Formal dinner table

On the nights you host a dinner party, treat your guests to a properly set table. Along with help from etiquette experts, we share how to set a formal dinner table like a pro.

Learn how to set a table with easy-to-follow charts and diagrams for setting formal occasions and casual parties and dinners.

Have you ever been in a situation where you don’t know the social rules and have made a major error so off-the-mark that you want to just crawl under the table and disappear? Or maybe you’ve had someone come into your life who has no idea how to behave and you find yourself judging and distancing from them, even if you don’t want to? Please and thank you, bows and handshakes, who goes first, cellphones at the dinner table: does proper etiquette really matter?

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