How to Arrange Plates for Christmas Dinner

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Stephanie Barnett. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how to make this gorgeous Christmas table for your Christmas dinner. So now I want you to think about your plate serves. Are you having a buffet? Are you having a sit down dinner? Is it going to be family style and serve from the table? I would like to use my festive plates and I'm going to do a couple of courses. I'm going to have a salad course, a main dinner course and I'm going to have a desserts. I'm going to need plates for all of those and I have some small white plates for the salad, I have these plates for the middle and I have some lovely little black plates for the end. So by keeping theme of these black and white plates going by having the white plates first and the black plates last. I also want you to think about if you're having a buffet and if you have your grandmothers good China do you want people carrying that around. You need to think about how you're going to use the plates also if you're going to have courses like I am. I'm not going to set out any plates on the place mats. I'm going to bring the food in on the plates so you don't put the plates out on your place mats."