Dear Miss Manners: Is it now considered “pretentious,” as my 12-year-old son suspects, to respond to a formal party invitation with the traditional wording, “————— accepts with pleasure the kind ...

In a world of Facebook events, E-vites and word of mouth, it isn’t very often we have to buckle down and send out formal invitations. But when the time comes, it’s important they’re done correctly.

Q My wife just made me sit through much more of the royal wedding and follow-ups than I ever would have wanted to, that being ... any. Since we have a formal wedding to go to this summer, I was ...