To 2023, you have been filled with excitement, joy, and new beginnings. Thank you for bestowing us with many, many wonderful client memories and a successful year. To our clients, we sincerely thank you for choosing our company for your happy occasions and we wish you the very best in this new year.
We are very grateful to have clients and friends like you! Sending you all wishes for everything wonderful in the new year!
Before we close out our year, we are already looking toward next year. Today we will introduce you to several of our clients and show you their vintage tablescape designs. What do they have in common? Of course, the pieces are all vintage but also, they all have embraced color for their reception tables. These are weddings to take place in 2024 and, as always, we look forward to selecting their vintage pieces for their celebration.
Let us present two creative writers who met in school and now are getting married! Their design is super fun – table color schemes in brown, green, teal blue, yellow, and purple. It’s going to be a wonderful, vibrant celebration! (And, we got to slip in a slide show for you!)
This couple loves color and texture! With the various patterns of the vintage wildflower stoneware, they added colored goblets and patterned napkins. Our green and amber peg votives down the center will add another layer of glitz. This is certain to delight their guests!
When you can’t attend the meeting to design your reception tables, who do you call? Your parents, of course! These two visited the studio, perused our collections, and designed a blue themed tablescape for their daughter. We think she’ll like their vision!
Lastly, our client and her mother fell in love with the combination of blues and gold for their tablescape. They really loved trying various options and the different hues of our vintage blue goblets will be stunning!
What’s left for us this year? We have one return this week from a birthday tea party and at least one more client visit. As with any business, there’s always much to be done behind the scenes and we’l appreciate having a bit of time to tackle these tasks. Enjoy your week!
A fall wedding is magical here in North Carolina. The milder weather, the brilliant landscape, and the cozy, romantic atmosphere are alluring reasons to celebrate a wedding in autumn. Skylar and Kyle embraced fall’s beautiful color palette for their enchanting nuptials with amber, green, and coppery orange with pops of blues. Take note of their color profile as revealed in Kendal Bailey’s photos.
We were delighted to help Skylar and sister Amber design the reception tables. They devised a schema per table with vintage amber and green goblets and a mix of green, blue, and gold rimmed vintage plates. She also chose our vintage stainless flatware, dessert serving pieces, and clear pitchers. With the greenery sweeping down the center of the tables and the twinkling candlelight, the result was so romantic!
Bravo, Skylar and Kyle! We heard that your wedding day was beautiful and sweet, filled with many wonderful memories for everyone. May your love be with you forever!
Vendors:
Venue – Thistle Down Farm
Day of Planner – April Davis
Photography – Kendal Bailey Photography
Rentals – Southern Vintage Table
Florals – Flower Patch
Time to catch you up on our news at Southern Vintage Table! We’ve got new vintage inventory and we are also showcasing our collection of vintage and handcrafted vases and planters.
Slowly we are building a collection of vintage items featuring orange. These three ginger jars are stunning and can be filled with florals or used as decor. Their vibrancy is delightful! We also have a few candy dishes that beautifully complement this colorful look.
Here are two vintage sets of goblets we have recently added. Currently we have the Diamond Point pattern in clear, green, amber, and now pink! We’d love to find the blue and black ones at some point. The set of Flaming Orange Pebble Beach midcentury goblets are incredible! We haven’t seen this pattern and now we have 8 of these to offer our clients. The hunt is on for the other colors – lemon twist, pink lady, black pearl, mocha, and crystal ice.
Diamond Point by Indiana Glass and Pebble Beach by Fostoria
Three new vintage dinner plate patterns have been added to different collections – green & white, midcentury retro, and elegant florals. All different but oh-so cool!
Tulane Commemorative by Wedgwood, Tanglewood Brown by Royal (USA), Pinecone by Lifetime China
Lastly, we have a design suggestion for those brave clients who crave the unexpected! Our collection of both vintage and handcrafted vases and planters is growing and we’d love for someone to embrace them in their tablescape design.
(Disclaimer – these are all faux flowers and arranged a bit haphazardly. Imagine if you used fresh florals!)
Elegant, blue and white with splashes of yellow, and heaps of uniqueness were part of Bess and Beau Event Design‘s styled shoot at 5th and Washington Event Center. The customized details were extraordinary – a personalized crest, lush florals, beautiful two-layered cake, speciality chinoiserie cookies, and even a folded fortune teller! Stephanie Batten Photography captured all of this and we are so happy to share her photos today. Be sure to note the team of vendors listed at the end.
Bravo, vendor team! Thanks for including our vintage tableware in your design!
