On birthdays, there are always gatherings around a festive, lush table, which is bursting with a variety of snacks, desserts and hot dishes. However, you always want the birthday table to be truly festive. The news portal “Vtemu.by” in this article has prepared for you several ideas for designing and decorating a festive table for the name day.
Birthday table decoration with balloons
Balloons are a universal option for decorating any holiday for any occasion: be it New Year, Wedding, March 8, Valentine's Day, etc.
If you want to make an incredible impression on the birthday boy and his guests, then decorate the festive table with balloons.
If you have the opportunity to use balloons inflated with helium to decorate the table, then you can form lush bouquets from them, attach a weight to the ends of the threads and place them on the table. To prevent the weights from being visible, you can decorate them. For example, place them in bright gift boxes, beautiful vases or flower arrangements.
You can build real flower beds from balloons and place them on tables.
Casual decor
Settings are not only used for holidays. On weekdays, you can make meals more enjoyable by decorating your table simply and elegantly.
In everyday serving, exclude some accessories. If there is a beautiful oilcloth, that’s good, but you can do without it by placing a napkin under the plate.
You don’t have to use the bottom plate, leaving only the dishes for the food that will be served. It’s good if all the details are in the same style and color scheme. Place a spoon and a knife to the right of the plate, and a fork to the left. We place the glass in the upper right corner.
Place thinly sliced bread in a bread bin in the middle of the table. You don’t have to place the napkins separately for each set of dishes; just put them in a napkin holder. We also place the salt shaker, pepper shaker and butter in the center of the table.
Even in everyday life, a vase of flowers will not be superfluous.
Birthday table decoration with vases
If you want to add a romantic mood to your festive feast, just use fresh flowers and decorative vases to decorate the table.
You can place several vases of flowers in the center of the table or create luxurious floral arrangements.
Vases can be a variety of vessels, even ordinary glass bottles.
It is important that the flowers are in harmony with the overall decor style of the festive table: the color of the dishes, tablecloths, napkins, etc.
An unusual way to make decorative vases with your own hands is to use the most ordinary balloons and small glass jars. Simply stretch the ball onto a glass jar and cut off the excess.
How to decorate a table for the New Year
New Year is perhaps one of the most favorite holidays for both children and adults. In addition to decorating the house and the Christmas tree, it is important to think in advance about how to decorate the New Year's table, because it is the center of the entire evening. All relatives and close friends gather behind him and wish each other happiness and health in the new year. Therefore, it is so important to make the festive table beautiful, cozy and memorable.
- You need to start decorating the New Year's table by choosing a suitable tablecloth. Each New Year has its own symbol in the form of a specific animal, which, in turn, is suitable for certain colors. Therefore, before decorating the table for this holiday, it is recommended to learn more about the symbol of the New Year and the preferred shades. However, there are also win-win options, for example, a red tablecloth or red and green. You can also use a white tablecloth with various silver and blue shades.
- Setting the New Year's table is practically no different from any other holiday feast, except that on this day it is usually customary to take out your best sets and memorable cutlery. It is recommended not to clutter the central part of the table too much with hot dishes and salads, so that there is room for appetizers, cuttings and Christmas decorations.
- You can quickly and easily decorate your table with napkins. A napkin folded in the shape of a Christmas tree on a plate in front of each guest looks very original. This immediately gives the feast greater solemnity. Such a Christmas tree can be folded from either textile napkins or regular large paper ones. Cutlery can also be placed not on a regular napkin, but placed in a special pocket in the shape of Santa Claus or a Christmas reindeer. Cutlery can be decorated with beads or fir branches.
- Decorating a festive New Year's table with green pine branches is always stylish and appropriate. In addition, with minimal expenditure of effort and investment, you will be able to create an incredible design. Take spruce, juniper or fir branches and arrange them beautifully in the center of the festive table. Additionally, the resulting spruce garland can be decorated with balls or wrapped with lights. You can also place a small fir branch without decoration or with minimal holiday decoration on each guest's plate near the napkins and cutlery.
- Candles are another decoration for the New Year's table. For this holiday, you can use a variety of candles, which will be scattered or collected in a specific composition. Burning candles surrounded by fir branches look very impressive. From these simple materials you can build a beautiful composition in the center of the table: take a small wooden box, put spruce branches in it, decorate with small balls and cones, and then place candles.
- Vases with filling are another very bright decorative element that you can make with your own hands. To do this, you need to take any vases of various shapes and fill them with multi-colored New Year's balls, as well as beads. Such compositions can be made in one color scheme. In addition to balls, you can put cones, fir branches and garlands. You can make spectacular candlesticks in the same way. To do this, take shallow glass containers, place beads or small balls on the bottom and place a candle.
- You can make an even simpler, but no less beautiful element of decorating the New Year's table. To do this, cut out various snowflakes from plain white paper or white napkins and place white candles in glass jars filled with salt. As a result, you will get a real snow glade on your table.
