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Southern Vintage Table Event – Macie and Byron’s Woodland Wedding

The fall color palette with browns, oranges, greens, and creams is perfect for a romantic vibe, especially in a natural setting like Timberlake Earth Sanctuary. This beautiful natural area was the perfect location for Macie and Byron’s sweet and intimate wedding.

Brown patterned vintage china plates, clear water and wine goblets, and silverplate flatware were chosen for each place setting for a touch of charm and elegance. Layered on top were sweet personal notes for each guest and petite bouquets tied with twine. The earthy fall vibe was major with vintage brass vases filled with dried florals and brass candleholders donned with taper candles in hues of fall colors. From these awesome photos by Zephyr Tide, we all can see that Macie and Byron’s cozy, intimate, woodland wedding was stunning!

Macie and Byron, thank you for trusting us with your special day! It was such a joy working with you two to create your beautiful, boho-inspired, natural vibe fall wedding and an honor to be part of such a unique and personal celebration! Best wishes for a wonderful life together!

Vendors
Photographer – Zephyr Tide
Catering – Mediterranean Deli
Vintage Rentals – Southern Vintage Table

Scenes from SVT – Four Unique Vintage Designs

Every event is a story, a unique narrative of joy, celebration, and moments that will last a lifetime. At our studio, we have the privilege of working with diverse clients, each with their own vision and ideas for their special occasion. Last month, we had four amazing clients visit us—two planning parties and two planning wedding reception tables. Here’s a peek into the delightful planning journeys that took place at our studio.

Bailey and Jacob envisioned a sophisticated yet playful mix of colors and textures. Their vintage-inspired table with mirrored place settings, three distinct color themes, and layered plates will create a captivating atmosphere that feels both timeless and sophisticated, while the variety in goblets and floral details ensures the look feels fresh, elegant, and contemporary. Simply beautiful!

When Sammi decided to celebrate her 30th birthday, she knew she wanted the night to be as vibrant, creative, and fun as possible. She envisioned a party where her closest friends could gather, enjoy delicious food and drinks, and get inspired by the idea of setting new intentions for the year ahead. And that’s exactly what she created: a birthday bash filled with pink hues, eclectic mix-and-match napkins, and a unique twist—vision boards!

Alison and Landon’s wedding reception table settings were a beautiful reflection of their love for nature and timeless elegance. The mix of brown with white and gold plate patterns created a warm, grounded foundation, while the pastel goblets brought the light, playful spirit of spring to the table. They also are using vintage teacups for appetizers, tall champagne coupes, and dessert plates with the same theme. Gold accents will be added with gold flatware and brass candleholders.

To our chagrin, we didn’t get photos of Amaris’ vintage choices. But, we know that her holiday party was a beautiful fusion of festive spirit and elegant sophistication. The combination of pink and clear glassware, gold flatware, charming pink cake stand, and elegant appetizer plates, were carefully chosen to create a warm, inviting atmosphere where guests could relax, enjoy delicious food, and celebrate the joy of the season.

One thing is particularly clear: the details truly make an event. It’s all about creating an atmosphere that feels uniquely personal and reflective of the couple’s style or the celebrant’s personality. At the end of the day, our goal is to help our clients make every guest feel welcomed, special, and a part of something truly memorable.

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 – 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.

Vintage Feature – A Woodsy Vintage Tablescape

Wood, soil, coffee, pine cones, walnuts, peanuts, chocolate – all brown. This earthy, natural shade is rarely selected by our clients. Occasionally, our vintage brown goblets are chosen for their neutral color but the vintage brown plates are often overlooked. Today, we are elevating this woodsy hue in this simple vintage tablescape to show how brown is quite modern while being vintage.

This vintage brown tablescape is warm, eclectic, and lovely. Although we don’t believe that certain colors belong to any season, this earthy look would be perfect for fall. We have more vintage brown patterns of plates and goblets in our inventory in case you are interested in hosting a dinner, Thanksgiving, or fall party!

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!

Southern Vintage Table Events – Something Blue Wedding Shower

We had the extreme pleasure to help Kortney with a wedding shower she hosted for her sister-in-law, Autumn and beau, Elisha. To say that Kortney is a talented designer states the obvious and we’ve seen her marvelous design skills on another occasion – her own Baby Reveal Party held in 2020. She’s a natural!

This shower revolves around the color blue for a couple of reasons – to honor the adage “something blue” and blue is the color Elisha sees best. With vintage blue and white dishes, blue goblets, blue and white teacups, and two tiered stands the table looks spectacular. Kortney filled the vintage silver teapot and milk glass vases with stunning bouquets, and filled our blue and white heart dishes with her speciality sugar cubes. How adorable!

Congratulations, Autumn and Elisha! We truly enjoyed viewing the photos shared by Kortney – they beautifully portray your love and joyfulness!

There’s so much more to discover about this lovely gathering. Go to Kortney’s blog, Garden Brunch Wedding Party in which she shares both Autumn’s and her own perspective on the event, followed by more from the gallery of photos.

Designer – Kortney Sue Jacobs
Vintage Tableware Rentals – Southern Vintage Table

Southern Vintage Table Events – A Wedding at Two Silos

We all enjoy a sweet love story and today’s couple, Savannah and Sam, especially embody this sentiment. The two come from farming families in eastern NC and grew up on opposite ends of the same road.

Early on they became friends, dated in middle school, and then as high school seniors. Several years later, with their lasting love, they married at Sam’s property that had two silos on the former dairy farm, once owned by another family. After a year of restoration, the wedding site was ready.

The reception was held under a tent at the farm. Our vintage colored goblets and floral plates “tied it all together, ” remarked Savannah. We are so pleased to have provided these for their celebration.

Well done, Savannah and Sam! Your gallery of beautiful photos was so fun to browse and we almost feel like we were there, celebrating along with you and your many friends and family members. Best wishes for a wonderful life together!

Vendors
Photographer –Mak’s Makings (@maksmakings)
Florist – Madelyn’s Flowers and Gifts (@madelynsflowersnc)
Rentals –Chair & Equipment Rentals
Hair and Makeup – Melanie Nelms Baker (@allthingsprettybymelb)
Vintage Tableware Rentals – Southern Vintage Table (southernvintagetable2)

And, thank you for your kind words! It was truly our pleasure and honor.

“Shelly helped make our wedding day perfect! We rented floral dinner plates, silverware, and various colored goblets and they were absolutely beautiful. Shelly was very helpful and enthusiastic, would work with her again.” Savannah, The Knot