You Could Win These Menu Cards and Place Cards!
Photo: Ralph Anderson
If you haven’t noticed, we are big fans of fine stationery and pretty handwriting. So of course we believe in the gracious notion of matching place cards and a menu card written out in your best cursive (Yes, you can remember how to make a proper capital F!) We’ve partnered with one of our favorite stationery companies, Dallas’ Bell’Invito to give away a set of 10 matching menu and place cards that we featured in November’s Southern Made.
To win the set, tell us in the comments section below, what is no table setting complete without? The contest begins now and ends November 30. Click here for official rules.
Get writing!
Other giveaways from the November issue:
Win a Pewter Coffee Service from Tennessee Pewter
Win an Artisan Board from Vintage at Heart
Win a Serving Bowl from Louisville Stoneware
Win Hand-Painted Table Linens from Oxford & Company
Win a Custom Carving Set from Blackwell Knives
No table setting is complete without greenery or flowers!!! I don’t mean you have to buy them – I just cut ivy, magnolia branches or privet from my yard if nothing’s blooming!!
Cloth napkins and NEVER plastic plates, cups, silverware!
A decorative centerpiece
An event-appropriate centerpiece!
No table setting is complete without a beverage glass for our sweet tea! Also, when I set our dinner table, no matter how fancy or casual, I like to put out real butter on a pretty dish for our rolls and biscuits. My family says it makes them feel like they are at a restaurant, and I think it shows warm hospitality to our guests!
The Perfect Center Piece., This is the first Thanksgiving and Christmas Gathering in our new home. And we are looking forward too the Hoilday’s
No table setting is complete with out beautiful table cloth and napkins, charger, dinner plate, salad plate, bowl, water goblet, red wine glass, white wine glass and don’t forget the best silverware.
A must have perfect table setting is the perfect
color table linen(s) with lovely cloth/linen napkins
while utilizing napkin rings that match accordingly.
Fresh, fragrant flowers.
a festive floral arrangement!
Lots of sparkling glass and candles, real ones, lit!
Basket of biscuits
The perfect table setting has something you know your guest loves. For instance, if your guest is from Mississippi and you know she misses it, try to find magnolias or even the leaves to use as decoration. If your guest has candles all around her house, you know she loves them. Place a couple of unscented candles on the table. Anything to make your guests feel more welcome, at home and know you gave extra thought is perfect.
A glass of sweet iced tea.
Our table setting is never complete without my Grandmother’s china. It has been used every thanksgiving and Christmas for over 50 years.
A pitcher of sweet tea with carafes on the table for plenty of refills!
Linen napkins!
a napkin…my pregnant belly somehow always gets in the middle of my fork and my mouth (:
No table setting is complete without FOOD!
A beautiful centerpiece!
[...] Other giveaways from the November issue: Win a Pewter Coffee Service from Tennessee Pewter Win an Artisan Board from Vintage at Heart Win a Serving Bowl from Louisville Stoneware Win Hand-Painted Table Linens from Oxford & Company Win a Custom Carving Set from Blackwell Knives Win a Menu and Place Card Set from Bell’Invito [...]
[...] Hand-Painted Table Linens from Oxford & Company Win a Custom Carving Set from Blackwell Knives Win a Menu and Place Card Set from Bell’Invito Win Pewter Candle Sticks from ASL [...]
The table isn’t complete without a napkin with fork on top to the left of the plate, knife edge on the right with the blade facing away from the dish and spoon to the right of that. With kids, just getting the silver near the plate is good enough.
Condiments! The more the merrier, whether sauce, chutney or relish! The southern table must have that little extra that complements the meal!
The table setting isn’t complete for me, personally, until special pieces my husband and I inherited are out – silver serving utensils, colored glass serving bowls, a wonderfully worn trivet, and depression glass goblets.
When it comes to table settings in general, I always look to the drinkware! The perfect goblet – right color, right size, right design – can make or break the completed look.
No table setting is complete without menu cards and place cards. I use them even when I am setting a simple table for my family. When each guest opens up the place card I have set in the table, they can read a special note of encouragement written especially for them. I absolutely love this set!
I love to treat each guest with a small bud vase with fresh fragrant flowers. Just a simple and personal touch that they can take with them.
Family and friends, laughter and conversation!
No table setting is complete without a dessert fork- life’s too sweet to leave it out!