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Scenes from SVT – Two Weddings and Two Tea Parties

Next year’s calendar is filling in nicely as we finish out this year. Today we will introduce you to two wedding clients who have designed very cool tablescapes for their guests and one client who offers tea parties, complete with speciality hand-crafted teas and treats.

First, here are Natalia and Sharon, her future mother-in-law. It didn’t take long for us to see how much affection is felt between these two. Natalia and Trent, who will be married next September, wanted a fall inspired look but with a twist. Oranges, greens, pink, and peach are found in the assortment of vintage plates, goblets, and even the bottle bouquets. We are excited about crafting these for their tables!

Meet Trista, owner of Ora Teahouse. This delightful business woman first rented from us this past spring and this November she hosted two more tea parties. With her speciality hand-crafted teas and delicious savory and sweet treats, her tea parties are heavenly. What a honor for us to help with her tea-centered gatherings! For more information about Trista and her business, go to this article on Shoutout North Carolina.

Our third client is Margot, accompanied by her cheery planner, Rebs, owner of Events by Reb. They both came to the studio with an open mind, ready to explore our offerings. This was her first stop in her wedding planning because she loves vintage and wanted her reception to work off the choices she would make here. How nice for us! They landed on a vintage blue and white theme, with glass salad plates, green goblets and tumblers, clear wine goblets, and silverplate flatware. Her decor will include a wooden centerpiece, brass elements, and brass-framed table numbers. Blue and green are a favorite color combination for us!

It was such a pleasure working with these clients and we have more coming over this month. Looking forward to our creative meetings!

Scenes from SVT – Three Vintage Visions

We’ve like to introduce three different sets of clients with their own unique story and design. Olivia and Trevor, who will be married next October at her family’s farm, are serving soup and salad, which will be their guests’ choice. At first, they thought about only having bowls for the soup, but then realized that they could be used for the soup as well! Our vintage soup/salad bowls will be placed over a dark colored plate from another vendor. We love this idea!

Cameron and Ben visited our studio looking for vintage green goblets and candleholders. After we toured the inventory, Cameron fell in love with the green themed vintage plates and decided to go in a different direction. With vintage clear goblets, different sizes of brass candleholders, and glass dessert plates, their intimate wedding will be beautiful!

A dinner party for 70? Yep, a women’s group in Durham plan two events each year and this time they came to us to find some vintage color. The table design was spectacularly detailed and our vintage luncheon plates with decorative rims, the mix of green, amber, and purple goblets, and champagne coupes fit right in. The dinner was last month and, from the few photos we saw, the affair was amazing!

Our calendar is opening up for the rest of this year and next. We’d love to help you with your dinner party, wedding, holiday, or any other event you’d like to make a little special for your guests! Contact us here.

Scenes from SVT – The Intersection Between Two Weekends of Four Weddings

The close of a busy, fun fall wedding season is upon us and today we are in limbo between cleaning up from yesterday’s two weddings and getting ready for two. We thought you might want to see the organized chaos of this juncture.

Knowing we’d have a lot to do in a short amount of time to get ready for our new weddings, we started assembling the items as soon as we had everything ready for the weddings that happened yesterday. The photo above includes clean and packed plates for the first new wedding and cleaned crates of champagne coupes for the second. The blue crates on the table are holding an assortment of clear vintage vases and candleholders. The vintage plates below were sanitized and now need to be covered with plastic. They are going with the second new wedding.

Now our focus switches to washing the vintage plates and goblets from this weekend. These sets of vintage salad, dessert, and dinner plates were picked up today, washed, and drying for them to returned to their shelves. We also picked up the tableware from the 2nd wedding and left them in the car overnight. Tomorrow we return to the studio to unload and wash them.

What is fun about these four weddings is that they all have their own unique vintage design – large and petite floral patterns, wildflower stoneware, cream and white with gold, and the last is a mix of browns, greens, and gray. Below are the mockups from their studio visit and we can’t wait to see the finished reception tables. How lovely they all are!

Scenes from SVT – Charming, Cheerful, and Colorful Describe Three Clients’ Vintage Choices

Lauren and Greg tied the knot on a destination wedding, but wanted to celebrate their new marriage with family and friends once they returned. Here’s a great story as to how she found our company – they booked the Chapel Hill Carriage House and were invited to see the table setup for one of our clients’ wedding. Well, they loved it and here she is – selecting her vintage eclectic look for their wedding party which took place in late September. Yay!

