GENTLE READER: Here is another argument against inviting the extended family to a graduation: Graduation ceremonies can be ...

Miss Manners is grateful for anything that stops people from becoming belligerent, which is what she gathers you mean by ...

I find it offensive to ask family members to pay for airfare, expensive hotels and food while we provide nothing.

One of them told my mother that her spiritual adviser said that turning down an invitation was insulting and hurtful and ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to navigating family expectations for an out-of-state ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is graduating from high school, but she does not want a party ... entirely. Announcements are not invoices. The proper response to formal or informal announcements is to ...

The couple wants to celebrate their son's accomplishment. But without a family party after the event, would any of them ...

I find it offensive to ask family members to pay for airfare, expensive hotels and food while we provide nothing.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is graduating from high school, but she does not want a party ... to formal or informal announcements is to send congratulations, with graduation presents being ...