RE: Funeral or reveal party?
April 12, 2018 at 5:44 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2018 at 5:50 pm by mlmooney89.)
(April 12, 2018 at 2:33 pm)Shell B Wrote:(April 12, 2018 at 2:12 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Short answer? Miss Manners says so. Long answer is in etiquette rules. I'm very big into following etiquette rules to the point where I say "But Miss Manners says..." so much my family will yell at me the moment they hear her name. Here is what she says about different parties.
For serious? Etiquette is a farce.
Also . . . Emily Post is the etiquette queen and the Emily Post Institute puts no such restrictions on baby showers. Who is this Miss Manners bitch and where does she get off telling people how to live?
It may be a farce to you but it's important to me. Also Emily Post has been dead for 60 years so I don't think she was consulted about whether immediate family should host showers now. To her they shouldn't. In the modern edition of her book it does say
"Because gifts are central to showers, hosting by a member of the honoree’s (or husband’s) immediate family appeared self-serving. Today it is appropriate for anyone to host a baby shower as long as there’s a legitimate reason."
I don't think just because you like to host parties for your siblings count as a legitimate reason so even they don't agree it should be done.
Also Miss Manners has been writing about etiquette since the 70s so not long after Emily post died which means they were probably on the same page of what was proper
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