We all want to feel comfortable when we’re out and about, but sometimes our own actions can create awkward moments for ...

I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed -- china, crystal, linen, silver -- that other relatives ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show up anyway. What’s the best way to accommodate them?

Miss Manners hopes, however, that you will not otherwise dumb down your charming, seated dinner parties because of a few outlaws. We, the purveyors of fish knives and strawberry forks, are a dying ...

Elaine West Grimes first accepted a job at Disney World in 1975. More than 50 years later, she continues to serve hundreds of guest every day as 'everybody's favorite Aunt Elaine.' ...

Times are certainly changing when it comes to what’s accepted as doctrine in the world of manners and etiquette. One thing ...