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Hey, y'all, it's Marielle.
Hmm.
Was that too casual?
Let me try that again.
Hello there, fine people.
Good day to you.
How does the morning find you?
Here we go.
Is that a better etiquette for a greeting?
People really think that etiquette's about just dining or being snotty or, you know, and being pretentious.
But I love to kind of retrain people that etiquette is just about kindness and about thinking about other people first and respect.
At the end of the day, that's.
Modern etiquette expert Micah Meyer.
She's the founder of Beaumont Etiquette, where she teaches courses in everything from business and social etiquette to public speaking and afternoon tea.
So the way that we do things, the way that we present ourselves, we get dressed in the morning for work or for a social event.
And of course, it's to make us feel good, but it's also to show respect to the person so we're not just rolling out of bed to go meet that person.
Etiquette, that is the topic of this edition of Dear Life Kit, the series from reporter Andy Tagle, where we answer listener questions.
In particular, we're talking about wedding etiquette because we're coming up on that fun but confusing time of year, wedding season.
Today on the show, Andy asks Micah some of your thorny wedding questions and gets some surprising answers.