Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are two straightforward—and simple—ways to respond to social invitations: Tell the host you’ll be ...

Dear Miss Manners: Is it now considered "pretentious," as my 12-year-old son suspects, to respond to a formal party invitation with the traditional wording, "----- accepts with pleasure the kind ...

Many of my husband's family members “liked” the digital invitation, but did not specifically respond as to whether or not ...

Guests ought to be insulted by response cards. Decent people of course already know (yes? yes?) that they must always reply to all invitations, even the most casual ones. Does anyone think it all ...

Visit Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com, where you can send her your questions. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I minored in French in college and still remember some of it. I live in California ...

Taking to Reddit, one person shared pictures of the response their mother received after sending out wedding invitations in 1981— and it’s really something. Fair enough, you might think. But wait, ...