So back to the party:
As I mentioned initially, we did receive a hand written
response which was quite fun.
We had our menu and needed to set the table.
There are several sites which address the proper table setting. I did not
measure to be exact but it seems that no one thought to notice. Lucky this
time!!
For a proper place setting one must have a white
wine stem, claret stem and water glass. Then for the 9 course meal one needs a
soup bowl, a plate for the fish, plate for the beef, glass for the punch or
bowl for the gelatin, plate for the chicken, salad plate, desert plate and
cheese plate. Flatware includes a salad fork, dinner fork, dinner knife,
cutting knife, tea spoon, and soup spoon. Each place setting must also have a
name card and a menu card.
Because we have a miss-mash of stems, china and
flatware we had to scramble again for place settings. I went to the antique
stores on Sat but only found 4 stems, 2 of which matched. Since there were to
be only 8 of us the three new stems would be enough. We did have enough
flatware using our 2 sets, but only for dinner. There were not enough desert
spoons for everyone. We have ½ of a set of china, several place settings of Corning
in the RV and then some from a friend which gave us enough. Fortunately, the
rich would use several different styles of china in order to show that they had
so much money they could use which ever setting they wanted. We took comfort in
that.
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| The table is ready. Note the silver bell in front of the Lord Grantham's seat |
We have porcelain place cards that are easy to
clean for reuse but we had no menu cards. Very tacky for sure. But again no one called us
on it. Maybe our guests were just trying to be polite.
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