Festive Table Laying

In this article, we will discuss in detail how to serve the table for any holiday. One of the most important items of the festive table laying is the presence on it of a white starched tablecloth. It will emphasize the entire contents of your table, and just by itself will create a festive mood. Would not be unnecessary decoration in the form of low vases with flowers (preferably one type, not with a strongly emitting odor).

Serving: in the middle of the table it is customary to put a vase of fruit, if it is great, you can evenly place several fruit vases, next to the center there are saltcellars, sauce dishes, mills with seasonings. Also it would not be bad in some places of the festive table to put pepper and salt shakers. The neck of the container, for example with olive oil and others, should be carefully wrapped in a linen napkin, so that in case of a leak it can be removed in time.

Since the table is usually crowded with various dishes and drinks, it is best to place breadcrumbs nearby on a small substitute table and serve bread as needed. If in another way, the breadbasket should be placed better at different ends of the table. The napkins should be placed evenly along the table, so that they stand parallel to the ends of the table. Various drinks, champagne and wine (previously uncorked) should be placed closer to the middle, along the center of the table and several bottles / carafes in different places (in the center, at equal distances from each other).

And to serve the festive table, the dishes of Villeroy & Boch would also be very good. Plates large and small should be placed at an equal distance from each other. A snack bar is placed on top of a small plate, and a pie plate on the left. Cutlery is served in this way: the knife is placed to the right of the plate with a blade toward the plate, the spoon is to the right of the knife. A fork is placed to the left of the plate. Both the spoon and the fork must lie with a convex side down. If you offer fish dishes, then additionally (to the right of the usual knife) is put a fish knife, and to the left of the usual fork - in addition there is a fish knife. To all snacks you need to apply additional appliances (fork, spoon, forceps, scapula, etc.).

Dishes for drinks (glasses, glasses, glasses, cognacs, etc.) should be on the right hand, to the right of cutlery, in one row or two (if different types of glasses and wine glasses a lot) - along the knife, To the larger from the guest in the direction of the middle of the table. Dessert instruments are more sensible to serve with dessert at the end, when the guests have already tasted the main dishes. Dessert spoon with a convex side down put to the right of a tablespoon, a dessert knife - to the right of the table knife, and a dessert fork to the left of the dining-room fork).

Any civilized festive table setting will not do without beautiful napkins (linen or linen), for those purposes, for example, that guests can put them on their knees, so as not to accidentally stain clothes when eating. These napkins can be folded in a triangle, accordion or cone and put under a plate, next to it or directly to it - again at your discretion, as you think it would look better, but usually make a cone and put on a plate that looks more solemn.