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

These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a host seeks advice on handling friends who arrive without RSVPing.

The card includes carvings of 65 gods and goddesses in total. Two representations of Lord Venkateswara, also known as ...

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko announced the start of sending invitations for health screening to citizens over ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Reddit user GirlAvoider recently posed the question, "Those who left everything behind and started a new life, how did you do ...

This isn't normal ‘bridezilla’ stuff, this is a different level ...

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