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Blue and white tablescape with green highlights

News – Vintage Tablescapes at the Raleigh Home and Garden Show: A Stylish Blend of Elegance and Charm

The Downtown Raleigh Home Garden Show serves as a gathering spot for home enthusiasts, designers, and folks who love to entertain. Amongst all the terrific vendors and exhibitors will be Booth 1233. Here you’ll find a unique take on classic table settings for special occasions. Our two submissions, a dinner party tablescape and a charming tea gathering, offer inspiration for those seeking to elevate their entertaining game.

Setting the stage for the perfect tablescape isn’t just about arranging plates and napkins—it’s about telling a story, creating an atmosphere, and curating every detail so that everything feels just right. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at some of the elements pulled together for both designs.

Stop by Booth 1233 and let these vintage designs spark your own creativity, providing ideas for your next gathering or event. And, most importantly, enjoy the art of hosting in a way that honors the elegance of the past while celebrating the joy of gathering with friends and loved ones.

Interested in a free ticket? Visit our Instagram or Facebook page for more information.

And the years roll on… Happy 2025!

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

Albert Einstein

Oh, 2024, you have brought us much joy through the lovely clients and vendors we have met and worked alongside. We are getting ready for you, 2025, filling ourselves with hope and optimism.

Sending Wishes for Peace and Harmony

— Postcard marked December 21, 1909 at 10AM.

Message – “Dear Bro, will be home Thurs eve, Goes to Middletown 5:34 – Guess it’s up to you to meet me. Love to grandpa, ma. and self. Sister”

News – Vintage Holiday Decorating

Getting ready for the holidays? We have just begun at home and have pulled out some of most treasured decorations collected years ago. On the dining table are some of our nesting “dolls”. They are so fun to open to find the smaller ones inside. The greenery came from the back yard.

Below is the mantle-scape which features a collection of vintage cats, crates, trays, books, and thrift-store petite trees. The tall wooden kitty in the middle is very special – it was an 18th birthday gift from my boyfriend who is now my husband. (He hit the mark on this one and we are definitely vintage!)

We also played around with a couple of holiday tablescapes at the studio. The green and deep red layering of plates are a nod to the holiday colors but with a bit of vintage swag. Our favorite decor items are the little trees that are nestled in the vintage milk glass vases but we think the grass chargers are not needed after all. Too bad we didn’t get that photo!

That’s it for today’s post! We need to dig out a few more holiday decorations, go online to do a little shopping, attend a dinner party with friends, and meet with two potential clients this week. Just the right amount of busy for us!

Thankful for Family, Friends, and You

"Give thanks for each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night.
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything their goodness sends."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scenes from SVT – A Magical Vintage Tour of Southern Vintage Table’s Studio

Ready for a magical stroll through the main room of Southern Vintage Table’s studio? There’s lots to see!

Here’s your first look past the front space – two tables, one rectangular and round, which clients use to design their vintage tablescapes. To the right of the door is this beautiful display of colored glass, vintage floral artwork, and two vintage chairs. We love this view1

Hidden in the corner at the front is a door to a secret little closet. Now filled with bins of teacups and saucers, tiered stands, creamers and sugars, this small space holds a lot of cool stuff.

Across the vintage colored glass shelves is this sweet vintage desk. It belonged to my brother and we love its presence here. Poised on top is a wonderful vintage typewriter, aluminum hammered tray, and desk rack holding magazines in which you’ll find us mentioned!

On the side walls our vintage colored goblets glow and twinkle under fairy lights. Our inventory is quite extensive!

Moving to the back of the room are shelves and shelves of vintage plates, clear goblets, teapots, and teacups. Our vintage plate collection includes blue and white, white stoneware, gold on cream/white, red and white, bold florals and browns, retro, wildflower stoneware, and delicate botanicals in greens, pinks, purples, yellows, and blues.

On the top shelves we have vintage blue decor, various sizes of white pitchers, dessert and cake stands, punch bowls, decanters, pitchers, and coffee pots, some of which you can see here.

Our stroll is over for the main room. We’ve accomplished a lot with Sarah and Elizabeth’s help and the organizational fun continues here in the main room as well as the linen and decor rooms. Hosting an Open House is the goal and hoping by late winter or early spring we’ll be ready!

Come see us by completing the Contact form and we’ll set an appointment date for you to browse our vintage collections. It’s truly magical in here!

News – A Trip to the Mountains

Our blog is on vacation but we have one breathtaking photo from Jump Off Rock in Laurel Park, just outside of Hendersonville. Our son took us there at sunset and we stood there for a while, taking in its natural beauty.

This spot is a popular place for visitors. According to Romantic Asheville, the story behind the name goes like this.

It’s certainly a romantic view, complete with a tragic legend of a young Cherokee Indian maiden receiving word that her young Indian chief had been killed in battle. So she climbed to the edge of the rock and jumped off. On moonlit nights you can supposedly see her ghost on rock.

