Guests can come at any time, and they should always be met with dignity, and this, you must agree, is a whole art. Following our simple recommendations, you will learn how to receive and accompany the guests decently and without "human sacrifice"!
The concept of "guests" is often combined with everyday consequences - a whole mountain of unwashed dishes, a trampled floor and intricate stains from wine on a tablecloth or sofa. But it's not so difficult to make a decent reception of guests. The main thing is to follow simple rules about how to receive and hold guests.
Dress code is optional
What do you think, who will look more ridiculous - an athlete in a ballet tutu or a lady in an evening outfit on stilettos against the background of an average apartment? In advance to warn guests about a very modest dress code. At home gatherings, everyday clothes are very suitable. The best option - two-layer "guest" clothing. T-shirt (shirt) and blouse - with their help you can regulate the temperature of your body with the temperature of the apartment.
Slippers for guests
Before accepting people, worry about replacement shoes. Of course, the ceremony of offering a guest master slippers is ineradicable, but to a good tone has little to do with it. This looks very non-aesthetic and not hygienic. Therefore, either provide guests with a clean floor, or offer another option. For example, ask people going to visit to take comfortable shoes without heels. Remember that the studs can destroy even a very strong and strong parquet on the floor. Well, moccasins or ballet shoes are the best option. In the second case, you can buy a whole bunch of inexpensive washable slippers of different sizes and take people with this arsenal, offering them a choice of slippers you like. By the way, the latter option is considered the most suitable, since guests can afford to shoe everything they want and you do not have to ring them with a humiliating request to take change shoes.
Dinner is served
Take guests must be fully armed. Especially it concerns food. It, just in case, should be more for as many as two guests. Variants of placing dishes with food, as a rule, are two. In the first case - a classic feast with a full or partial table setting or a buffet table. Cocktail has its advantages: food can be placed in a corner on the table, thereby freeing up the territory for dancing and entertainment. One-time dishes can be included in the buffet table. By doing this, you can make it easier for yourself to clean when the guests leave. With a feast, you must use a festive service. Before drawing up the menu, do not forget to show interest in dietary preferences.
Hospitality Details
In order to ensure that guests do not forget that they are not at home, but on a visit, it will be fortunate if you are not too lazy to indicate at the invitation the exact time of the end of the holiday. After seeing off the guests should be culturally, and not push them out in all ways and tricks for the threshold. Do not hesitate in advance to inform the guests that the banquet will last, for example, up to 6 and not a minute longer. By the way, you can hint that after this time you have very important things to come that you can not cancel.
The right guests
As a rule, well-educated guests will certainly want to please the landlady and bring something for food. You should not hide this gift in the far corner, put a gift on the table, among the prepared dishes. You brought flowers - even if you do not like at all, thank you for your attention and do not show your displeasure. Well, if the guests came with empty hands, it is not worthwhile at every opportunity, as if by accident, to remind them of this with subtle hints.
Until next time
To accompany people should be as cultured as meeting. Do not forget to give the guests a bag (outer clothing) and hold them to the doorstep. Thank them for taking the time and visiting you, bringing you this great pleasure. Show that you are happy to see them again. Remember, you will learn to see off beautifully the guests - and they will necessarily want to visit your house again. The main thing is to accept and accompany the guests with a smile!