Venue: 5th and Washington Event Center
Planning and Design: Bess and Beau Event Design
Photography: Stephanie Batten Photography
Pipe and Drape/Lighting: Earthquake Productions
Florals: Flower Patch
Rentals: Farm tables, chairs, tableware, linens: Best Rent All
Vintage Tabletop Rentals: Southern Vintage Table
Greenery Walls, Boards, Hot Air Balloons, Decor: Bess and Beau Creative
Cake: Lou’s Bakery
Chinoiserie Cookies: Michelle’s Baking Obsession
Crest: Bess and Beau Creative
We’d guess that no couple wishes for a rainy day wedding, but hey, it happens. And, there are reasons to embrace the raindrops! Folklore says rain signifies a lasting marriage with fresh beginnings. For certain, the newlywed and guests probably will remember this day quite fondly, especially with the amazing rain photos!
Heather and Paul’s rainy wedding day was gorgeous and joyous, as captured by MKM Photography. Rain or shine, the Chapel Hill Carriage House offers both beautiful grounds and an open, covered pavilion so the ceremony easily was moved inside, as shown in a photo below.
The vintage reception tables were both fun and enchanting! The couple chose vintage wildflower stoneware and goblets in greens, blues, and amber, vintage stainless flatware, and dessert plates. This bold blend of colors was a winning combination for this misty day.
Bravo, Heather and Paul! We enjoyed being a part of your wedding day and are especially grateful to Paul for picking up and returning the rentals as we continue to recover from our hip surgery. Be sure to visit MKM’s blog post to read and see more about this gala event!
Vendor Team (Instagram Handles)
Venue: @chapelhillcarriagehouse
Coordination: @folie.a.deux.events
Photography: @mkmphotonc
Rentals: @southernvintagetable2
Catering: @donovansdish
Music: @djryanthedj
Flowers: @trebellainc
Hair & Makeup: @thebardot
Heather’s Dress: @coastalknot
Menswear: @ticknors
Think hosting a tea party is beyond your comfort zone? Well, wipe that notion from your mind because we are here to help you through every step of the way.
Here’s Madison. When she came in to our studio last year to plan her reception tables, she took note of our extensive collection of vintage teacups and told us that one day she wanted to have a tea party. The perfect opportunity came up when she offered to host a baby shower tea party for a dear friend. Yay!
After selecting the tea cups, she then matched them with salad-size plates. Next came teapots, tiered stands, curd bowls, goblets, napkins, and gold flatware. Notice the teeny spoons in the teacups? They are demitasse spoons and perfectly sized. Finally, Madison chose vintage clear goblets to complete her place settings. We also had two vintage pink tablecloths that became the first layer of her tablescape. Now, see how beautiful everything turned ou!
Ready to be inspired? We’ll help you get everything you need for your guests to enjoy this long cherished social gathering!
Here in North Carolina we have two primary wedding seasons – spring and fall. Both are beautiful times of the year and we enjoyed helping many clients plan their reception tables. Most of these clients will be getting married next year in the spring, hence the light spring colors, but the final set of photos is for a gathering this month and don’t we all love ambers and greens in the mix for this time of year! Today you’ll see how six clients have created six distinctive, beautiful vintage tablescapes.
A kaleidoscope of color is on this client’s wishlist for her reception tables. She asked us to mix it up when we select her vintage pieces which we are so happy to do!
This couple has embraced color which we adore! They will be setting tables in themes of green, orange, and yellow for their winter wedding. From the closeup to the long view, this will be dazzling!
This tablescape features not only colored goblets, but also napkins in the same color. The couple explored several options and landed on the place settings being a mix of cream and gold. It’s going to be quite lovely!
Vintage colored goblets add sparkle and so do the clear peg votives atop of the brass candleholders. The vintage plates fall under the bolder category, which means more even more color for guests to enjoy at their spring wedding.
Ahhh, classic blue and white suits any season but this wedding will be this spring. The bride and her friend are so excited for this day!
Green, amber, and gold are quintessential for a fall gathering. The colored peg votives and eclectic mix of brass candleholders will add a special spark to the tablescapes.
To us, it’s remarkable and wonderful that all of these clients have created their own unique, personal design. We are booking for next year and if you are interested in our services, please fill out the contact form and we’ll set up your consultation!
Two ah-ha moments occurred as we were planning this week’s blog post. The first happened while browsing our photo library and came across our very first wedding. It was October 2013, our first year in business. It’s hard to describe how exciting it was to book our first real event! While reminiscing about this day, the idea to feature one October event for every subsequent year popped into our heads. Our search began…
The second moment was finally figuring out how to add a slide show. If you’ll remember, we attempted to do that earlier this year but just couldn’t figure it out. So frustrating! Well, we are happy to debut our first slide show! Rolling back 11 years, each slide portrays one event that year in October. Being our first, it’s not as polished as we’d like but we are happy to have it up and running!
Photo credits – 2013-SVT, 2014-SVT, 2015-SVT, 2016-Live View Studios, 2017-Parent, 2018-JP Pratt, 2019-Samuel Holt, 2020-Becca Ames, 2021-Brian Anthony, 2022-Kasey Powell, 2023-SVT, Header-Joanna Sue