We love tea party baby showers and so does Valencia and her daughter. Sometimes we have so much fun at our client meeting that we forget to take photos. Ugh! This happened with Valencia and Maurice and we were bemoaning the lost opportunity for some great photos after they left. Lo and behold, Maurice returned to get something he had forgotten and we implored him to return with his wife to get that photo, and guess what – they did and here it is! The baby shower was yesterday and we look forward to hearing how it all went!

These two had the sweetest vibe about them. Lauren and Richard are preparing for their wedding next August at the Honeysuckle Tea House. At the Honeysuckle’s open house, which we participated in, the two saw our table and decided that we had the vintage look they wanted. We think they love their vintage tablescape!

We’ve said it before, probably many times, but seeing vintage tablescape designs always delight us! After picking up the rentals from Sydney and Kayden’s wedding today, the venue owner said the guests were enamored with the vintage tables, especially the brown and green mix of plates. How awesome is that!

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!

Scenes from SVT – Four Couples, Four Fabulous Vintage Tablescape Designs

Today we have four great vintage designs from four clients! The first couple styled a wonderful take on the classic blue and white. Notice the layout – mostly blue dinner and mostly white salad in the center and then mostly white paired with a colorful floral salad on either side. Vintage blue, orange, and amber goblets and mixed napkin patterns enhance this colorful tablescape. Finally, their vintage table decor will include brass candleholders with peg votives, vintage books, and table numbers in vintage frames. Jenny and Andy’s spectacular wedding is set for this October at the Parlour at Mann’s Chapel.

Our next couple, Anna and Garrick, have another unique take on vintage. They have combined vintage retro green dinner plates with crisp white and gold china plates, a mix of gold and stainless flatware, and vintage brown and dusky blue goblets. Both love vintage and will be incorporating a bunch of cool decor items – a vintage sewing machine and a pair of scissors (Anna is a seamstress!), telephone, bird cages, black-framed mirror and window panes, brass candleholders, and brass vases. We look forward to their wedding next March in Madison, NC!

Here are Anna and Matt and their design demonstrates that vintage can be elegant, quiet, and beautiful. They have chosen vintage white stoneware, clear salad plates, and clear patterned goblets. The silverplated flatware completes this lovely tablescape. (Their venue, Lavendar Oaks, will be providing wooden chargers so we used our wooden plates to imagine how everything will look on a white tablecloth, just in case you wondered.) These two will be married next June!

Another colorful splash of vintage will be coming to Savannah and Andrew’s wedding next October at the Carriage House of Chapel Hill. Their vintage look includes a mix of brown patterned plates with large florals. Amber, pink, green, and purple goblets and mixed patterned napkins add more fabulousness to their reception tables. We love how much these two loved their final design!

Four couples with four vintage designs getting married at four venues – your vision, creativeness, and imaginativeness continue to inspire us!

Scenes from SVT – Creative Client Vintage Tablescape Designs

The fall wedding season is here and our latest visitors have had fun visualizing their reception tables. Everyone loved the vintage colored goblets and you’ll see them in each of the following designs; however, each has their own unique combination. Here are 5 happy, smiling clients with their vintage tablescapes!

Let’s start with Amy and Nathan who will be getting married this month at the beautiful Carolina Grove. This fun couple set their table with a mix of floral china patterns and added a set of cool colored vintage goblets. With a mix of green napkins, their tables will dazzle their guests!

Edna, who will marry Douglas this month at The Cloth Mill, was looking to create a peaceful feeling for her tables. With help from her planner, Lorne of Carter Creations, the design emerged. The vintage plates are a mix of white stoneware and white/cream plates with gold. The vintage goblets will be a mix of dusky blue, light blue, and clear. Green napkins will enhance the peaceful feeling. This combination of blue and green is one of our favorites!

Lily visited the studio with her mother to create a romantic look for her wedding to Caden at The Cornealius Properties in Goldsboro next March. She chose vintage plates from our gold white/cream collection and then layered them with colorful salad plates. The array of vintage colored goblets are beautiful with the place settings. This romantic, sweet tablescape will be stunning!

Joined by her mother, Sydney wanted to design a fall-themed tablescape for her wedding to Kayden next month at the Barn of Valhalla. Vintage brown and white plates along with amber goblets are classic fall colors and mixed in are lovely vintage plates featuring green. This design will look stunning with brass candleholders with clear peg votives along with a vignette of petite brass vases on each table. We think this will be amazing!

