• Bread plate
• Butter knife
• Water glass
• White wine glass
• Red wine glass
• Dinner fork
• Salad fork
• Dinner knife
• Soup spoon
• Dessert spoon
• Dessert fork
Refer to the above image to further help you build your basic table setting. First, place down the charger. Next, insert the
napkin into the napkin ring and lay flat on the charger. Place your dinner and salad forks on the left side of the charger,
making sure the dinner fork is closest to the charger, with the knife and spoon on the right side of the charger. The knife
should be closest to the charger, with the blade facing inward toward the plate. Above the charger, add the dessert fork, then
above that, the dessert spoon. Lay down the bread plate to the left, diagonally, of the charger, directly above the dinner and
salad forks and to the left of the dessert spoon and fork. Place the butter knife atop the bread plate. Finally, grab your water
glass, red wine glass and white wine glass and place them down so they’re to the right, diagonally, of the charger, but above
the dinner knife and dinner spoon, and to the right of the dessert spoon and fork. Once everything has been placed, and
matches what’s shown in the image, you’ve completed a basic formal table setting.
Tip: If you are only serving white wine, you can forgo the red wine glass.
Setting the Table for Soup
For eating soup, you will mimic the format of the table setting shown in section 2. But now, you’ll add a soup bowl to the
mix, and set it on top of the charger. All other pieces of the setting remain the same as in the basic step.
What you’ll need at each place setting:
• Charger
• Soup bowl
• Napkin
• Bread plate
• Butter knife
• Water glass
• White wine glass
• Red wine glass
• Dinner fork
• Salad fork
• Dinner knife