Letitia Baldrige

It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere compliments.

A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.