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Table Setting Tips and Ideas for Thanksgiving

You have an elaborate menu, all your dishes are ready; you have polished and scrubbed your dinnerware well, bought new tablecloths and fabric napkins and are ready to throw out a wonderful Thanksgiving feast. Here are some table setting tips and ideas that you can use to make your Thanksgiving Dinner a huge success:

Formal style of serving the meals is the one where someone serves each plate in the kitchen and delivers it to the table and there is someone to wait on everybody at the table.
If you are hosting a large gather or having a potluck dinner, you may also arrange for buffet-style serving.
Make sure you have a serving dish and serving utensils for each of your dish and that you have enough gravy ladles too.
The dinner fork is kept closest to the plate on the left side and the salad fork is farthest away from it while knife is kept closes to the plate on the right with the blade facing towards the plate and spoon is further on the right. The soup spoons are the furthest on the right while tea spoon, if present, is placed just after the knife.
The host may sit on the head of the table and serve each plate there and pass it down to the guests. Serving dishes are then left on the table, so that they can be passed on for second and third helpings.
While setting the holiday table, plan out on the positions of the serving dishes too along with table settings and place serving utensils next to the serving dishes.
You may serve in family style, where the table is already set with all the dinnerware already arranged at each seating place and serving dishes are placed at the center of the table, from where they are passed down to all the guests, who can then serve themselves.