While eating the meal is my favorite part of Thanksgiving, I do look forward to designing a new tablescape each year. This year I put together a Gold and White Thanksgiving Tablescape. The place settings and decor was all either white or gold and the florals provided additional pops of color.
I mixed and matched items from three of my favorite stores: West Elm, World Market, and Target. The giant gold vase is actually a candle holder from Target. The gold chargers and wine glasses are both from World Market. The napkins and table runner came from West Elm.
The gold chargers were only $2.99 and they dress up the place settings. They are made of lacquer, so they are lightweight and won't chip.
I never have enough trivets, and they can be surprisingly expensive. I happened to stumble across slices of wood in the craft section at Target, and they are only $4.99 each. They gave the table a rustic look and functioned perfectly as trivets. My mom is having my father make some wooden trivets using wood from a tree in the yard he had to chop down. (It's funny being a city dweller and buying things like slices of wood).
I absolutely loved this year's floral arrangement. I mixed white ornament kale and orange roses with thistle, sage, some small white flowers, and some leafy filler flowers. I am not the biggest fan of roses, but the orange roses provided the perfect burst of fall color, and a touch of formality.
Instead of making traditional place cards, I tied some sage and greens together with a gift tag. It would be fun to do this with a mix of herbs that dinner guests can take home and use.
While I obviously plan and photograph these Thanksgiving recipes and tablescape well before the actual holiday, I do transport most of the Tablescape elements, along with fresh florals, with me to Maine for my family's Thanksgiving celebration.
If you want to see more tablescape ideas, you can follow links to last years Succulent and Air Plant Tablescape, and 2014's Glitter and Gold Tablescape.
