diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6204cc1..63b92f3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,16 +45,15 @@ to check for typos. [See example in the documentation][strict].
 
 ### Contextualized errors
 
-When most decoding errors occur, go-toml returns [`DecodeError`][decode-err]),
+When most decoding errors occur, go-toml returns [`DecodeError`][decode-err],
 which contains a human readable contextualized version of the error. For
 example:
 
 ```
-2| key1 = "value1"
-3| key2 = "missing2"
- | ~~~~ missing field
-4| key3 = "missing3"
-5| key4 = "value4"
+1| [server]
+2| path = 100
+ |        ~~~ cannot decode TOML integer into struct field toml_test.Server.Path of type string
+3| port = 50
 ```
 
 [decode-err]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2#DecodeError
@@ -73,6 +72,26 @@ representation.
 [tlt]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2#LocalTime
 [tldt]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2#LocalDateTime
 
+### Commented config
+
+Since TOML is often used for configuration files, go-toml can emit documents
+annotated with [comments and commented-out values][comments-example]. For
+example, it can generate the following file:
+
+```toml
+# Host IP to connect to.
+host = '127.0.0.1'
+# Port of the remote server.
+port = 4242
+
+# Encryption parameters (optional)
+# [TLS]
+# cipher = 'AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256'
+# version = 'TLS 1.3'
+```
+
+[comments-example]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2#example-Marshal-Commented
+
 ## Getting started
 
 Given the following struct, let's see how to read it and write it as TOML:
diff --git a/marshaler.go b/marshaler.go
index d8e3140e..6fe78533 100644
--- a/marshaler.go
+++ b/marshaler.go
@@ -541,6 +541,8 @@ func (enc *Encoder) encodeTableHeader(ctx encoderCtx, b []byte) ([]byte, error)
 
 	b = enc.encodeComment(ctx.indent, ctx.options.comment, b)
 
+	b = enc.commented(ctx.commented, b)
+
 	b = enc.indent(ctx.indent, b)
 
 	b = append(b, '[')
@@ -825,7 +827,6 @@ func (enc *Encoder) encodeTable(b []byte, ctx encoderCtx, t table) ([]byte, erro
 	}
 
 	if !ctx.skipTableHeader {
-		b = enc.commented(ctx.commented, b)
 		b, err = enc.encodeTableHeader(ctx, b)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
diff --git a/marshaler_test.go b/marshaler_test.go
index a8920a71..c4869c88 100644
--- a/marshaler_test.go
+++ b/marshaler_test.go
@@ -1592,3 +1592,37 @@ func ExampleMarshal_commented() {
 	// # input-file = ''
 	// # output-file = ''
 }
+
+func TestReadmeComments(t *testing.T) {
+	type TLS struct {
+		Cipher  string `toml:"cipher"`
+		Version string `toml:"version"`
+	}
+	type Config struct {
+		Host string `toml:"host" comment:"Host IP to connect to."`
+		Port int    `toml:"port" comment:"Port of the remote server."`
+		Tls  TLS    `toml:"TLS,commented" comment:"Encryption parameters (optional)"`
+	}
+	example := Config{
+		Host: "127.0.0.1",
+		Port: 4242,
+		Tls: TLS{
+			Cipher:  "AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256",
+			Version: "TLS 1.3",
+		},
+	}
+	out, err := toml.Marshal(example)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	expected := `# Host IP to connect to.
+host = '127.0.0.1'
+# Port of the remote server.
+port = 4242
+
+# Encryption parameters (optional)
+# [TLS]
+# cipher = 'AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256'
+# version = 'TLS 1.3'
+`
+	require.Equal(t, expected, string(out))
+}