One wedding gift will suffice

Dear Miss Manners: How many wedding gifts do you give? One for the engagement, one for each shower and one for the wedding. Is this correct? Gentle Reader: The answer Miss Manners will give you is not what you would hear from most engaged couples or those who aid and abet them.

Travel Etiquette: Flakes on a Plane

Etiquette expert Lesley Carlin offers tips on ensuring good hygiene while flying and helping with your friend's wedding.

Surviving wedding season - an etiquette guide for guests

Wedding season is upon us! This article is a brief overview of how to avoid being a terrible guest.

If You Want Me to RSVP, Then You Need to Actually Invite Me

I returned the RSVP card for a wedding earlier this week, and it made my think of this piece from the archives where I struggled with RSVPs for my sister-in-law’s bridal shower. Titled “RSVP A Cultural Construct?,” it examined the obligations that invitations carry. The following has been edited from its original posting for clarity and relevance, and presents a some new thoughts on the matter ...

Boyfriend Tugs At Heartstrings From A Very Long Distance

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, "Cole," and I have been together since college -- several years now. We have a loving relationship, but the problem is distance. My job sometimes requires me to take short-term (two- to five-month) contracts in other cities and overseas.Even though it is difficult to be apart, I handle long-distance relationships relatively well while Cole does not. This began in college ...