We have more places to visit, including hitting as many ice cream parlors as we can on The Hendersonville Ice Cream Trail. So far we have enjoyed delicious scoops from 4 of the 11 featured in a recent Our State Magazine. With only two more days, we’re pretty sure we won’t get to all of the remaining seven but we’ll give it our best! So far, Celtic Creamery is at the top of the list!

Have a great week!

News – More Clients, More Designs

We have been meeting with some amazingly creative clients who are planning their weddings, showers, tea parties, and dinners. Looking forward to seeing how their designs unfold at each of their happy celebrations!

News – Slide Show Added to Home Page!

Wanting to show the range of looks with our vintage tableware and decor, we have created a slide show for our home page. You can see it here and on our home page, too! (Working on resizing this on mobile devices.)

Indie Bird Photography

Madison Snedeker

Jenna Corley Photography

Jo Lindsey Photography

Rae Marshall Photography

Mylina Russell Photography

Eliza Wiley Photography

Landon Jacob hotography

MKM Photography

Red Bridge Photography

Kait Miller Photography

DH Photography

Rose Trail Photography

Katelyn James Photography

Halifax Hill Photography

Anna Fletcher Photography

SVT Photography

Britney Cruse Photography

Arika Jordan Photography

Autumn Harrison Photography

Annie Timmons Photography

Cirque91 Photography

SVT Photography

Becca Ames Photography

RTP Studio

Ariel Kaitlin Photography

Rose Trail Photography

News – Southern Vintage Table Wins Awards

Our clients have honored us this past year with these three prestigious awards – The Knot Best of Weddings 2024, Wedding Wire Couples’ Choice Awards 2024, and The Knot Best of Weddings Hall of Fame. Our hearts are filled with gratitude and appreciation for our clients and their fabulous reviews. Here are some reviews from last year that made our day and year!

Lisa 5.0 Wonderful, calming, and helpful! Serendipitous! What a wonderful surprise to find Southern Vintage Table. Shelly was perfect to work with. She had so much to choose from and we really valued her suggestions. The reception at home was truly beautiful because of Shelly’s decor.
I would highly recommend SVT.

Alea 5.0 Beautiful China! Shelly has a huge selection of beautiful China and more!!

Gabrielle 5.0 Stop deliberating and book Southern Vintage Table now! We loved our experience working with Southern Vintage Table for our place-settings and glassware for our wedding. Shelly’s collection of vintage dishes, napkins, glassware and more is unmatched and stunning. My husband and I are global event producers and we give top marks and our highest professional recommendation to Southern Vintage Table. Stop deliberating and book Southern Vintage Table now! Sent on 08/17/2023

Meg 5.0 Amazing & Unique Wedding Vendor!! Southern Vintage was absolutely amazing, I can’t say enough good things about them! Every item we rented from them was perfect and all our guests could not stop talking about how unique and gorgeous how it all looked together. We rented plates, cups and cake stands and each item added such a perfect level of details (and at such a reasonable cost!) I loved everything so much that I would love to find another reason to rent stuff from them again 🙂

Rachel 5.0 Beautiful Vintage Dishes Shelly was such a huge help in helping us decide what would look good for our tables at our wedding. She was very accommodating and flexible with our needs. Her dishes were beautiful and really elevated the look at our wedding! I would highly recommend Souther Vintage Table!

Nicole 5.0. Amazing Dinnerware Southern Vintage Table owner Shelly is a breath of fresh air in the wedding industry. She is responsive; communicates well and is detailed orientated. Shelly never rushed any of our meetings or phone conversations and nevertheless very patient with my questions. Her items are BEAUTIFUL and fair in pricing. If you want unique dinnerware for your wedding, look no further – her collection is huge and will make such a statement.

Claire 5.0 Perfect Addition to Our Wedding. Shelly’s blue and white china and accessories were the perfect accent to our wedding. Shelly was very helpful throughout the entire process, from the initial meeting to coordinating the delivery of the items. I have already connected one friend with Shelly and cannot speak highly enough of the Southern Vintage Table.

Wendi 5.0 We had a very good experience with Vintage Table, We would do business with them all over again!!! Vintage Table is very professional, and very friendly to work with. I was very impressed with how they pack their dishes, glass plates and goblets. We chose to pick up and drop off from the store, and everything was packed securely in crates with wheels, so convenient. We were given detailed instructions on how to care for the items we rented. Everything we rented was absolutely beautiful! Thank you Vintage Table for being a part of our daughters special day and for making it possible for her to have the wedding of her dreams! Your tableware is stunning to say the least and your services are over the top! I plan to recommend Vintage Table to everyone I know doing an event! Wendi Travis

We have the best clients and we love doing what we do!