80 Fall Table Decor Ideas That Put The Season On Full Display
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Incorporate Unexpected Colors
Hector Manuel Sanchez
Expand your seasonal color palette, as textile designer Olivia Massie of Maison Venu did here. Instead of calling for the expected golden-hour tones, she leaned into the pops of blue in her blockprint tablecloth instead, delivering a fresh approach to fall style.
Deconstruct the Centerpiece
Laurey W. Glenn; Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller
Rather than traditional florals, opt for an artful composition that extends the length of the table and calls for the season’s bounty, from pumpkins and gourds to coleus and fall lettuces. Just be sure to keep things around 12 inches tall or shorter so folks can still see each other across the table.
Set The Tone
Here’s an assortment of simple vessels in soft and muted tones, with pops of vibrant color from dahlias and zinnias to create the drama. Painted maroon pampas grass along with some wild grasses cut from the yard give this display a bit of height and just a touch of playfulness. When combining various flower types, keep them within the same color family for a cohesive look.
Decorate with Dried Finds
Laurey W. Glenn; Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller
For this unique take on a pumpkin centerpiece, we adorned each of the peachy pink gourds with dried natural elements, like seed pods, moss, pinecones, and feathers. The combination of textures makes for a more interesting display, plus, since the pumpkins aren’t pierced or carved, they’ll last from Halloween through Thanksgiving.
Branch Out Your Bouquet
Foliage is the star of this bouquet that mostly skips the flowers in favor of cut stems. Pick a primary branch to begin the composition, clipping back twigs as needed to let the shape shine. Draw the eye to the center of the arrangement by clustering textural items, such as berries, dried hydrangeas, and wispy ferns.
Share The Abundance
Begin by placing the large ornamental gourd, the anchor of this cornucopia arrangement, and use magnolia foliage as a frame. Alternate displaying the fronts and backs of the leaves for added interest and texture. Then, pile in artichokes, smaller gourds, pears, bittersweet berries, foxtail millet grass, and feathers.
Plant A Centerpiece Garden
Fill an oval container with potting soil. Plant a variety of succulents in the middle of the container. Tuck in tiny pumpkins, seasonal veggies like kale, radishes, and fresh herbs. Scatter additional tiny pumpkins and votives on the table.
Use Mini Pumpkins For Floating Candles
To make the votive, use a craft knife to trace circles slightly larger than the bottom of a tea light in the miniature pumpkins. Carve them out and tuck the candle inside. Then float them in a bowl with a sprinkling of fall foliage.
Arrange Layers Of Fall Greenery
Line a linear basket with foil, soak blocks of florist foam in water, and add them on top of the foil. Arrange fall flowers like mums around the perimeter of the basket. Line one edge with stones and rocks from a craft store and the other with various moss and lichens. Break florist picks in half, sticking half in the bottom of each apple and secure it in the florist foam. Arrange berzilia and pods around the apples.
Create A Pumpkin Planter
Pumpkin parties are classic! Impress your guests with rich pumpkin soup, delicious pumpkin dump cake, and delightful pumpkin martinis. Pumpkins also make fun planters, like this brightly colored arrangement of pansies and greens.
Go With Gold
This year, skip the mums in seasonal displays, and instead rely on produce such as pumpkins and squash. Floral designer and stylist Kathleen Varner recommends this styling to show off classic yellows and oranges. She filled an antique iron urn with a variety of gourds in different shapes and sizes and then tucked in sunflowers and bittersweet vines so the arrangement didn’t seem too heavy.
Blend Rustic With Elegant
Wood slabs serve as a base for candles, moss, and small bouquets in this rustic-meets-elegant table setting. Place additional candles around the arrangement to make the silver—and your guests’ faces—gleam in the light.
Make Your Pumpkins Bloom
Use cut mums to turn a soft-skinned pumpkin into a pretty flower arrangement. Make cuts with an awl or another pointed tool, then insert the stems. Keep the floral pumpkins in your refrigerator until party time to help extend their shelf life.
Pumpkins Make Good Place Cards
All you need to do is put a name tag on a miniature pumpkin. We love how simply this table is dressed, creating a white canvas for fall decor. All you need is elegant white china, white linen napkins, mismatched glassware, and a few cut branches bursting with fall color.
Create An Outdoor Centerpiece
Don’t forget your outdoor spaces when decorating for a party. Even if most of the entertaining will take place indoors, guests will likely spend some time out in the garden. To create this long-lasting centerpiece, fill a tray with succulents and arrange a pumpkin patch in the center.
