Welcome! If you are coming from Sand & Sisal, I’m so glad you’re here! Kim wowed us all with that gorgeous aqua & yellow table setting, she is so talented! I'm sharing how to host a beautiful Easter Brunch.
Today, I’m joining some of the most talented bloggers I know for the Styled + Set Holiday Easter Entertaining Blog Tour hosted by Lory. I'll take you to all the other bloggers who are part of this beautiful Easter Tour at the end of this post so that you can see all of their beautiful inspiration.
Easter is such a happy holiday, it's a date on the calendar I so look forward to. It celebrates the Resurrection. Spring. and all that is Fresh and Renewed.
Easter is the perfect time to celebrate the holiday and spring weather with a delicious brunch, outside in the garden. We have an annual Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch at our house for our closest family and friends, and anyone else who wants to join the spring fun!
This year I want to use some of the beautiful French tablecloths we just received for FrenchGardenHouse, I chose this beautiful French print with lavenders and purples.
Designing the tables with a vintage, modern look was my goal. I love combining antiques with new, silver with rough French clay pots, gold with black.
It's the unexpected "gathered" table settings that make tables elegant, yet casual.
For the centerpieces, I wanted something lush with the fresh, pastel flowers of spring.
In the center of antique silver serving trays, I placed old wicker florist vases - then just filled in the space around the baskets with old, antique French clay pots, a nest with little quail eggs, and real garden plants.
I covered some parts with planting moss from the garden center. So easy. And fast!
Inside the vases, I used big spring pastel colored flowers, soft pink peach roses, lavender and pink wax flowers, big, blowsy petal pink peonies and light purple hydrangeas. I love nothing more than to gather big bunches of gorgeous flowers at the flower market.
I admit to a slight flower obsession, do you have that?
I cheated nature by adding three large faux pink blossom stems to each arrangement! {see them in the first photo by the gingko tree.}
Drawing inspiration from the tablecloths, I wanted to create a fun, polished brunch setting.
I layered contemporary black plates over inexpensive gold chargers, and topped each setting off with these beautiful vintage cream plates with lavender floral baskets.
The effect of this gathered table-scape is worthy of the traditional Easter celebration, but has a modern twist!
I used my new favorite napkins, they have linen stripes with a sweet ruffle, at each setting.
For this table, I printed out my menu, folded it in half, and threaded a vintage velvet lavender ribbon through both sides, so that the menu became an "envelope" with the napkin inside.
At each placesetting, I filled little {tiny, really} antique glasses rimmed in gold with some white crinkle shred and added pastel malted eggs.
And decided to tie the mother-of-pearl flatware with the same lavender vintage velvet ribbon, and tucked in a sprig of wax flower.
In spring, the more flowers, the better!
A French water glass and Mimosa or Champagne goblet completes each setting.
Spring arrived already, but it's the Easter weekend ahead that makes it "real" for me.
{Speaking of real, I waited and waited for a sunny afternoon to do this photoshoot. Then dashed in the garden, set up two tables, and prayed the rainclouds would wait..wait...wait...until I was done! They did, just as I folded the last chair the raindrops appeared.}
I'm welcoming spring with wide open arms!
And can't wait for all the flowers to show off their dazzling selves in the borders, my little people poking through the garden plants in search of eggs to gather in their baskets, and celebrating all that is Easter with family and friends.
Whether you are celebrating Easter, Passover, or the advent of Spring, I wish you much joy this season!
Please go visit my friend Yvonne at StoneGable. She has the cutest bunny placecard for you!
and don't miss these other inspirational friends...
Monday's Posts
Designthusiasm | Maison de Pax | So Much Better With Age | Cedar Hill Farmhouse Driven by Decor | French Country Cottage | Sunny Side Up
Tuesday's Posts:
Shabbyfufu | Zevy Joy | Randi Garrett Design Life on Virginia Street | ZDesign at Home | Julie Blanner
Wednesday's Posts:
Ella Claire | Bless'er House | Design Dining and Diapers Kelley Nan | The Wood Grain Cottage | On Sutton Place
Thursday's Posts:
StoneGable | Decor Gold Designs | CitrineLiving Sand and Sisal | FrenchGardenHouse
Coming Friday:
Eleven Gables | My Soulful Home | Maison de Cinq Finding Home Farms | Fashionable Hostess
Friday's Posts:
Eleven Gables | My Soulful Home | Maison de Cinq | Finding Home Farms
WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR EASTER? PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH US!
24 comments
Thank you Tamara! We are lucky that we almost always are able to have brunch in the garden for Easter. Love being on this tour with you!
Teddee, thank you so much! I used to sell the ribbon on FrenchGardenHouse.com. but it sold out immediately. For once, I was smart enough to keep some for myself. Happy Spring!
Stunning tablescape! How lucky your guests will be! I love that you also posted the menu. This is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing!
Lidy, I am absolutely in love with this setting! How gorgeous, every detail! That tablecloth is amazing!! Wish we had warm enough weather here to do this for Easter!
what a beautiful table setting you have set for an Easter brunch…in the garden with fresh air and pretty surroundings..
Your table setting is no less then stunning my friend, the centerpiece is pretty and fresh, oh my but the tablecloth is just magnificent…can you tell I just love it all….
Smiles~~
Maritza
What a lovely idea to have Easter lunch outside surrounded by the birds and flowers but sadly, even in April its just not QUITE warm enough or weather stable enough to consider such an idea where I live. Even in May I’m not sure if I would want to count on it. In my area my great-grandmother always said do NOT plant annuals until after Mother’s Day.
However, it does manage to get close enough at times for a person to hold their breath to see what’s going to happen. My mother was born on Mother’s Day so every year it’s always within two or three at the most days from the date, some years right on Mother’s Day and it would be lovely to have “her” day (we always do both birthday and Mother’s Day on that Sunday) outside for once. I’ll have to see what they predict for this year. Your table is just lovely and such an INSPIRATION! Thank you.
I love the edginess of the black and gold with the vintage floral plates and need to remember that trick with all of my antique floral porcelain. Would love to know the source of that fabulous mauve velvet ribbon!
Lidy, your Easter table is breathtaking! The color palette is so unexpected and, yet, so sophisticated and interesting. How wonderful to be a guest at your table and in your garden. I think you need to share your recipe for the arugula and roasted grape salad, as it sounds devine. Your blog this whole week has been a feast for the senses, but, it always is. Thanks so much for sharing you gift.
Thank you ,dear Lidy, for setting a place for us ! Recently I bought a gorgeous lavender sparkling soda by Lorina that would also look nice with your beautiful tablecloth. I found it at world Market but also saw it in the grocery store. I am always so inspired by the love and beauty you impart. I also want to thank you for introducing Paris in Bloom. I am sending my 5th one to a friend today for her birthday ! Merci, mon ami . Xox,m
Easter is one of my favorite celebrations, and this setting is so beautiful and inviting. Anyone would feel very special and pampered at this table!