• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
Serving Up Southern

Serving Up Southern

  • Simple Home
    • Crafts & DIY’s
    • Decor
    • Homemaking
    • Laundry
    • Gardening
  • Recipe Box
  • Simple Life
    • At Home – Simple Southern Sundays
    • Everyday Life
    • Faith
    • Holidays/Seasonal
      • Valentine’s Day
      • Easter
      • 4th of July
      • Fall Recipes
      • Thanksgiving
      • Christmas
Home | Hospitality | Hospitality – How To Serve Guests In Your Home

Hospitality – How To Serve Guests In Your Home

By Kim | 1 Comment | this post may contain affiliate links. Please read my Disclosure here.

51shares
  • Share
  • Email

Hospitality – How To Serve Guests In Your Home | In this post see how to prepare for your guest and serve in your home. 

 

Today, I am discussing How To Serve Guests In Your Home. If you have been following along with my hospitality series you have read:

How To Practice Practical Hospitality:

  • Where I talk about the art of practicing hospitality and why it’s important for Christians to pursue.

Hospitality – How To Have A Hospitable Home:

  • Where I discuss how to prepare your home to be warm, welcoming and inviting for your guest. Creating a space where people naturally want to linger.

White metal pitcher full of eucalyptus sitting on a vintage metal stool with a large round breadboard hanging in the background.

I asked four friends this question, “What makes you feel at home when you’re visiting someone’s house for an afternoon or evening meal?”. Here are their answers:

  • Relaxed conversation
  • Laughter
  • Casual, informal atmosphere
  • Gathering around the table
  • Everyday  dishes
  • Simple food
  • Feeling free to take your shoes off
  • Knowing the host is enjoying the occasion and not overdoing it
  • A relaxed host

I love their answers! Don’t you? And, the best thing about it is that they are all 100% doable. There’s not one fancy, elegant, or extravagant thing listed there. While you certainly want to put our best foot forward, it’s nice not to feel like you have to go to extremes every time you want to have a guest in your home. It appears that people are far more comfortable with the every day you in your everyday elements.

A rustic place setting with a white plate and a mason jar on a wooden board.

How To Serve Guests In Your Home:

  1. Be relaxed! When you are, your guests will be too. If you are uptight as you host, they will feel it and become uncomfortable.
  2. Serve a simple meal! Comfort food fits the bill great here. Prepare simple meals that you are familiar with cooking and are your family favorites. Now is probably not the best time to try out that recipe you just found on Pinterest.
  3. Use your everyday dishes. This lets people know that this is indeed a relaxed, casual meal.
  4. After you have gathered around the table and enjoyed the meal linger awhile. Ask those intentional questions that help you get to know someone on a deeper level. Share stories about yourself. Laugh together at each other’s stories.
  5. Once the dishes are cleared, go the family/living room get comfortable, kick off their shoes, and linger some more. Give your guests the opportunity to share themselves with you in relaxed conversation. As you slowly get to know someone, barriers are broken down, and pathways of communication are opened. Great friendships are formed when those two things happen.

Once these things start happening in your home, you will be well on your way to experiencing the joy of hospitality.

Here are four books on hospitality that I plan on reading.

Be sure and check out my other posts in the series on hospitality:

How To Practice Practical Hospitality

Hospitality – How To Have A Hospitable Home

Hospitality – How To Serve Guests In Your Home (You are here!)

pin it for later >>>
White metal pitcher full of eucalyptus sitting on a vintage metal stool with a large round breadboard hanging in the background.

I would love for you to tell us how you go about making your guest feel welcome in your home in the comments below.

 

51shares
  • Share
  • Email

Filed Under: Homemaking, Hospitality

subscribe to get the latest

By subscribing to our newsletter, you consent to receive new post updates and occasional promotional emails related to our company.

Previous Post: « Hospitality – How To Have A Hospitable Home
Next Post: Homestyle Gathering 2 | Your Homekeeping Destination »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Comments

  1. joyce says

    January 19, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    Indeed, so very doable! Very practical information, Kim!

    Reply

Primary Sidebar

Hey! It is nice to meet you!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Never miss a post

Search by Category

Footer

let’s stay connected!

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

join our community

copyright & sharing of content

I love it when you share! Please keep in mind that all images and written content on this site are property of Serving Up Southern. Feel free to use ONE of my photos (with watermark) provided that credit is given to this blog with a link back to my original post. Absolutely no alterations of photos are permitted, which includes editing, text overlays, cropping, or removing any watermarks. All printables (free or otherwise) are for personal use only and may not be sold, altered, or uploaded to another site. Do not use recipe or project instructions, please link back to original post. Please feel free to pin away: Pinning is always welcomed and very much appreciated (if a source is given outside of this website, please pin from the original source out of courtesy to the owner of the image).

amazon affiliate disclosure

Serving Up Southern is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No connected account.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to connect an account.

Copyright © 2021 by Serving Up Southern · Privacy Policy

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

SAVE & ACCEPT