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Brides can be cheap, but not tacky

Planning the celebration of a lifetime during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression is a daunting task, so it's no secret that many brides are cutting back. The average amount a couple is spending on their wedding this year is down more than $5,000 from 2008, theweddingreport.com estimates.

How to address women -- married, divorced, single

Although I don't plan to change my name when I get hitched this summer, I respect and appreciate every woman's right to choose what's best for her. I reject the notion some have expressed that when a woman takes her husband's last name she's giving up her identity.

How to be a heavenly houseguest -- and keep your sanity

Shuffling through airport security in your socks or sitting in traffic may seem like a breeze compared with the stresses of settling in under the same roof with family.

My friends are eco freaks

Jay Byrne knows that his mother-in-law meant well when her two young grandchildren came to visit.

How to set a pretty table

Whether you're serving dinner, lunch, or brunch, follow these rules of the pretty table.

Money Magazine: To Prosper, Be Proper

mportant as job skills, your professional success can hinge on an ability to make colleagues and clients feel comfortable. In a new edition of Emily Post's The Etiquette Advantage in Business, Peter Post (he is Emily's great-grandson) and Peggy Post (she is married to his brother) explain how to do the right thing in hundreds of delicate workplace situations. ...

Money Magazine: To Prosper, Be Proper

If you think proper behavior is merely a matter of knowing which fork to use for your salad, you are--please forgive us for saying so--sadly mistaken. In a world where people skills are often as im...

Money Magazine: Charity begins at work: When co-workers come collecting

Used to be, when fall rolled 'round, you were expected to give to just one charity at work—United Way. But these days you're probably bombarded with appeals from colleagues in charitable walkathons...

How to practice cubicle courtesy

Let's play "Pyramid" for a minute. You know, the game where one person hands out clues and the partner has to guess what they have in common.

Fortune: Peter Post

As the author, with his sister-in-law Peggy Post, of The Etiquette Advantage in Business, Post updates the work of his great-grandmother Emily Post. The book touches on everything from proper casua...

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