How to Set the Table for Basic, Informal, & Formal Dinners

Video Transcript

"There are different ways to set up a table and actually that can be a little bit complicated and a little bit tricky. Let's take a look at some tips and I'll give you and I'll help you about how to do three of them. I'm Hazely Lopez from Hazely Academy of Refinement and Modeling and I'm here to talk to you about how to set up the table for basic, informal, and formal dinner. Alright well, we're going to start with the basic, and as you can see here it's just a simple plate with your utensils. A fork, a knife, and maybe a spoon also you may add that, also you have just a simple glass on top it's great for refreshments or water or anything you want to offer to drink. Now let's look at little bit more elaborate one. Let's take a look at the informal place setting. In here, you're going to be seeing that we actually have the salad fork as an additional instrument, and we also have the water glass and the red wine glass. The basic difference between this one and the basic is that you're just adding more utensil to the table, adding more silverware. You are always going to use as a trick that you are going to be using the silverware from outside to inside. Another one that we can take a look at is the actual formal dinner. The formal dinner and you can see in this picture is little bit more than that, you're actually looking at the bread plate as an additional instrument and that it's on the upper left side. You're also going to take a look at the additional white wine glass that we have on the far right end. And we have the after meal drink. Also we have the soup that goes on the service plate, the regular plate, and the main plate which is after that the charger plate, excuse me. It's really great and it's really fun to have different types of meals so I'm Hazely Lopez from Hazely Academy of Refinement and Modeling and this is how you set up more than one table."