What do food, fancy plates and flowers have in common? They’re all sensational for an Easter table setting!
If you’re coming up short on ideas for your Easter table, or need inspiration for that final touch, there are many ways to set a showstopper.
Create a design that will make loved ones feel welcomed and delighted. Feel free to incorporate appetizers or desserts into your design. Pull out your spring-colored china or hit the vintage shop for new treasures. Display a complete set or pieces that are mismatched and marvelous. Bring some of the season’s best blossoms into the setting as well.
1. Design your own garden centerpiece
Gather a medium-sized wood or metal tray, some wheatgrass (available at many nurseries), a handful of your favorite cut blooms and floral selections filled with water. Trim the wheatgrass with gardening tools or scissors so it fits perfectly on your tray. Place the flower stems inside of the floral selections and then press the picks down into the grass. Arrange a monochromatic garden centerpiece or one that bursts with color.
2. Fill perfume bottles with flowers
Raid your bathroom or your nearest flea market to come up with statement perfume bottles for an Easter table flower display. These vessels, while always beautiful, take on new life when paired with spring’s botanical bounty.
3. Make tulip napkin holders
Tie fresh tulips to folded napkins with stringto make a simply sensational decoration for each guest at your table. Let guests take the blooms home after the meal or invite them to make a donation to to a retirement home or hospital.
4. Take the Easter table outdoors
Set up your patio table with scattered citrus fruits or yellow and orange flower arrangements for a refreshing Easter table display. Don’t have a patio set? Bring your kitchen or dining set up outside and enjoy the change of scenery.
5. Fill each plate with a spring flatbread
Who better to turn to for Easter table setting ideas than Martha Stewart? Her recipe for Julie’s Flatbread produces hors d’oeuvres that are divine enough to display as decor. Make these palm-sized flatbreads and set them on appetizer plates just before guests arrive. As a delicious touch, adorn the table with a bottle of organic extra virgin olive oil.
6. Dress the table with dessert
You put so much effort into your Easter food, why not let everyone admire it for as long as possible? We love the idea of having a carrot cake-filled martini glass at each place setting. Make your carrot cake ahead of time and assemble inglasses shortly before your gathering. Fill each martini glass a quarter of the way with crumbled carrot cake. Add cream cheese frosting to the halfway mark, and then repeat with another layer of cake and frosting. Set aside some frosting and tint with natural food coloring to make an orange and green carrot design for the top.
As you think about these Easter table ideas and possibly others, remember that setting a space for joy and celebration is most important. The food, fancy plates, flowers and other decor should simply be means of expressing and sharing the beauty of the world.