For casual events, one needs just a basic table setting: a placemat, cutlery (fork, knife, and spoon), a dinner plate, a water or drinking glass, and a napkin.

Cloth napkins are reusable and can be customized to the rest of your table setting. You can stay simple and go with a set of 12 orange napkins from Amazon or go with a harvest plaid set from Wayfair.

For the casual setting, you'll need dinner and salad plates, soup bowl, napkin, dinner fork, dinner knife, soup spoon, water glass, and wine glass. Arrange each item appropriately.

Table setting: formal or casual? A white dining room with a table set for Christmas dinner. There is a red and white striped table cloth, red placemats, and christmas tree napkins folded on the table.

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An expert explains how to set a table and lay out a proper table setting, no matter whether you're hosting an everyday, casual, or formal occasion.

Because creating a casual table setting doesn't have to be expensive nor does it have involve family heirloom china, people only are limited by their imaginations. "The sky's the limit," Welte says.