Learn the table setting for the New Year's table, or rather her art is easy. After all, a beautifully decorated table is, first of all, a great opportunity to show your personal skill, imagination, taste and ingenuity. Any little thing, sometimes it can do wonders, which we will try to prove to you. Following our advice, your festive serving will be the best in the coming New Year's Eve.
Style
Remember that all the table setting should be observed in the same style. In the center of the table should always be placed a vase in which the fruit is located, next to it put the soup with mustard, vinegar, pepper. It will be very successful if you place small saltcellars in several places at once. Cold snacks should be placed closer to the center of the table. But breadcrumbs are not recommended to be put on the table, as they will take up a lot of space, place them on a separate table and serve bread as needed. As for alcoholic beverages, they should be placed closer to the center, in different places along the center line of the New Year's table. Wines, not counting champagne, put already uncorked. Place large and small plates at the same distance from each other. Serving the festive table should have the elegance, attractiveness and maximum comfort for the guests.
Colors
In addition to style, you need to decide on the color scheme of the banquet table. Traditional and familiar New Year shades are considered to be saturated, natural and natural colors: white, green, red, blue, gold and silver. In the eastern calendar, the next year will be the year of the Dragon, so the fire colors will be relevant.
Dishes
For the New Year's banquet, you always need to use the service. For each guest or family member, it is necessary to put a small table canteen, place a snack plate on it, and put the pie on it from the left. The knife is placed near the small plate on the right, so that it looks pointed toward the plate. A fork, with a concave side up, is placed to the left. Before each plate, in the form of a semicircle, it is necessary to arrange glasses and glasses. They should be arranged in the following order: a glass for juice and drinks, a glass for sparkling wine (champagne), a special wine glass for red wine, a glass for fortified drinks (vodka, cognac). By the way, cutlery should be 2 centimeters from the edge of the table, the distance between adjacent plates to be 60-80 centimeters.
Tablecloth
What not to say, namely the tablecloth is the basis of all the serving. Here you can try a lot of options, for example, starting from a white linen tablecloth, to a monochrome green or red, and on top of it a less harmonious shade, and ending with a tablecloth with festive drawings. The main thing here is a matter of taste and imagination. On a fabric basis, you can fix a shiny foil or to a drapery to pin flowers from a paper that will give to a table of originality. The traditional option is usually considered to be a starched white tablecloth, on which the fold, which runs along the table, is necessarily smoothed. Also, you always need to think about the unity of compositions, in which you can perfectly help napkins of large sizes, placed under cutlery.
Wipes
They are usually selected in the color of a tablecloth or in contrast to it. Festive table setting successfully includes tissue napkins with napkin rings. You can also fold the napkins to get the original shape. Not bad at the New Year's banquet will look napkins, folded in the shape of candles, as well as napkins rolled into a tube and tied with a festive ribbon with a magnificent bow.
Candles
What a New Year without this attribute, which gives us a feeling of magic and mystery. Successfully look on the New Year's table candles of different shapes. If you do not find such, you can wrap a regular candle in a spiral serpentine or a strip of foil. Remember, if your serving for a New Year's banquet includes many candles, it means that many candlesticks are needed. If they are not enough, you can show your imagination and make candlesticks yourself. For example, for small candles, a walnut shell can be used as a candlestick. We take the shell, fill it with plasticine, fix the candle, and around it we fasten dry little flowers. Using the same plasticine we attach the obtained candlestick to the thick paper. These mini candlesticks can be used by placing them next to the plate, as a decoration for cutlery.
New Year's nuances
What a New Year without a Christmas tree. Put a small Christmas tree on the table. It can even be a frame with the silhouette of a "green Christmas tree", "fir echibana" or spruce twigs. Make spruce bunches and weave in them red, gold or silver ribbons, decorating the bouquet with cinnamon sticks, walnut and even fresh flowers and put it between the cutlery. Also, small figurines of dragons will look good, for example, on napkins or between plates. For each member of the family or guest, you can prepare an individual postcard with a name and a wish and place it on a plate, for which he will sit.
Add all this can be with the help of serpentine and threads of tinsel. But remember that in everything there should be a measure. Therefore, do not overdo it with ornaments. After all, the very decoration of the festive New Year's table should carry a feeling of coziness and raise the mood to all those around. And the final touch in the festive table will be the New Year's menu. Do not be afraid to experiment, decorating dishes and showing all your imagination. This approach to the holiday will certainly give you and your family the most vivid impression of the New Year! Good luck to you!