We already have the lip smacking thanksgiving recipes for you and now we bring ideas on how to set up the thanksgiving table to make the holiday meal an even more elaborate affair. The right table setup can make even the simplest of dishes look like an exquisite meal. After all if it appeals to our eyes, everything else usually falls in place – and this goes for food too.
Here are some tips on ways to decorate the thanksgiving dinner table.
Use Flowers and Floral Accessories
How to Set Table for Thanksgiving
Real, false or dry flowers can bring about the right ambience to your crockery layout. You can arrange them on the sides of plates or around the cutlery and table napkin. It is the easiest way to prep up the table. If you don’t want to go through the steps of arranging flowers on every individual plate or cutlery set then simply keep some flower vases on the serving table – it can’t get easier than that.
How to set Table for Thanksgiving Dinner
How to set Table for Thanksgiving Dinner with flowers
Thanksgiving Dinner Table Setting tips
Prettify the table with maple leaves
Thanksgiving Dinner Table Setting ideas
Maple leaves spell fall and thanksgiving like nothing else, therefore why don’t you include the pretty foliage in your thanksgiving table setting. They can be arranged beautifully on the plate, cutlery, on the table or around the eating ware. Go creative and think of interesting ways to decorate the table with these pretty little leaves. They can totally transform the dining area.
Thanksgiving Dinner Table set up with Maple Leaves
How to Set Table for Thanksgiving with Maple Leaves
Thanksgiving ideas How to Set Table
Thanksgiving ideas How to Set Table for Dinner
Candle light thanksgiving meal
Candle light thanksgiving meal
A candle light meal or dinner always evokes a special feeling, in fact nothing spruces up a celebration meal as much as a candle light one – so why not include candles in the table layout for thanksgiving. No one would complain, for sure! Keeping with the thanksgiving spirit, opt for candles in fall colors like yellow and orange.
Thanksgiving meal Candle light
Include real pumpkins or miniature ones in the decoration
It is thanksgiving time and you will be serving pumpkins in one form or the other during the meal. However, you can also include the pumpkins as part of the decor rather than just as the gastronomic delight. You can set them up in singles or multiples on the table or around the plates, in fact you should go ahead and experiment with the layout and keep it centered on the pumpkins.
Setting Table for Thanksgiving
How to Set Table for Thanksgiving day
The thanksgiving dinner shouldn’t only be about eating scrumptious pumpkin delicacies, it should also mean setting your table in the most beckoning manner to dazzle all your guests. On that note, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!
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