2023 Vintage Christmas Table
With many houses to hit during Christmas, I decided a few years ago that I wanted a big Christmas Eve meal to be a special part of my immediate family’s plans. I got to work today setting my 2023 vintage Christmas table, and my oldest is already ready to feast among all of my vintage pretties.
I started with my Friendly Village vintage dish set. I especially love that the dinner plates and bread plates are winter-themed, so they were an obvious choice for my vintage Christmas table.
I started with the only napkin set I have that includes six napkins and raided my vintage Christmas tablecloth collection to try to find the perfect complement to the colors and pattern.
I settled on a white tablecloth with a large, chunky poinsettia pattern that runs along the edges. It felt the most obvious choice to play nice with the very busy plaid napkins. I actually snagged this gorgeous tablecloth at an estate sale over the summer for only $3.
Yesterday, I bought a few stems from Hobby Lobby for their 66% sale, and added them to the centerpiece that I had been working with all Christmas so far. My candelabra was absolutely perfect for Christmas, featuring space for the five-needed Advent candles that we light as a family every Sunday of the Advent season.
Because it’s such a tall piece, I buried it in a bowl with vintage ornaments to draw the eye back down to the table. I have a few extra vintage Christmas postcards that make a sweet end cap to the centerpiece with my vintage green flower frogs.
My vintage green Indiana Glass collection was ready to play since I passed it over for my amber collection for Thanksgiving. That, coupled with an unmarked set of red sorbet glasses, and mismatched silverware, effectively concludes my Christmas table.
I’ve had all of this swirling around in my head for a few weeks; it filled me with such joy to put it all together today. On Sunday, we’ll fill our plates with ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, rolls, and “pink stuff” (a cranberry marshmallow salad my mom used to make us as kids) and feast together by the glow of our kitchen Christmas tree.
It’s times like these that I miss, ever so slightly, my formal dining room, even though it was never large enough to fit much more than two people at a time. But I remind myself that there’s a coziness to gathering in the kitchen, surrounding by the sights and smells of a mother who has spent the day loving her family through food.
The big day is almost here, and this is officially the last of the decorating for the season. I plan to spend the next two weeks basking in the glow of the twinkly lights and making memories doing all of the things we haven’t had time to fit into the weeks leading up to Christmas. It’s amazing how far behind it feels our NYC trip put us. But it was so worth it, and it gives us an excuse to keep up our decorations up just a little bit longer to fully enjoy it all.
How long do you keep up your Christmas decorations?
