Informal Dinner Seating



The seating arrangements at an informal dinner follow much the same type of pattern as at a formal one, but they are more flexible. Although, thought should be put into the seating arrangements when the guest list is drawn up, for it is quite possible to make or break a party by the congeniality of dinner partners. If there are about six to ten guests, the host sits at one end of the table opposite the hostess, who generally chooses the location nearest the kitchen for greater convenience if she must supervise the cook or go back and forth herself. If there are eight or twelve guests at the table, the hostess must move one seat to the left, putting the male guest of honor on her right opposite her husband. The lady who is guest of honor of course sits on the host's right. Among a group of friends dining together, there may be no particular guest of honor, so the hostess might choose the oldest lady present if there's sufficient difference in ages, or possibly one who hasn't visited her house for some time. Otherwise, the hostess may seat her guests according to how she feels the guests would enjoy their time best. If there's an uneven number of men and women, she must space them as evenly as possible, and she may keep her place at the end of the table unless doing so puts too many women in a row. Still, the hostess seats the honored guests at her right and her husband's.


Posted by Eugene Vodovoz at 9 January 2012, 4:53 PM
Categories: Etiquette
Tags: seating arrangements hostess guest of honor guests
 
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