Likely Attendee
Your Awesome Etiquette podcast episode for the week. Plus your weekly etiquette challenge, the Monday joke, and an etiquette extra with your feedback.
On today’s show, we take your questions on handling an unusual food intolerance at work, whether stay-at-home moms and volunteers should have business cards, and whether you can ask potential wedding guests how likely they are to attend…before sending out invitations. For community members, your question of the week is about honoring parental boundaries at a wedding. Plus your etiquette salute, weekly etiquette challenge, and a postscript segment where we hear your feedback on our recent questions.
Etiquette Extra - Emily in the Garden
As Dan and Lizzie take turns recovering in Martha's Vinyard after sending the new business etiquette book to the editor, it feels appropriate to share this classic essay on Emily and her legendary Edgartown garden.
After the publication of Etiquette in 1922, Emily Post quickly became known as a director and authority on the finer points of human interaction. But Emily Post’s role as a cultivator was not limited to the field of social life. The gardens of her Martha’s Vineyard cottage remain today a living testament to her devotion to the value of subtle details,which she demonstrated in her better-known projects on etiquette. As with writing, Emily became deeply and emotionally invested in the process of gardening, her personality and inspiration emerging in the growth of her yard. Gardening was a hobby turned creative endeavor, a process of mourning, a tourist attraction, and above all, a passion that Emily was to pursue for the rest of her life.
TEST YOUR SOCIAL SKILLS With the first-ever Emily Post Mind Your Manners trivia game! Based on the etiquette from Emily Post’s Etiquette, The Centennial edition. Both of these are available signed via Bridgeside Books. Get yours today!
Weekly Etiquette Challenge
We’re in the middle of our Magic Words Challenge, and this week, we’d love to challenge you to use ‘Excuse Me’ really well. Excuse me can sometimes get the better of us and have an impatient or irritated tone. Challenge yourself to only use excuse me when you’re sincere about it.
We hope the long days are treating you well. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday for the Throwback. Until then!
All the best,
Lizzie and Dan
Happy-Monday Joke
"What do you call a fake noodle?"
"An impasta."