Fill A Pumpkin Vase
Skip the glass vase and use pumpkins instead. Carve a hole in the pumpkin and fill with your favorite fall flowers. Tip: Use a piece of floral foam for a more arranged look.
Bring On The Color
Color doesn’t have to fade away just because it’s fall. Add some excitement to your table with harvest golds, jewel-toned flowers, and brilliant blue place settings. Pile leafy green vegetables and bright yellow lemons in your centerpiece.
Arrange Asymmetrical Elegance
To re-create this gorgeous centerpiece, you’ll need scarlet dahlias, blush-hued stocks, whimsical scabiosas, silver dollar eucalyptus, lysimachia, hypericum berries, plumosa ferns, and roses in pretty peach tones. Use florist foam to better arrange your flowers. Create an asymmetrical design by allowing the silver dollar eucalyptus and plumosa ferns to drape from one side.
Wrap Candleholders In Foil
How sweet is this DIY arrangement? With just a few dollar-store buys, your dinner party gets a cute but sophisticated upgrade. Rose gold foil tape and turquoise leather lace add the perfect festive touch to clear candle vases. Tea lights float at varying levels.
Add Height To Your Pumpkin Display
Arrange branches, dried grasses, moss, squash, and small pumpkins in a vase. The long slender red dogwood twigs add height and drama to the table. Fill in around the arrangement with berries.
Craft Place Cards With Wax Seals
A wax seal feels dressy and glamorous, but it’s relaxed when paired with cardstock and a handwritten place card. “There’s nothing better than getting an invitation with a wax seal in the mail,” says Rachael Burrow. She re-created that excitement on this nautical fall table inspired by blue-and-white ginger jars.
Keep It Simple With Mums
You don’t need a lot of fuss to create a beautiful centerpiece or side table arrangement, as this simple setup proves. Add as many containers as you’d like for to fit your space, and fill each vase with one variety of mums.
Set A Fall Wreath On The Table
Who said wreaths were reserved for the front door? Guests will be blown away by this beautiful DIY project. Watch the tutorial video and follow our instructions for making a fall wreath with dried flowers.
Make A Pumpkin More Succulent
You can still have a pretty, natural centerpiece without a green thumb. A succulent pumpkin will last through multiple fall parties. Add a bit of damp florist foam to the top of the pumpkin and arrange your succulents.
Use Natural Textures For Place Cards
These simple DIY place cards are casual but provide a special touch. Suitable for a laidback fall dinner party or easygoing Thanksgiving, these place cards will blend with any autumnal color scheme you choose. Make sure to use a sturdy, textural material.
Reimagine The Cornucopia
This reimagined classic is a fun departure from pumpkins and mums. The deconstructed design celebrates the abundance of the holiday with silver dollar eucalyptus, a cabbage sourced from the grocery store, plumosa ferns, turnips, pears, miniature pumpkins, bright green Brussels sprouts, pomegranates, thistles, and green hydrangea blossoms.
Create A Cozy Tablescape
Here’s a unique idea we love. Antique books add height and interest under a few of the planters and votives. Keep some of the pumpkins and votives on the table so all of your elements are at varying heights.
Dress Up The Bar
This cozy bar offers guests plenty of room to fix a drink and grab a snack. Use pumpkins as risers to elevate appetizer plates. Create a simple look by piling pumpkins in a Champagne bucket and weaving branches of berries around the rim. Then, add a cut-flower bouquet arranged in a pitcher.
Set A Fun Fall Kids’ Table
Dress up the kids’ table with non-breakable dinnerware and room to doodle. Cover the table in white paper and draw “place mats” and “place cards” directly on it. Add an orange paper runner and yellow plates to brighten it up.
Make Golden Gourds
Spray paint gourds, pumpkins, pears, and any other produce your heart desires. Arrange with wheat sheaves wrapped in satin ribbon for an elegant, natural touch. Pro tip: Use fake produce and you can store it for next year too.
Create A Pumpkin Topiary
Whether as a centerpiece, an entryway table accent, or a kitchen counter decoration, a lush, colorful topiary is so beautiful. We love the way white pumpkins pop against lush, natural elements. This one uses three bowls of graduated sizes with wet florist foam and florist picks to secure the pumpkins and artichokes.
Pile On The Pumpkins
Don’t have a knack for intricate floral arrangements? You can still have adorable fall decorations. With this quick and easy idea, group and stack different sizes and colors of pumpkins on a side table or as a centerpiece for a laidback look.
