There’s no time of the year merrier and joyous than Christmas. Even as one closes their eyes to imagine Christmas, a wide innocent pleasurable smile spreads across their face within moments. Yes – Christmas is the reason for this joy.
Christmas welcomes a lot of festivities and celebrations across homes, communities, and workspaces. Everyone takes the time to celebrate each other’s companionship and friendship and gift each other special gifts. Even more important than gifts, however, is the gathering together to celebrate the occasion and the warmth one shares. Christmas dinners with family, friends, and colleagues are pure joy. Entering homes and restaurants, only to smell the wafts of gingerbread cookies, guests cackling away near the toasty fireplace, and the chill awesomeness one feels down the spine as they sip their first eggnog of each evening – is what Christmas is all about.
With these Christmas dinners come the intricate needs of decorating the Christmas dinner table with plenty of carefully selected and placed cutlery, Christmas napkin rings, placemats, name holders, etc.
Here’s how you can make your Christmas dinner tables look amazing :
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Use greenery indoors
If you have a Christmas tree in your living room, then the idea of decorating your home up for the season is just what you need to make your home look great. The best way to go about it by using a bright Christmas red runner sprinkled with holly or pine cones in deep clear vases. You could even use a sprig of mistletoe at entrances to the dining room, and it can help make the occasion even more joyous!
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Sweeten the Christmas table
Before you plan to bring out the pies, cider, and eggnog, lay sugary treats on the Christmas table and even decorate the plates using candy canes, peppermint candies, or even a gingerbread house at the center of the table center. You could alternatively use such props as a setting for Thanksgiving table setting.
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Spruce the Chairs Up
Another good way to set up the dining area at your home during Christmas is by transforming your everyday dining chairs into a work of art by decorating it and sprucing up the chairs with wide red ribbons tied around it. Doing this would not only speak highly of the occasion but make your setting look amazing in front of your guests – family & friends. If you have children over for your party, creative crafts such as angel wings could be a great addition to their kid chairs. Pinning it back at the back of your chairs will make the occasion festive.
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Use Creative Napkins
Another really great way to go about decorating your Christmas dinner table is by using creative looking Christmas napkin rings. Find yourself beautiful Christmas napkins that you love, preferably in the color of your Christmas decor theme. After buying your napkins, fold them into miniature Christmas origami trees and then place them on the plate with napkin ring holders. After this, you could place them along with name place holders so that none of the guests would be caught off guard trying to figure the appropriate seating arrangement for them. Plus, putting in creative placeholders will also be a decorative element for the season. You could also use these as wedding card holders any time you wish to use it at a later date, at any wedding in the future.
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Light Up the Entire Night
Lastly, one of the best ways to spruce up your entire dining space is by adding lights. Christmas meals are magical when there are many decorative lights around. You can use up white, red, and green candles that go with the theme of Christmas. Children around you will love celebrating Christmas with you because of the use of the twinkly lights that you use in your decor.
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Hang up stockings around the house
Fireplace mantels aren’t the only place one can put up stockings. You could always set up the stockings next to the guest’s plate and put in the forks, knives, and spoon. You could also add in candies such as candy canes of different flavors for the kids and adults.
