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Toasts

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Dear Miss SOS:

Our budget is limited and so at the wedding reception we plan on serving champagne for the toast to the wedding party only. Is this OK?

Please, you’re making Miss SOS hair curl. If one cannot afford something special for one’s guests, one does not consume that very thing in front of them. Nor does one invite certain people and then treat them like they are second-class citizens. If you can’t afford champagne, serve a sparkling non-alcoholic beverage for the toast.

Dear Miss SOS:

Now that I’m engaged, my fiancé and I are in a continual whirlwind of parties. I’m not complaining as I’m enjoying all the excitement and attention. However, at all of these parties, there is toast made wishing us both the best and future happiness. Am I supposed to lift my glass in toast with them? It seems like I’m applauding myself when I do.

Miss SOS applauds your instincts in understanding that one does not drink a toast to oneself. You are the object of all these liquid good wishes. All you have to do – in fact, all you should do – is sit there, hands in your lap, supposedly drunk on happiness, and smile demurely while everyone else drinks to you. Only after the toast is completed may you lift your glass to take a sip.

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