- Decorating the table with fruit is another great idea. Oranges are suitable for this purpose. Take regular oranges and stick clove stars all over the peel in beautiful patterns. In the same way, you can make candlesticks from oranges, which are cut into two halves and peeled from the pulp.
- A beautiful tray with inverted glasses filled with bright New Year's balls inside and decorated with candles on top can be a chic composition in the center of the table.
- Don’t forget that you can decorate the table with snacks and other dishes. It is enough to make small sandwiches in the form of a symbol of the New Year or holiday attributes, and the holiday will definitely be amazing.
Decorating the birthday table with festive dishes
If you can call yourself an exquisite cook, then you will like this option for decorating a festive table for your birthday.
Try to decorate each dish in a special way so that it is a real work of art. An excellent decoration for the festive table will be: canapés, sandwiches, salads, pastries and cakes.
For the lazy, this option is suitable: decorate the holiday table with multi-colored candies in transparent vases.
Preparation and decoration of the festive table
So, you have chosen the place where the holiday will take place, and you are faced with the task of decorating the table not only beautifully, but also correctly. There are several steps through which we can achieve our goals.
Laying out the tablecloth
The tablecloth is one of the main elements of the holiday, because it plays a certain basic role and decorates the festive table. First you need to choose the appropriate color and design. Flowers, butterflies, gifts, or any other theme that you like can be painted on it.
One of the secrets that you can use is the size of the tablecloth. Experienced designers recommend buying it in such a size that it can hang from the festive table by about 20-30 cm. If the overhang is less than this size, the overall picture of the table will not be very attractive. And vice versa, when the overhang is more than 30 cm, guests sitting at the table will feel discomfort.
Decorate the table with plates
Again, depending on your taste and color, you can put traditional white plates on the tablecloth, or choose a colored option. According to the classic rules of beautiful table setting and decoration, it is recommended to place plates as follows:
- First comes the large serving plate.
- And at the end there is a small dessert plate for sweets and fruits.
Cutlery
Once the main plates are set, they are complemented by dinner sets. There are also some placement rules here, namely:
- On the right side of the plate we place a spoon and a knife.
- There will be forks on the left.
If desired, you can decorate the table with additional special forks and spoons for various dishes, but this is not at all necessary. It will be enough to use the standard set.
Arrangement of glasses and glasses
The choice of glasses and glasses depends on the wishes of the guests and what they will drink. According to ethics, glasses are placed a little higher from the plates on the right side from largest to smallest. These can be glasses for wine, water, champagne, or small glasses for strong drinks.
Decorate the table with napkins
You don’t have to take regular white napkins, because it’s still a holiday, and you can use beautiful artistic colored napkins. There are no special rules for arranging napkins. They can be under the appliances, in a glass of water, or you can make some interesting figure out of them.
Decor elements
The table decor is the finishing touch to complete the work. It can be decorated with a vase of flowers, interesting figures and other elements, the choice of which will depend on the general theme of the holiday in which it will take place.
Birthday table decoration with candles
In order to make your birthday celebration in an atmosphere of romance and tranquility, you can use decorative candles to decorate the festive table.
Candles can be in luxurious candlesticks, or tablet candles can be used that will float in glass containers with water and flowers.
You can also make candles with your own hands. Wax crayons and glass glasses are perfect for this craft. Melt the wax crayons and pour them in layers into a glass container, don’t forget to install the wick first.
How to decorate a table for an anniversary
Any anniversary, be it 20, 30 or 50 years, requires additional costs when decorating a birthday table. The older a person is, the richer the serving and decoration should look, in which it is better to adhere to a single color style for an anniversary. Red color will go well with gold, black and white. Or, as an alternative, red towels can be placed under white plates, next to this can be white napkins with gold edges, a tablecloth in white, and decorations in black. This combination is always a classic
On the anniversary, there must be small decorations of the room and table, which add style, wealth and give a good mood to the celebration.
Birthday table decoration with napkins
To decorate your holiday table, you can use paper or fabric napkins. If you wish, you can fold unusual compositions from napkins.
You can also use decorative bracelets, clips and brooches to decorate table napkins.
How to fold napkins? How to decorate a table with napkins?
Sweet table decoration
Usually, a sweet table means a small table, away from the main table, with various goodies and sweets. Usually these happen at children's parties. I think the kids will be very pleased to see funny pictures of sweets not only on the main table, but also on the dessert table.
Soft toys may also be present on the sweet table, and helium balloons may be attached. It will be interesting for the birthday girl to study and try a sweet flower basket
Birthday table decoration with a tablecloth
The tablecloth is a kind of background for festive dishes. Try to make this very background as interesting and festive as possible.
Add homemade garlands made of paper, ribbons, artificial flowers, themed photographs, etc. to a regular tablecloth.
The part of the tablecloth hanging from the table can be decorated with long multi-colored or plain tulle ribbons, thereby turning an ordinary table covered with a tablecloth into something luxurious and incredibly beautiful.
