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12 Elegant Dining Table Setup Ideas for Every Occasion (You’ll Love #7!)
Transform your dining experience with these 12 elegant dining table setup ideas perfect for every occasion. Whether you're hosting a casual dinner party or a formal celebration, these stylish arrangements will impress your guests and elevate your home dining atmosphere. • Discover unique themes for every celebration
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Setting a Formal Table: A Visual Guide!
I don’t throw many (or any, really) formal dinner parties, but I still found this diagram helpful, if for no other reason than it illuminates Downton Abbey’s dining etiquette.All joking aside, seeing this diagram reminded me of a few table-setting rules I learned from my mother as a child: the knife blade always faces towards the plate; the coffee spoon lies horizontally above it; and the water goblet sits in the upper righthand corner above and angled to the (smaller) wine glass.
Minding Our Manners
Have you ever been in a situation where you don’t know the social rules and have made a major error so off-the-mark that you want to just crawl under the table and disappear? Or maybe you’ve had someone come into your life who has no idea how to behave and you find yourself judging and distancing from them, even if you don’t want to? Please and thank you, bows and handshakes, who goes first, cellphones at the dinner table: does proper etiquette really matter?
