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2. If you are organizing a formal banquet
or a wedding banquet then you will
probably lay the table in the Russian
style as it is considered the most
formal.

3. The first thing to start with is the service
plate. This should be placed directly in
front of the dining chair. The rest of the
plates should then be set at an equal
distance around the table. Ideally this
should be about 2 feet to allow plenty of
elbow room. A soup bowl should then be
placed on top of the service plate.

4. You are then ready to move onto the
cutlery. To the left of the service plate
moving outwards from the plate should
be placed a salad fork, then a dinner
fork and finally a fish fork. To the right of
the service plate, again moving
outwards from the service plate should
be placed a dinner knife, fish knife and
then a soup spoon.

5. The blades of the knives should be
pointing towards the service plate.
Above the plate place a cake fork with
the handle pointing towards the left and
finally above the cake fork place a
desert spoon with the handle pointing
towards the right.

6. The bread plate should then be placed
about the forks and a butter knife placed
on it. The butter knife blade should be
placed so that it is pointing towards the
plate.

7. You are now ready to move onto the
glasses. The three main glasses are a water
glass, a white wine glass and a red wine
glass. However on some occasions there
may be a vodka toast as well in which case
a vodka glass should also be laid. Start with
the water glass which should be placed to
the right of the desert spoon. It should be
arranged so that it is above the dinner knife.
To the right of this you should place the
white wine glass and the right of this you
should put the red wine glass. Napkins
should be placed in the soup bowl.

8. One of the idiosyncrasies of the Russian
style of table setting is that every place
setting has their own salt and pepper
shaker, so these should be placed
above each setting. If you are using
them, flower arrangements should be
placed at intervals along the table.

9. Banquets and weddings are occasions
when there are a large number of
guests. This means a lot of crockery,
cutlery and glass. The best way of
acquiring these is to use a professional
supplier of crockery such as Churchill
Crockery. They have a large choice of
ranges and you can easily buy the
quantities you need.
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