Invite spring to your Easter dinner table
Decorate with pastels and flowers
Think past the muck of late March and ahead a few weeks for inspiration for an Easter table setting. Create a spring theme by layering pastel colours, floral prints and bouquets of blooms.
For table linens, borrow the yellow, turquoise and melon-coloured sherbet tones from this season’s fashion colours and pair them with fresh flowers and trailing vines.
Bring in bunches of budding branches, such as cherry blossoms, pussy willows or yellow-blossomed forsythia and set them in a tall vase on a side table. Fill diminutive six-ounce soft-drink bottles with individual blossoms — tulips, daffodils or ranunculus, for example.
Not into florals? For the dinner table centrepiece, set a row of twiggy bird’s nests along the middle of the table and line them with green moss and an assortment of real eggs: speckled quail, sand-coloured guinea hen eggs and pale blue duck eggs.
Or transplant storebought potted herbs into small clay pots and stand one at each place setting.
We found beautiful white dinner and dessert plates with scalloped rims, brightly-coloured patterned Asian bowls, yellow damask-print napkins and handmade turquoise pottery coasters from Anthropologie (anthropologie.com). We layered them with turquoise embossed dinner plates, also from Anthropologie.
Our yellow linen tablecloth is from Crate & Barrel (crateandbarrel.ca). So is the moss we used to line the birds’ nests, and the yellow luncheon plates.
We went to Indigo (indigo. ca) for decorative birds’ nests and for green stampedglass drinking goblets and shallow Portuguese bowls in matte yellow.