In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a host seeks advice on handling friends who arrive ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin gives a polite way to respond after a reader is asked about a ...

We cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, primitive accommodations and insufficient space and privately vowed to never ...

I usually say simply, “What a nice surprise,” but I am then left to shuffle place cards, add settings (often unmatched) and ...

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 ...

I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show ...

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

Miss Manners assures you that you are not being impolite if, after one or two short responses, you find something to do that ...

Why is it not considered rude to engage me in conversation against my will, but it IS considered rude to tell people you ...

Why is it not considered rude to engage me in conversation against my will, but it is considered rude to tell people you don’t want to talk?” ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am getting married in a traditional church ceremony. My father, who will be giving me away, has refused ...

I feel like his refusal to wear a tux or tie demonstrates a lack of respect for what is, to me, a deeply important formal ...