Napkin Folds
One way to achieve an elegant table look for your events
especially if you are a conscious consumer is to create
beautiful napkin folds for your elegant table. Many times
a napkin fold will enhance your table décor. By
placing a contrasting colored ribbon or flower on a
specialty folded napkin will add to the wow factor of your
elegant table.
My philosophy is when the napkin is part of the table
décor, I will have it placed in the center of the
place setting with the silverware on either side in their
proper placements. You can also create menu cards for your
dinner parties and place them in a folded napkin that has
been specially folded to hold the menu. Below are some
instructions and pictures for a few different napkin folds.
Pocket Fold - The Most Popular Fold at A Wynning Event
1. Take an 18" to 24" square linen dinner napkin
(preferably one that is new or starched) and lay it flat on
the table.
2. Then 3" from the bottom fold the dinner napkin up so
that you still have the same width but the napkin is now 3"
shorter.
3. Taking that bottom portion that is folded, fold it over
again 3".
4. Now fold the top edge underneath the napkin 2" so now
the dinner napkin has a folded edge on top.
5. Fold the right edge under the napkin and then the left
edge under the dinner napkin so that now the napkin is
folded in thirds.
6. You may then want to place a flower in the pocket or the
dinner menu printed on 5 ½" X 7" cardstock or your
silverware.
Tuxedo Fold
1. Take an 18" to 24" square cloth napkin (preferably one
that is new or starched) and lay it flat on the table.
2. Fold the cloth napkin in half widthwise and then in half
lengthwise so now the napkin is in quarters with the open
quarter at the top left side of the napkin.
3. Then roll the first layer of the cloth napkin toward you
to so the top left corner has now met the right lower
corner.
4. Fold the second layer toward you and tuck it under the
first layer. The upper left corner of the napkin should be
about halfway under the first layer.
5. Take the next layer of the cloth napkin and fold it away
from you and tuck the upper left corner about one third of
the way under the second layer.
6. Then fold the right and left side edges to the center
back.
7. You may then want to place a flower or silverware in the
first fold.
Bouquet Tie
1. Take an 18" to 24" square linen napkin (preferably one
that is new or starched) and lay it flat on the table.
2. Then fold it into triangle with the point of the
triangle facing on the top and the hypotenuse on the bottom.
3. Take the outside corners and bring them to top corner to
make a diamond.
4. Grab the linen napkin by the middle, gather it and then
tie it with ribbon.
5. You may want to place a flower in the top portion of the
gather.
Butterfly or Fan
1. Take an 18" to 24" square linen napkin (preferably one
that is new or starched) and lay it flat on the table.
2. Then start a fold about an 1" to 1½" wide down
from the top and fold the linen napkin towards you.
3. Flip the napkin over and make the same size fold this
time from the bottom portion of the napkin and fold away
from you.
4. Continue to repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have
completely folded the napkin.
5. Keeping it pinched in the center, tie with a ribbon and
then fan out the edges.
In terms of event set-up time and folding napkins, most
often at A Wynning Event I include this task as part of the
scope of work for the florist that I hire. I obtain the
napkins ahead of time from the rental company and deliver
them to my florist. They then fold the napkins, bring them
to site and place them at the table. It is truly amazing
what a difference a flower and a special napkin fold can
make at the table.
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Andrea Wyn is a marketing and special event planner with
over 15 years of special event industry experience. For the
past ten years, she has been the Awards Event Supervisor
for the Screen Actors Guild Awards(R). She holds an MBA
from the University of Chicago and a BA from UCLA. To
Twitter her about events and learn more about special
events and social media then go to
http://www.awynningevent.com
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