DEAR MISS MANNERS: Every graduation season, my nonagenarian mother receives invitations to at least one graduation. (She has over 20 grandchildren.) Related Articles.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is graduating from high school, but she does not want a party. I would still like to send out graduation cards to help celebrate her achievement, but I don’t know ...

Announcements are not invoices. The proper response to formal or informal announcements is to send congratulations, with graduation presents being strictly optional.

A parent wants to send out announcements for her daughter’s graduation ceremony, but wants to make it clear she’s not having a party. May 6, 2025. 3 min. Column by Judith Martin, ...

As gifts are also optional when attending graduation parties, you should not feel that you (or your daughter) missed out. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve started meeting a friend for the cheap breakfast ...

The proper recipients of such announcements are people who 1. don’t already know; and 2. are presumed to be interested to hear. Yet Miss Manners had an inquiry from someone who wanted to send ...

A supportive stepmom faces a difficult choice when her stepson invites her to his high school graduation, but his mother threatens to leave — or keep her son from attending — if she shows up.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is graduating from high school, but she does not want a party. I would still like to send out graduation cards to help celebrate her achievement, but I don’t know ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Every graduation season, my nonagenarian mother receives invitations to at least one graduation. (She has over 20 grandchildren.) Last year, she attended one college graduation ...