Holidays & Seasons

10 Place Settings to Create a Pretty Table for Easter

The freshness of floral blossoms, dainty egg cups and pretty pastels – create a pretty table setting for your Easter brunch with the spring sunshine adding the final touches. Bring out your colorful table linens and mix and match them with flowers, plant material, polka dots, stripes, plaid, candles, ribbons and eggs decorated for Easter and create an eye-catching tablescape to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord and the joys of Spring.

Easter Place Setting in Green, with Daffodils and Foil Covered Chocolate Eggs
Easter Place Setting in Green, with Daffodils and Foil Covered Chocolate Eggs

Foil Covered Chocolate Eggs add another shade of green to this already pleasant green table setting. Decorate each place setting with a bowl of small chocolate eggs that double as a treat for the kids or even a favor for guests. Paper doilies, daffodils and plaid green mats  – all come together seamlessly to set this beautiful Easter table.

Easter Place Setting with a Bunny Folded Blue, Polka Dotted Napkin holding a Painted Egg
Easter Place Setting with a Bunny Folded Blue, Polka Dotted Napkin holding a Painted Egg

Get cutesy with this adorable place setting. If you have kids at your Easter table, this is sure to be a hit. Use painted or dyed eggs at each place setting and set them upon a bunny folded napkin. Our blue, polka dotted napkin is tied with an orange ribbon that also highlights the orange in the cupcakes and the flowers on the table.

Easter Place Setting with a Natural 'Nest' for a Ribbon-tied Egg
Easter Place Setting with a Natural ‘Nest’ for a Ribbon-tied Egg

A trip to your garden will fill you with ideas to use fresh or dried plant material to create nests to sit pretty eggs upon. Without the need for buying anything specifically for Easter table decor, you can create simple and elegant place settings by tying eggs with ribbon or rick-rack and setting them on grass nests on bright colored plates.

Easter Table Setting in Pastel Purple color with Egg Shaped Candles
Easter Table Setting in Pastel Purple color with Egg Shaped Candles

Tulips add a touch of old-school glamour to this otherwise cute table setting. Pastel hues of Lavender, polka dots and a pretty egg-shaped candle standing in an egg plate make for an idyllic and nostalgic looking Easter table.

Easter Table Setting in Yellow and Purple with Crocuses
Easter Table Setting in Yellow and Purple with Crocuses

Spring in all its glory! Happy, sunshine yellow makes a beautiful statement when paired with the deep blush of purple. Use crocuses in both colors to set the color scheme and then accentuate with whatever pieces you can find on hand. A pristine white backdrop will bring out the best of both these bright colors.

Easter Table setting in Blue and Green
Easter Table setting in Blue and Green

Mixing the cool shades of blue and green gives you sheer bliss. Create some DIY Easter Decor by using colorful duct tape to embellish a goblet or fill a glass tumbler with blue dyed stones and add tea-lights to make lovely candle holders for your Easter table.

Easter Table setting in Turquoise and other Shades of Blue
Easter Table setting in Turquoise and other Shades of Blue

There’s more to blue than just good old sky blue. From turquoise to ink blue, you can vary the different hues and bring them together to create a very fashionable mono-chromatic look for your Easter table. Polka dots from the candle are repeated in the ribbon tying together the cutlery.

Easter Table Setting in Pink and Blue, with Roses
Easter Table Setting in Pink and Blue, with Roses

Think Pink for Easter! Skip the green grass and the eggs and go for a rose wonderland. The backdrop of the pretty blue tablecloth is the perfect excuse to bring delicate rose buds to complete this elegant Spring table setting with a feminine touch.

Easter place setting in green, with the egg nestled in a nest over a bed of salad leaves
Easter place setting in green, with the egg nestled in a nest over a bed of salad leaves

Your salad bowl can provide you with inspiration for more than the menu! Look around a for a healthy leaf to create a ‘bed’ for a pretty Easter nest at your place setting.

Easter Table Setting in Bolder Tones, with decorated eggs sitting atop nests on a vivid color palette of Purple and Orange
Easter Table Setting in Bolder Tones, with decorated eggs sitting atop nests on a vivid color palette of Purple and Orange

Thinking offbeat? Bolder hues of purple and orange are surprisingly flattering and look beautiful on an Easter table when paired with seasonal flowers like Gerber daisies and bright orange tulips.

Whether you love the traditional pastels or don’t mind working in a fresh palette, incorporating seasonal flowers and foliage will give your table a distinct touch of Easter. Play around with what you have or use your basic white linens and china and accessorize with hand-decorated Easter eggs for each place setting. From monochromatic to a splash of colors, we hope to have inspired you to decorate your own Easter table with flair.