How to Set Your Table This Summer for Your Next Dinner Party
I think if there is one thing that we can all agree on after being asked to stay in our homes for close to 3 months it’s this: creating a space that we love is extremely important to our well-being, sanity, inspiration, and overall happiness. Personally, our home went through many stages. At first, i used the extra time around the house to clean and organize. And then came the slump where i stopped caring because no one was coming over to see it anyways. I noticed a huge change in my mood, my focus on work, and my ability to be creative. So slowly but surely i’ve started to get our home under control again and i can already feel the weight lifting.
Things have started to open up slowly and a few of my close friends and I have been getting together. It’s given me a chance to create in our home again and I truly think it was what i was really missing all this time! So even though get togethers may be smaller and not as often this summer, I still think it’s going to be important for me (and probably a lot of you) to continue doing things that we love to keep some sort of normalcy in our lives.
This week we wanted to share a little inspiration for your next summer dinner party. Using a mix of bright whites, tropical foliage, and a pop of green, we set out to create a table that reminded us of our next getaway.
A favor that doubles as decor
The idea behind this tabletop was simple, let the flowers shine. But I can’t not have something interesting at each place setting… so I created these frames with quotes that could be taken home as favors. They created interest while still letting the flowers and other details shine through, literally.
Touches of gold kept the table feeling a bit more sophisticated but still casual placed next to rattan and linen elements.
how to recreate this flower combo
Start with a base of palm fronds and keep a few out to tuck in as accents later
Next add in your main flowers. I used both roses and anemones
Once you have a good amount of the flowers that you’d like to be the focal point, begin to add accent flowers to fill in the gaps. I used ranunculus and hellebore
Finally, add in a bit of “filler” greenery to make your arrangement full and lush. I added even more (shorter) palm fronds and a flowering brand
If you’d like, you can add dried accents to add movement like I did with the branches here. I wanted it to look a little more wild and this did the trick!
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Are you staying in and entertaining more or taking advantage of restaurants opening?
We will likely be doing more of this (at home) for now, but really can’t wait to get back to some sort of normal where going out is part of our routine again!
Images by Kimi Domino.
