Decorate a Christmas Eve dinner table with the beauty of the season.
The Christmas season radiates light, laughter and joy. Bring the beauty of Christmas to your Christmas Eve dinner table. Imagine your family's and friend's faces when they catch their first glimpses of your dazzling dinner table. Now visualize sparkling conversation, the gentle rings of glasses raised in joyful toasts and delectable food arrayed on festive dinnerware. Make that Christmas Eve dinner table happen and you are on your way to a delightful evening.
Instructions
1. Use pinecones to add Christmas flair to a dinner table.
A tablecloth can become a canvas upon which you will create a Christmas dinner theme masterpiece. Spread a crisp white tablecloth across your dinner table. Place a large cut glass or crystal bowl in the center of the table. Arrange white and silver pinecones in the bowl, interspersing holly leaves and berries for contrasting color. Set smaller glass bowls around the table with the same decorations inside.
2. Add a festive note with red wine glasses.
Place settings send tantalizing invitations to the pending feast and festivities. Stack a white china dinner plate, salad plate and bread plate at each place setting. Give each guest a small gift brightly wrapped and set on the top plate. The website Amazing Christmas Ideas suggests using two different colored napkins for a novel napkin presentation. Roll a red and a white linen napkin. Place a glass napkin ring around the two napkins. Lay the napkins above the stacked plates. Arrange a red wine glass and a clear crystal water glass at setting. Place flatware as needed.
3. Arrange Christmas candles for ambience.
It seems as if Christmas is a season of lights. Create a dinner light show with candlelight and table settings. Arrange ivory tapers in clear glass candlestick holders on either side of the centerpiece. Place red votive candles in clear glass votive holders around the smaller bowls. Provide sufficient candlelight to dance off your stemware and glassware.
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