Thanksgiving Centerpiece Ideas For A Trendy Holiday Dinner
It’s that time of the year again. Outside, the trees have started their most beautiful show: the leaves turn from plain green to a whole palette of colors, then slowly fall.
The summer is finished, but it’s not a reason to let sadness surround you. Just look around! Fall is a smooth transition into winter. The temperatures go down, but if we look on the bright side, that also means that it’s time for our favorite jumpers and trench coats.
But most of it all, the fall season is the stage for a great party: Thanksgiving. It’s a whole feeling, an institution. Thanksgiving creates such important warm feelings towards people; We are grateful for what we have because there are other people that have less.
Thanksgiving is, therefore, a whole feeling, but here, we are going to focus on that special night: the Thanksgiving dinner.
It’s a very important part of it all! We prepare it several weeks in advance. The family will be reunited, a great meal is shared, and we forget the everyday life struggles for one magical night. But let’s get back to the preparation time. For the people hosting the night, that arrangement time might not be as magical, but can rather be quite stressful sometimes.
Making sure that the food is nice, that there is enough to drink for the whole night, and everybody leaves the place content. One more part of that night requires a lot of attention: the table decorations!
The dinner table is the center of attention of a Thanksgiving dinner. It reunites everyone around heart-warming food and good conversation. Therefore, it’s very important that the table looks amazing!
In order to do so, several parts of the decorations should be present: a nice tablecloth or table runner, some candles… but most and above all: the thanksgiving table decorations. The centerpiece, as its name mentions, is the heart of a Thanksgiving table’s decorations.
Don’t miss out on wowing your guests with these trendy centerpiece ideas
- The Floral type — Beautiful flowers as a centerpiece do not have to be simple and regular. Make it pop! Following the bright colors of autumn is a great option. Get some small yellow roses, orange and white roses and channel your imagination in decorating your table with these vivid flowers.
- The Antique box — Boxes are a great way to show all your decorative talents, in an easy and fun way. Get to a vintage market and find an old box. The romanticism of vintage lays in the fact that the objects carry an entire life and sometimes several ones with them. Vintage objects are real, they give emotions back just looking at them. Once you find a box that matches your emotions, and I trust you easily will simply fill it up with anything you like. Flowers, leaves, small objects that have meaning to you, candles, chocolate… Make it a little treasure box that your guests will look at with curiosity.
- The Vintage Glass bottles — Vintage again. Objects from a time when they were not always created at large amounts by a machine. A beautiful example is those water bottles that were so stunningly crafted. The blue color goes very well with amber. Look for glass vessels that match. Fill them with some with flowers or herbs — leftover sage from the kitchen fits the theme. You can even attach mini tags with your guests’ names using a white string.
- Seasonal Vegetables — Yes, you read right! Delicately spread vegetables can look very good in the center of your table. Fill out a row of small pumpkins curled into real leaves for example.
- Mood lighting — Of course, the candles themselves can sometimes be all you need. More ideas can make that light a source of calm and warmth. Surround them with floral decorations, spread nuts or coffee beans around them. Not only will they bring attention to them, but they will also fill the whole room of a hearty atmosphere.
You should now have enough ideas to have a memorable table. The possibilities are endless, and it’s a big chance that once you start the object search, you won’t want to stop. A table centerpiece gives life to the dinner table. Be creative, and your guests will talk about that one Thanksgiving dinner for a long time!
