If a guest brings you a wonderful bottle of French wine, and you can't find a bottle opener, is this acceptable? Note: Etiquette exper...

When sending an invitation to an event, you always want to make sure that your guests are comfortable from entrance to exit. One way to ensu...

By Mindy Lockard Etiquette Consultant Mannerofthemonth.com We are honored to have you here on the Crane Insider for day two of our personal...

By Mindy Lockard Etiquette Consultant Mannerofthemonth.com Sometimes, manners get us so hung up on “the fork” that we lose sight of the ...

With Halloween just around the bend, it's time to revisit some of the essential rules of etiquette for Trick or Treating. To assist us i...

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's spontaneous eruption during the president's address to Congress last night left me shaking my head, wondering...

By Guest Blogger Mindy Lockard As an etiquette consultant, I have the privilege of working with a wide range of people from the fifth-grade ...

I have my Google Reader set to all sorts of key words, and one of them is "etiquette." It's an interesting read each morning a...

Pamela Eyring, left, is the owner and director of The Protocol School of Washington . She is presenting the school's Dignity, Honor and ...

Insider’s Note: I had the pleasure of meeting Mindy Lockard , an etiquette consultant from Eugene, Oregon, at the National Stationery Show. ...

So many questions; so little time. I get questions all the time about the “proper” etiquette of correspondence. And many of those inquiries ...

Late last week, I was enjoying cocktail hour with my wife and my mom and, of course, the phone rings. It was after formal business hours, bu...