Arrange A Fall Harvest Centerpiece
Mix fresh fall flowers and colorful produce for a cheerful and easy arrangement. Set out bud vases with blooms you incorporated for cohesive party decorations, and do not shy away from using the bounty of the fall harvest. Here we have included radishes and Brussels sprouts to show off some of our favorite fall vegetables.
Craft Crepe-Paper Pumpkins
These DIY pumpkins look professionally made and you can keep them for years. Start with foam balls in different sizes, using a wooden spoon to create the ridges and depressions that form the curves of a pumpkin. Cover the foam balls with orange crepe paper, and secure with a U-pin at the top of each ball. Paint the crepe paper-covered balls with craft glue adhesive (such as Mod Podge) to add a sheen.
Draw Inspiration From Nature
A cool, natural color palette is a relaxed but gorgeous way to host this fall. From the placemats to the linens, every element looks like it has been pulled from nature. A handful of magnolia leaves serve as a centerpiece.
Keep It In Neutral
Brown is a dominant fall color, acknowledges floral designer and stylist Kathleen Varner. To make the ubiquitous hue feel special and interesting in her arrangement, she relied on a mix of textures. Smooth pears and pumpkins plus fluffy moss-covered sticks and bunny tail grass liven up the dried elements, like pinecones, corn husks, cinnamon sticks, and hydrangeas. A footed terra-cotta container underscores the casual nature of the centerpiece, which requires no water and is designed to last for weeks.
Create Woodland Charm
This rustic arrangement is woodsy but vibrant. Make several in differing sizes for a major centerpiece moment. This arrangement uses a selection of flowers and seasonal produce in complementary colors.
Mix Colors And Sizes
Take advantage of all the gorgeous pumpkin colors out there and mix up your arrangement. Bright yellows and greens add a bold pop, but mellow blues and whites create a laidback look. An arrangement like this could work indoors or out.
Pair Apples And Mums For A Modern Look
You only need two fall essentials—apples and mums—to complete this adorable arrangement. Use bright green spider mums with Granny Smiths, or red mums with your Red Delicious. Set up these mini mum arrangements on the sideboard, as a centerpiece, or both for a casual dinner or shower.
Create Cute-As-A-Button Place Settings
These too-cute napkin rings are easy and festive for fall. Use an autumn-inspired color palette to set the scene. Using a large wooden button and thick twine, then simply tie the napkins together and surround with fall foliage and fruit, such as artificial leaves and mini pears.
Add Natural Elements To A Faux Pumpkin
If you’re not into the orangey hues of fall, entertain with an earthy color palette and incorporate these DIY faux pumpkins. Add nature-inspired, crafty add-ons like feathers and acorns for a rustic look. It’s an unexpected twist on the traditional.
Set The Perfect Southern Table
Welcome friends for a fall dinner party or Friendsgiving with the prettiest Southern table. Gather crisp linens, handwritten place cards, and as much silver as you can find. Bring them together for an elegant but colorful affair.
Plant A Tabletop Garden
Place a potted oncidium orchid in a large, lined cachepot, and surround it with water-soaked florist foam. Insert cut fall foliage into the foam along with dried crepe myrtle pods and rose hips. Then add stems of orange dendrobiums in water-filled florist tubes.
Let Your Pumpkins Sparkle
If you like everything to have a little sparkle, there’s no reason your pumpkins shouldn’t. These faux pumpkins can be reused every fall for a glittery addition to your decorations. To create this effect, use different sizes of sequins to add texture and visual interest.
Use Wood Rounds For Autumnal Place Cards
Even if crafting isn’t your expertise, you can put together these adorable DIY place cards. It’s perfect that they’re customizable to fit your color scheme. Gather your materials—wood rounds, feathers, and patterned paper—and get to gluing.
Celebrate Seasonal Bounty
Use seasonal favorites like red apples and crisp fall leaves in your centerpiece for an outdoor table that feels one with nature. Add height with longer branches and mix and match plates for a relaxed feel. Scatter pewter and silver serving pieces the length of the table, filling some with heaps of apples and others with foliage and hydrangeas if you choose.
Place Pumpkins As Serving Pieces
Pumpkins can multi-task, too. These pumpkin serving pieces are perfect for an appetizer spread or dessert table. Use flat-topped pumpkins so you can safely rest platters on top. Play with different pumpkin heights and colors to mix it up.
Gather Leaves For Place Cards
Gather fallen magnolia leaves from your yard. Dry the leaves and write your guests’ names on them using permanent marker, or get out your calligrapher’s pen. Tie twine around the stems of the leaves for a crafty touch.
