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Setting a Formal Table
Setting a formal table setting
may be intimidating to many people - but it's really very easy. If
you can read a clock, you can set an elegant table. Just use this
step-by-step guide to setting a formal table and you'll soon be
laying out perfect place settings without confidence.
1) Center a charger plate
directly in front of each chair; and one inch from the edge of the
table. Place the dinner plate in the center of the charger. (A
charger plate is not necessary, but it's preferred.)
2) If you're pre-setting a soup
or salad plate, center it on top of the dinner plate. Remember, no
bowl is ever placed on a place setting, without a flat plate
underneath it!
3) Using the dinner plate as the
center of your "clock," position a water glass at 1:00. Set
a red wine glass just below and left of that, and a white wine glass
below and to the left of the red.
4) Position the bread and butter
plate at 10:00. Center the butter knife so the tip sits across the
top of the plate at 10:00 and 1:00. The curved portion of the knife
faces down.
5) If you're pre-setting the
dessert spoon and fork, they would be arranged at two inches above
12:00. The spoon's bowl would face left. Below that, the fork's tongs
would face right.
6) Starting one inch to the left
of 9:00, place the dinner fork. The salad fork should be directly to
the left of that. Place the dinner knife at the 3:00 position. Place
the soup spoon to the right of that. Here's a helpful; way to
remember: Flatware is used from the outside in and forks always go on
the left. Another trick to help you remember is that"fork"
and "left" have the same number of letters.
There, that was easy wasn't
it? You'll come off like a pro at setting a formal table!
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