Festive table setting (280+ Photos): Technology and rules for organizing meals
If you need the original table setting, technology and imagination will help to organize any meal.
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Competent table setting - the final stage of preparation for the upcoming feast. It allows you to shade the originality of the dishes served, emphasize the artistic taste and helps to create a festive or homely atmosphere. Serving is necessary for breakfast in the family circle, and for a solemn dinner on the anniversary, and for a reception in honor of the engagement.
Create a festive atmosphere
The reason for the feast is the main factor determining the number of invited guests and the format of the meeting. It depends on the choice of food served, textiles, dishes and cutlery. For example, for a Sunday family dinner, you can choose a simpler design than the birthday or wedding anniversary.
We make out the theme of feast
When searching for serving options, consider:
- Times of Day. In preparing for breakfast, use bright dishes and bright textiles made of cotton or linen. A tablecloth and napkins from dense fabrics of noble shades - burgundy, dark blue or golden are appropriate for a festive dinner.
- Season of the year. To decorate the table in spring or summer, choose light and sunny shades, and in winter or autumn - more saturated and tones. In accordance with the season, you can pick up flowers and other accessories for decoration.
For breakfast, it is better to use white dishes.
White light color
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Fundamental rules
Serving is done in sequence. Compliance with technology will allow you to quickly, competently place everything you need for the upcoming feast. The list of used items should be selected in accordance with the occasion, the time of the celebration or reception.
Serving items depends on the occasion
During the serving process, you must do the following:
- Spread the tablecloth, which should hang down by about 20-30 cm. Long cloths to the floor can be used in the preparation of gala dinners. In this case, it is better to complement them with a small tablecloth of a contrasting shade, which is spread over the main one.
- Place the plates. Their combination, the number depends on the number of guests, the scale of the holiday and the planned menu.The standard set includes a serving, snack bar and dessert plates, and when serving liquid dishes you will need a deep one.
Approximate layout scheme
- Lay out the cutlery. They are placed on the tablecloth: to the left of the plate are forks, and to the right are spoons and knives. Instruments put the concave side up.
- Put the dishes for drinks. It is placed just to the right of the plates, from glasses of larger volume to smaller items. The choice of the quantity and type of dishes is influenced by the list of drinks served to the feast.
- Put the napkins. Depending on the reason for serving, they can be fabric or paper. For special occasions, you can decorate napkins with ribbons, special rings, or fold them in the form of an envelope, bow, fan, or other shapes.
We fold beautifully napkin
At the end of the serving decorate using different materials. For the New Year and Christmas holidays, sprigs of pine, spruce, balls, and candles will be an appropriate addition. At the feast in honor of the anniversary of the wedding or anniversary, use flowers, fruit compositions to decorate.
Use fresh flowers
Glass must be polished before serving
Learning to serve
Elementary concepts that everyone should know
Design for children's parties
Serving for children at a birthday or for another event has features rules. To arrange a child, its guests a cheerful, bright holiday, take care of creating a solemn, friendly atmosphere. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure the safety of invited children, to clarify with their parents undesirable products for consumption.
We arrange a bright holiday
Registration begins with a choice of a theme of a feast. It defines the colors of dishes, textiles, accessories, as well as the list, decor of dishes. Invent the subject of the events together with the hero of the occasion or considering his addictions.
We make out on the subject of the holiday
Popular options include:
- Holidays based on your favorite cartoons, movies or books. You can choose such classic works as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, or modern ones: “Cold Heart”, “Cars”, “Toy Story”, others. To decorate the table, use the figurines of your favorite characters, the colors of their surroundings.
We use our favorite characters for decoration.
- Feasts with an emphasis on an unusual profession or field of activity. What kind of theme depends on the interests and preferences of your child. His hobbies can be beaten with accessories and decorations in a suitable style.
- Celebrations in which the atmosphere of different eras or cultures. The holiday surrounded by medieval knights or pirates, magical fairies, princesses will be remembered for a long time, like more than the usual lunch or dinner. Emphasize the theme you can design a room, strictly sustained colors.
pirate Party
When serving for teens, you can focus on your favorite color scheme or arrange a feast in the style of the country, whose culinary delights especially like the hero of the occasion. For dinner in Japanese - it's sushi, an evening in Italian is unthinkable without pasta and pizza, and to create an atmosphere of sultry Mexico at the festival will need tacos with burritos.
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Birthday is a responsible holiday. In order for its atmosphere to evoke positive emotions from the guests, the hero of the occasion, I remember for a long time, it is necessary to carefully prepare for a feast. A beautiful, stylishly served festive table will leave a pleasant impression, will be another reason for a good mood and fun.
