How to Decorate the Table for Christmas Dinner

A festive, holiday-hued table is a memory to cherish when recalling Christmas dinners. Customized individual place settings, colorful glittering centerpieces or masses of natural materials such as pine cones and holly berries are just a few decorating ideas that you can bring to your Christmas dinner table. Choose a thematic color combination, or stick with traditional greens and reds to emphasize your holiday table. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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Create a Christmas dinner table centerpiece that includes red and green pillar candles nestled in holly leaves and pine boughs. Tuck glitter-coated pine cones and silver-glittered acorns into the display. Place your centerpiece on a red-green plaid tablecloth. Use additional pine cones at each place settling to hold namecards.

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Display cranberry-red goblets and chargers at each place setting atop a green or gold tablecloth with green and gold cloth napkins. For your centerpiece, choose a miniature live pine tree decorated with tiny multicolored ornaments and draped with strands of gold, green and red tinsel.

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Fill a soup tureen with fresh fruit, such as oranges, grapes, persimmons, apples and pomegranates as your Christmas dinner table centerpiece. Tuck sprigs of holly and cinnamon sticks into the fruit display. Choose all-white serving dishes, plates and cups,accented with bright red dinner napkins.

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Nestle a bed of reflective silver tinsel into the bottom of a large glass bowl or crystal punch bowl that marks the center of the Christmas dinner table. Line the bowl with a strand of white tinsel lights. Fill the bowl with vintage glass ornaments sprinkled with dozens of individually wrapped old-fashioned hard Christmas candies.

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Hang personalized Christmas stockings from the back of each chair to act as place markers. Place decorated presents atop each place setting. Fill each soup bowl with an assortment of peppermint sticks, chocolate-covered cherry candies, nuts and raspberries. Line the table length with brass candlesticks and red taper candles nestled among fresh green boughs.