Lastly, here’s Sydney. She’s selecting teacups and coordinating salad plates for her own birthday tea party. Isn’t that amazing! She gifted herself a tea party to celebrate with close friends on her 21st birthday. We heard it was totally fun!

Five clients and 5 different looks with vintage tableware. The process is always fun and we totally love seeing their smiles when their tablescape design is realized. But, we have more to share – next week we’ll have 4 more clients to showcase!

Scenes from SVT – Our Clients Adore Vintage!

It’s true! Our visitors are kindred spirits when it come to appreciating the beautify of vintage tableware and everything else. Some have shared that they feel at home amongst all of our treasures. Their enthusiasm for our collections makes our hearts sing!

Today we’d like to introduce you to a delightful cadre of visitors and their creative vintage tablescapes. First up is Allie and Cameron – these two sweethearts who met in 4th grade are getting ready for their November wedding. They didn’t date until after college, but their shared childhood memories played an important role in their finding each other again.

This mother/daughters’ meeting was really fun! Although deliberation is continuing, Camille is considering different vintage colored-themed tables for her July wedding. Her sister Renee also started looking at possibilities for her September wedding. It’s going to be a busy few months for this family!

Cleveland and Lauren are making final plans for their November wedding. With her mother’s help, their design includes florals, colored goblets, and possibly peg votives on brass candleholders. We truly enjoyed meeting these folks!

We are so excited about Helen and Christian’s wedding scheduled for next year. Helen’s mother has a unique collection of vintage kitchen tablecloths that will be used as toppers for the tables. Here are three examples – mostly purples/pinks, blues/pinks, and yellow/greens. This is going to be totally fun!

Macie and Byron’s wedding is coming up this September. It’s an intimate affair with lots of color and special touches. They will be using colored Whitehall glasses paired with a colored wine glass. Initially, they set the table with two looks – one side with browns and the other with white stoneware. The final decision is to use vintage white stoneware with the colored pair of vintage goblets. It’s going to be a treat for their guests!

We’ve had the immense pleasure to meet Rebecca who owns Events by Rebs. Vivacious, super friendly, and full of energy, she planned a styled shoot at The Honeysuckle Teahouse using our vintage wares. We chose vintage kitchen tablecloths, a mix of complementary plates, napkins, tumblers, flatware, and natural chargers. Vintage suitcases, lanterns, and an assortment of other vintage decor also went out the door for this special shoot.

Six visitors with their own vintage flair and all personal to them. Looking forward to helping you with your wedding and seeing photos from the Rebs’ photo shoot!

Scenes from SVT – The Beauty of Vintage Colored Glass

We finally did it! The beautiful vintage colored glass pieces are now all lit up! Without an outlet close by, the former location just didn’t work. Now, they dazzle under the lights. This transformation has been on the to-do list for at least a year and, with Sarah’s help, we’ve crossed this one off.

This isn’t all we’ve been working on but those projects aren’t ready for their reveal. Stay tuned!

Scenes from SVT – Recent Vintage Arrivals!

We’ve added a little something something to our already full vintage inventory, but we think you’ll agree that these are all great additions. When a vintage colored goblet comes up for sale, we can’t resist! The vintage pink ones above were found on marketplace and the vintage teal and light green were online purchases. Remarkably, the vintage yellow ones were found at a local thrift store – what a thrill to find them! All are on the shelves at Southern Vintage Table’s studio for folks to see and select for their guests.

The next set of vintage pretties are ready for a tea party! These small dishes can be filled with lemons, bonbons, tea sachets, or any petite sweet. We have a great collection of these vintage mini dishes that look terrific on your guest tables.

This sweet vintage teapot is now one of our favorites! Looking forward to packing her for our tea parties coming up.

Is it a pitcher or a vase? Obviously, this vintage floral pitcher is both! Spring bouquets will look fabulous in this vessel. (No dissing our fake arrangement, please. 🙂 )

Now, we have the perfect vintage prop that pays homage to jazz or actually any kind of music – a vintage saxophone. You might remember the trumpet and other vintage decor that were used at a speakeasy corporate party. You’ll enjoy looking back at this event, Speakeasy Party Photos are in. Wish we had that saxophone then!

Vintage Trumpet — Photo by Martha Manning

Lastly, we have new business cards!

Now, back to the Super Bowl commercials… Have a fun week!