Comments on: Placating Picky Eaters: Ensuring all your guests are happy http://www.etiquettedaily.com/2009/07/placating-picky-eaters-ensuring-all-your-guests-are-happy/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ellen http://www.etiquettedaily.com/2009/07/placating-picky-eaters-ensuring-all-your-guests-are-happy/#comment-3157 Ellen Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.etiquettedaily.com/?p=1194#comment-3157 This is a poignant topic for me at the present time as I am in the process of planning the menu for our wedding. We are likely going to be serving only one meat entree option during our seated dinner reception. It will probably be either chicken or beef. Of course we will have a vegetarian option as well. We know most of the guests who are vegetarian and thus would rather not have to include en entree choice on our RSVP. Would it be appropriate for us to write something like this on our response card: "Please email rsvp@insertaddress.com to specify any food sensitivities." Is that tacky? We want to be gracious, accommodating hosts! Thank you in advance for your insight on this. I LOVE Emily Post's advice! I picked up the Wedding Etiquette book and it has become my "Big Day Bible". Keep up the great work in saving us all from social disasters one tip at a time. This is a poignant topic for me at the present time as I am in the process of planning the menu for our wedding. We are likely going to be serving only one meat entree option during our seated dinner reception. It will probably be either chicken or beef. Of course we will have a vegetarian option as well. We know most of the guests who are vegetarian and thus would rather not have to include en entree choice on our RSVP. Would it be appropriate for us to write something like this on our response card: “Please email rsvp@insertaddress.com to specify any food sensitivities.” Is that tacky? We want to be gracious, accommodating hosts!

Thank you in advance for your insight on this. I LOVE Emily Post’s advice! I picked up the Wedding Etiquette book and it has become my “Big Day Bible”. Keep up the great work in saving us all from social disasters one tip at a time.

]]> By: NoLess THan Marchioness http://www.etiquettedaily.com/2009/07/placating-picky-eaters-ensuring-all-your-guests-are-happy/#comment-458 NoLess THan Marchioness Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:25:31 +0000 http://www.etiquettedaily.com/?p=1194#comment-458 Nowadays it seems as there are more and more allergies and diet restrictions for either heath or religious beliefs. I am always accomodating when a guest tells me when confirming the invitation rather when they are seated at the table. When this happens I try to improvise something else for them. On the other hand "Picky Eaters" or the latest fad dieters are usually not follwed up on their capricious requests . It is quite unpolite to have your host leave guests and whip up something. I may sound harsh but if I were a restaurateur with a full staffed kitchen it would be different, but at home after a meal, china , silverware has been planned to perfection, such request seems out of place. Eleonora Tortorici Marchioness of Montaperto Nowadays it seems as there are more and more allergies and diet restrictions for either heath or religious beliefs. I am always accomodating when a guest tells me when confirming the invitation rather when they are seated at the table. When this happens I try to improvise something else for them.
On the other hand “Picky Eaters” or the latest fad dieters are usually not follwed up on their capricious requests . It is quite unpolite to have your host leave guests and whip up something. I may sound harsh but if I were a restaurateur with a full staffed kitchen it would be different, but at home after a meal, china , silverware has been planned to perfection, such request seems out of place.

Eleonora Tortorici Marchioness of Montaperto

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