There are many types of events in which we have to behave like perfect hosts: a pizza night with friends, a barbecue in the garden, a pool party, a game day in which our teammates come to see the football to our house, the day of the poker game with old acquaintances, Christmas dinners, a family birthday party, the celebration of a communion there are many occasions in which over the years we will have to receive people and serve guests correctly.
Becoming a perfect host is not always easy. In fact, many people end up very stressed when they have to take care of the guests, prepare the food, make sure everything is in its correct place and make everything go smoothly. If this is your case, don’t worry, we want to help you so that you learn to serve guests in the best possible way. If you know a few tricks, serving your guests can be much easier and even entertaining. You will see how, very soon, you end up making competitions with the rest of the family and friends so that it is your home that serves to receive everyone and have a pleasant time. Let’s see in the next step by step how we can achieve it. Let’s get started!
What do you need to serve guests?
To know how to attend guests we are going to need
- Patience
- Be calm and relaxed
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- Heed our advice and have plenty of parties to invite guests to try
Instructions for serving guests
Step by step to know how to attend guests
- Properly prepare the space in the house where you are going to spend the evening and where you will attend to your guests. If you have a very large space where you can gather all the people you will receive, the ideal is to group the space into small portions, because that is the way people act in meetings. For example, you can place small tables where people can support their drinks and chat in a relaxed way. However, if the space you have is rather small, we recommend that you clear it of furniture as much as possible to have more space to serve guests. Remove the largest pieces and store them in another room.
- Keep all the valuables you don’t want broken. Do you remember that precious tableware that you have and that you inherited from your great-grandmother or the beautiful memories of that trip you took with your family? Well, keep them out of sight of the guests so they don’t accidentally break in the middle of the party. The best way to ensure that your valuables (whether sentimental or financial) do not suffer any damage is to save them.
- When you already have the layout clear, it doesn’t hurt to clean that space. Can you imagine arriving at a place where you have been invited and everything is upside down? This does not allow you to be exactly comfortable. Avoid this from happening when you are going to receive your own guests yourself. Avoid dust, vacuum and scrub the floors and clean the furniture so that everything is perfect.
- If there are several spaces on which to serve appetizers, do not forget to decorate them appropriately. There are many special shops to celebrate parties of all kinds where you can find a multitude of accessories to decorate the tables. For example, if you want to have a party with a certain country air, you can put red vichy tablecloths on all the tables and put small jars in the shape of a watering can where you can place some fresh flowers to make the contrast more beautiful. Don’t forget to put napkins on each of your tables and chopsticks. Your guests will thank you.
- Do not stay only in the decoration of the tables and expand it to the rest of the room. You can do beautiful things on the walls, put garlands, hang balloons and a multitude of ideas that you can think of. Ideally, you should adapt the decoration to the event you are going to celebrate and if it does not have a specific theme, create it yourself! For example, if you are preparing a birthday in which the main dish is going to be pizza, you can use images of ninja turtles to decorate your spaces. Also add cupcakes with radioactive colors for dessert and give your props a more fun point with fake sewers that you have been able to design yourself on cardboard boxes.
- Liven up the party with some music. It never hurts to put on a nice melody to accompany your guests. If you have a very large space to invite, you can choose to leave a kind of dance floor free and increase the rhythm of the music as the hours go by. Do not forget to respond to requests from the guests and put the songs that they like the most.
Tips for serving guests
One last tip to know how to serve guests
Don’t forget to keep some fun board games on hand or create your own. Oddly enough, the chair game is still a hit even with older people. If you are of a college age, you will surely love drinking games. Be careful with them and do not go overboard. You can mix them with the typical game of “kiss, dare or truth”. You’ll see how new couples come out of your party. And above all, don’t forget to have fun too!