Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
I have been slowly slogging through grad school -- one course a semester -- and after four long years, I’m finally going to graduate.
How can I tactfully word the invitation so everyone knows I’m inviting them to dinner, not treating them to one? I don’t want anyone to be embarrassed due to assumptions or expectations.Here is a lesson about the real world: If you cannot afford to do something, you cannot do it. Miss Manners will not help you do that. Why didn’t you ask, instead, how you could entertain your colleagues inexpensively?
But yes, the bridegroom can inquire, in the spirit of friendship, what his buddy is thinking of saying. He could even drop some remarks about the sensitivity of the crowd, and what topics should be avoided, however amusing.DEAR MISS MANNERS:
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