In my own life, I don't always set all of the utensils, glassware, and china out at the same time, as it takes a lot of room. I rarely invite enough guests to make place cards necessary. And I don't often serve both red and white wine so that both glasses would be needed.
In particular, I wait until we are ready for dessert to put out the dessert utensils because somehow a helpful guest always seems to clear them away with the main course setting! However, I was carefully educated about the placement of napkin, fork(s), plate(s), knife (knives), and soup spoon going from left to right as shown here.
We always wait on the dessert utensils, too. Although we have some friends who really like wine, so we'll often do a couple of different wine glasses (for red and white). Sometimes three, if we're starting with champagne! Always a fun thing to do. :-)
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