Reason to be remembered
When choosing a design feast, consider the season of the celebration.You can highlight the colors of autumn or summer outside the window or create a contrasting atmosphere due to the spring decor in winter. To do this, use textiles, dishes of certain shades, compositions of flowers, fruits, and other accessories.
Dilute with bright colors
For a spring holiday in a narrow circle in the country or in a country house, you can set a table in lilac tones on the veranda. Gentle painting of the dishes is underlined by transparent vases, fragile flowers. The composition is set off by a snow-white table, the same linen napkins with lace edges.
Gentle painting in classic style
When organizing a feast for those born in the hot summer, use bright colors in the serving. Tablecloth and napkins of rich yellow, orange, green or red hues are combined with snow-white dishes and transparent glasses. Emphasize the atmosphere of the holiday flowers of suitable colors.
Harmony with rich warm colors
You can decorate the table for the autumn celebration with bouquets of fallen leaves and rowan branches. The color scheme of the textiles used is suggested by nature itself. Terracotta and golden hues are suitable for creating an autumn atmosphere. Complement the table setting with dishes with decor and glasses in the color of bronze or gold.
We complement the elegant decor
For winter birthdays, when setting the table, choose textiles and dishes of cold colors. A dark blue tablecloth perfectly with silver cutlery, snow-white porcelain and crystal glasses. As a supplement, you can use openwork napkins in the form of snowflakes and candles that match the color.
Often use candles for decoration
The theme of organizing a feast can be chosen in accordance with the preferences of the hero of the occasion. For lovers of the sea, serve the table with dishes in blue and white colors, and use decorations in the form of starfish and shells as a decor.
Blue and white serving
We take into account the tastes and wishes
Romantic table decor
Romantic encounter implies an unusual atmosphere and privacy, which can be emphasized with the help of proper table setting. When choosing a design style, consider the preferences and color preferences of your chosen one or darling. For this decor, you do not need to wait for St. Valentine's Day: with lovingly chosen dishes and accessories will transform the most ordinary lunch or dinner.
Make with love
As a rule, a romantic meeting involves a joint dinner. For its serving, use textiles or dishes of red color and candles that will create twilight in the room. Romantic natures will like accessories in the form of a heart and a composition of roses.
Various accessories will not be superfluous
If you like non-standard solutions and have a cool attitude to red hues and an abundance of hearts, set the table for a romantic breakfast. Candles and flowers are necessary, and the color scheme is chosen to suit your preferences and taste of the guest. In addition, hearts can be made from napkins, fruit and even toast.
Flowers as a required attribute
Attractive still life
Organization of a feast for a wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversary is an important stage in the life of every family. Some celebrate it noisily and cheerfully, inviting relatives and friends to a feast. Others consider this day to be a personal event and celebrate with family.
Table setting for wedding anniversary
No matter how you decide to celebrate your wedding anniversary, you will need a more solemn table setting than the design of your daily lunch or dinner. The format of the event depends on the number of invited guests and the place of celebration. In accordance with this determine the menu, the type of dishes, textiles and a list of accessories.
Registration for a linen wedding
You can choose the color scheme and the concept of decor, taking into account the name of the wedding anniversary, which depends on the number of past years. For example:
- Calico. She celebrated a year after the wedding. To celebrate this event, you can make a table with a tablecloth of brightly colored fabrics, use paper or cloth napkins with a floral pattern and original dishes for decorating.
- Wooden. The reason for the feast arises after five years of marriage. For serving the table, you can choose a linen tablecloth and napkins of pastel colors, wooden utensils or accessories.
- Pink Ten years have passed since the wedding day, and those who were present during the creation of the family are usually invited to the feast. For serving the table, use textiles or dishes of pink shades, and as decoration - bouquets or compositions of roses.
Pink wedding
- Ruby. Forty years is a worthy date, which is usually celebrated in the atmosphere of a restaurant or cafe. If you are organizing a feast at home, use glasses of a noble ruby color or textiles of claret tones for serving, adding snow-white plates to them.
Noble ruby shades
Table setting for New Year's table
Making a table for a New Year's Eve feast has certain traditions. For such a serving is characterized by the use of red, green and golden hues. You can emphasize the atmosphere of the holiday with candles, compositions from fir branches and balls and other accessories.
We use Christmas accessories
The combination when setting the table of textiles of two primary colors of New Year's feasts - red napkins and a green tablecloth looks stylish. They are complemented by green glasses, snow-white dishes and stylized deer figurines as decorations.
As without new year merchandise
No less popular is the design of the table in silver-blue shades. For such a serving, use white plates and transparent glasses with exquisite carvings. The subtlety of the decor is set off by blue-white napkins and silvery figures of fir-trees.
Silver-blue shades in the theme of the holiday
New Year's table
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