Set the TABLE

Draw attention to your dining table with a few large paper decorations suspended overhead, then fill jugs and vases with fresh flowers, stack your plates and bowls and pile cupcakes on to pretty cake stands. Place a garland down the centre of the table and treat your guests to individual gifts.

Hanging daisy decorations, £3.50 each, Pipii. Talia dining chair (foreground), £95, Habitat. Stafford velvet dining chairs in Alchemilla, £325 each, Oka. Leaf-print tablecloth, £58, Sarah.k. ON TABLE wrapping paper (for gifts), £2 a roll, Spoon Home. Ribbon, from a selection, Jane Means. Pink Roses jug, £49.95; mugs, £14.95 each; cake stand, £39.95; plates, £17.95 each; Pink Hearts & Dots bowls, £19.95 each; Pink Hearts teapot, £59.95, all Emma Bridgewater. Mai green glass bud vase, £6.95, Graham & Green. Rabbit salt and pepper shakers, £50, Rockett St George. Pallo goblets, £30 for 4; Champagne saucers, £34 for 4; marble Champagne bucket, £45, all Oliver Bonas. White blossom garland (running along table), as before. Candleholders, £3 each; green candlesticks, £3.90 for 4, all Gisela Graham. Crinkle vase (with tulips), £35, Heal’s. ON CAKE STAND macarons, from a selection, Biscuiteers. Cupcakes, from a selection, Sainsbury’s. Lario napkins in Rose, £36 for 4, Designers Guild. Soleil napkin rings in Pink, £32 for 8, Sophie Conran. Fiddle cutlery set, £180 for 24 pieces, Heal’s. Broadwood’s Folly Rosé Brut, £14.99, Aldi