Play With Fiery Flowers
Easy faux pumpkins meet gorgeous real flowers in this sweet arrangement. Reuse your faux pumpkins throughout the season and switch out the flowers to match your party decor. To recreate this look, use fiery orange zinnias, blue thistle, lush green solidago, and red hypericum berries.
Use Humble Materials
Rustic meets classic with this look. Pair humble materials like a kraft paper placemat with pretty fall china, grain-sack napkins with handwritten place cards, and your fancy silver with a burlap table runner. A mix of laid-back and dressy is perfect for a cozy fall party.
Try Teal In Fall
It’s your turn to host, and you’re ready to impress without passing into the realm of formal and stuffy. For the palette, try teal. Teal? For fall? Summer may stake a claim to the ocean hue, but strategic styling can make it an all-season star, says home goods store owner Emma Allen. She recommends pairing teal with darker tones and the right flowers.
Spice Up The Patio
If you’re entertaining outdoors this fall, turn your patio into an autumnal paradise with bountiful mums, a pumpkin topiary, and a corn tapestry. Use warm, inviting fall colors like oranges and yellows to make the space bright and inviting even on cooler days.
Use Unexpected Hues
Fall decorating doesn’t have to be in warm hues of orange and yellow. The season’s favorite flowers, mums, get a moody upgrade in this fuchsia and purple centerpiece. An understated white vessel allows the flowers to be the center of attention.
Arrange A Tableau
This fun arrangement proves even the most unassuming side tables could use a little fall cheer. Varying heights and colors lend dimension to this setup. Begin with a striking focal point (we filled a glass vase with branches of fall leaves), and build out the display from there.
Use Pear Place Cards
Simple, sweet, and seasonal, these pear place cards might be the easiest DIY of all time. You can use either artificial or fresh pears to re-create this look. Cut a thin slice in the top of your pear with a knife, and slide in a place card with the name of a guest.
Make Mini-Pumpkin Candleholders
How cute are these candleholders? Whether entertaining indoors or out, tea candles are an affordable way to up the ambiance of a party. Simply cut a one-inch circle into each pumpkin, scooping out the centers with a tablespoon, and insert votive candles.
Fashion A Festive Fall Arrangement
Blend woodsy birch sticks with modern fuchsia mums for a centerpiece that pops. You only need a cheap cylinder vase, a hot glue gun, and birch sticks from the craft store to make this happen. Fill with fresh, bright flowers, like these yellow roses and fuchsia spider mums.
Embrace Moody Hues
For party-ready decor rooted in deep shades of purple and red, floral designer and stylist Kathleen Varner filled a brass urn with pomegranates, grapes, purple cabbages, and apples. She then added dahlias, zinnias, coneflowers, and foraged leaves for lightness and height. The unexpected star here is the purple onion, secured on top using a wooden pick. Don’t feel compelled to follow this list of elements to a T, says Varner. As long as the items are in the same color family, the finished product will have this impressive effect.
Layer Patterns On Patterns
Pair soft tones of red and green with autumnal browns. The tortoiseshell glasses and plaid tablecloth to take the look totally out of holiday territory. From there, it’s all in the prints. Recreate old-school combinations that you grandma probably went for like floral china with a checkered tablecloth. Don’t be afraid to mix and match—it’s much more fun this way.
Decorate With Upholstery Tacks
Add a little whimsy to your pumpkin arrangement with upholstery tacks. Use white pumpkins or spray paint them in your desired color. Use a variety of shapes and sizes for a sophisticated look.
Use Dried Flowers On Place Cards
A cluster of dried yarrow brings color and texture to this pretty place card. Cut pieces of scrapbook paper into squares, and fold them in half. On the front of the card, write your guest’s name in calligraphy, and paste the cluster of yarrow next to it.
Forage For Materials
This cozy fall centerpiece doesn’t involve complicated arranging. Simply line up pumpkins of different sizes and colors and place natural elements like antlers, pine cones, and whole nutmeg around the pumpkins. This is a beautiful way to setup a laidback Thanksgiving table at the hunting camp or lake.
Dip Pumpkins In Glitter
These easy DIY pumpkins will add instant glamour to your fall decorations. Use craft glue adhesive on the lower third of faux pumpkins and dip them in glitter. They will give you many years of decor that sparkles and shines.
Make The Harvest A Centerpiece
Bundle together fall’s bounty, like dried corn or a bushel of wheat, with a festive ribbon, and use it as an organic centerpiece on your dining room table. The textural look is just as striking as this beautiful, rusty red flower arrangement. Wrap a plain glass vase with strips of burlap for a rustic touch.
