Table Setting Guide Dress your dinner to impress with these fabulous table-setting tips and techniques.

 

 

If your gathering for a dinner party, you'll want your table to be set appropriately. The following suggestions are for the perfect place setting:

 

• Place the napkin to the left of the forks, on the plate or in a wine glass.
• The salad plate can be placed either to the left of the forks or above them.
• The bread plate is placed to the upper right of the salad plate.
• Forks are placed on the left side of the dinner plate and knife and spoons are placed on the right. The bottoms of the silverware should all be lined up with each other.
• The cutting edge of the knife faces the plate.
• The water glass/goblet should be placed an inch above the point of the knife, with other glasses being lined up slightly below and to the right of the previous glass.
• A butter knife can be placed horizontally on top of the bread plate if needed.
• A name card can be placed directly above the dinner plate.