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Summary: Learn how to place soup dishes for proper table settings with expert tips in this free video clip.
Isabel Ramirez is both educated and experience in Interior Decorating. She has many years of practical in home experience is decor and layout.read more
"Hi! My name is Isabel Ramirez. I'm from Wesley Chapel, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how to set a dining room table. Next we have our soup or salad bowl. When purchasing a dinner set, it usually comes with different items depending on the which ones you choose. The china I have here actually has matching bowls to the plates, the cups, and to the saucers. As you can see here, I've placed the dinner bowl in the center of the dinner plate. Of course, this is not going to be the way you use your dinnerware, but to get that nice formal look, you're going to set it up this way before your guests actually arrive. Once you've placed it in the center of the plate, you can notice it's directly in the middle of the dinner plate. Then when the guests arrive, they can place it to the side for whatever they choose to use it for. The design of this plate matches exactly the woven design that's on the dinner plate and actually covers the entire bowl, which gives us a nice uniform look for a nice formal affair."
eHow Article: How to Place Soup Dishes for Table Settings