Layer The Details
This golden, earthy setting grows more sophisticated with each layer. Recreate the look by choosing a three-color scheme and choosing a mixture of formal and natural details.
Texture A Pumpkin
It’s easy to leave out texture when it comes to decorating, but elements like this DIY project add major dimension to a fall table display. These would be adorable stacked up in different sizes in a large bowl or on a large tray on your dining table.
Arrange Fall Foliage
Fill a large vessel in the foyer for a seasonal welcome and incorporate smaller arrangements throughout the house. The key to arranging leaves is to group them by size and color. Fiery red maple makes a beautiful focal point when countered with the feathery foliage of dawn redwood laden with globes of gray-green fruit on the fringes.
Make Use Of Dried Wheat
Choose pieces of scrapbooking paper in seasonal patterns and write your guests’ names on the squares in permanent marker. Paste a small stem of dried wheat to the paper. Fold the paper in half and set it on your table to charm your guests.
Use Burlap In The Great Outdoors
In many parts of the South, fall is extremely mild, which makes it a beautiful time of year to host outdoors. This natural tablescape features rustic elements. Combine burlap placemats and pumpkin floral arrangements with upscale details like matching taper candles and sterling silver cups.
Highlight Glorious Greens
Although spring may be the season most associated with this lively hue, it hardly has a monopoly. Celebrate fall’s wide range of greens with an assortment of pears, artichokes, variegated gourds, leafy kales, feathery moss, and a coneflower. Anchor the produce with sturdy wooden picks. A vintage silver container elevates the centerpiece, and there’s no need to polish it first, says floral designer and stylist Kathleen Varner. A little tarnish keeps it from feeling too fussy or precious.
Dress Up Pumpkins
No mess here. Make these dressy no-carve pumpkins with just a few materials and place them all over the house for a cohesive look. For this elegant display, we used metallic washi tape on white pumpkins.
Make Mod Bouquets
Fall decor is often associated with rustic vibes, but you can easily bring a little mod to your party, while still keeping the colors and feel autumnal. Add in dried hydrangeas, mini calla lilies, kale, poppy buds, and deep red peonies to recreate this look. Invite each of your guests to take an arrangement home with them at the end of the meal.
Make Moss Balls
Fill any empty vase or vessel with these DIY fall moss balls for a no-fuss, natural centerpiece. Grab a few green moss balls at the craft store, buy (or gather) acorns and mini pinecones, and warm up the glue gun.
Evoke The Pumpkin Patch
Take a simple vase, urn, or container and fill with florist foam or regular Styrofoam as this requires no water. Cover the foam and gaps near the edge of the container with dried moss. Place your pumpkin on top and wrap a small length of trailing ivy or another narrow vine around the bottom.
Set A Party-Perfect Sideboard
Equal parts functional and beautiful, this sideboard will steal the show at your fall dinner party or Thanksgiving gathering. Colorful bouquets of orange dahlias, red and yellow roses, and calla lilies offset festive plates and dressy silverware.
Let There Be Light
Lighting is “the best way to create the perfect ambience,” Mary Hollis Huddleston of Mrs. Southern Social and event-rental company Please Be Seated said. “Everyone looks better when the candles are glowing, and there’s something about tall, elegant tapers that just makes a table so pretty.” Space candles down the center of the table for even lighting.
Forage For Foliage
“Use natural materials to beautify your table by gathering leaves, berries, hydrangeas, and more from your backyard,” Huddleston added. “In the South, we’re lucky that we still have plants blooming in the fall. I love combining these things with more seasonal items, like colorful autumn leaves.”‘
Raise The Bar
“Encourage your guests to grab their own drinks so you won’t be playing bartender,” Huddleston advises. “This is especially important for larger parties so you don’t spend the entire evening refilling people’s cups. For my self-serve setups, I like to offer a big batch of a signature seasonal cocktail, like the Bourbon-Apple Cider-Thyme Punch from Southern Living.”
Arrange A Sweet Dessert Table
“A dessert bar is an easy way to make dinner party guests feel like they’re at a wedding or special event with a variety of delicious treats,” explains Huddleston. “When offering a buffet, it’s important to provide all the essentials—plenty of plates, napkins, and serving utensils. And be sure to decorate this area, too, so it feels cohesive and echoes your table design.”
Go Wild With Grasses
This floral arrangement is practically bursting and adds excitement to the soft, mellow tones of the table. Don’t be afraid to go big with dried grasses. Stick them in floral foam, then fill in with oak leaves, strawflowers, stardust gypsophilas, and gourds.
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