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Vintage Wedding Tablescape with Purple Goblets

Southern Vintage Table Events – A Vintage Purple Wedding

Let us introduce you to two lovely women, Kat and Larson. They met in college and fell in love. Last month, they declared their eternal devotion in a beautiful ceremony at The Honeysuckle Tea House in Chapel Hill.

Purple paired with green was a must in their tablescape design. These vintage goblets gleam on the tables and coordinate beautifully with their floral centerpieces. They selected these along with a mix of vintage plates with purple and green florals and white stoneware, salad plates, stainless flatware, a silver-plate tray for the florals, and bird figurines. (We loved this special touch!) Patterned and solid green napkins completed the place settings. A white easel and tiered glass plate were their final choices.

Bravo, Kat and Larson! Your wedding day was just as beautiful and sweet as you two! Congratulations for finding your perfect partner and wishing you all the best!

Thank you for using our services and for this amazing review. We are humbled by your kind words.

Vendors
Photographer: Brandi Leigh with Bellagala
Caterer: Cannon Catering
Venue: The Honeysuckle Tea House
Florist: Ken at Chapel Hill Florist
Rentals: Southern Vintage Table

Southern Vintage Table Event – An Intimate Vintage Wedding

Molly and Ben’s intimate vintage wedding was exactly what they wanted. Held at the beautiful Parlour at Manns Chapel, they shared one of their most important days with the folks dearest to them, their family.

The beautiful china pattern at the place settings is Grammy’s vintage Spode. What a sweet touch! We helped complete the settings with our vintage gold plated flatware, pink goblets, and dessert plates. Our vintage pink candleholders added one more lovely element to the tablescape. The final look is just what Molly envisioned – springtime elegance.

Our vintage pink coupes complemented this lovely look as seen below. We also provided vintage pink tumblers, clear goblets, and light blue goblets.

Congratulations, Molly and Ben! Your intimate wedding was magical, romantic, and totally you!

The Parlour at Mann’s Chapel
Timmester Photography
Beau Catering
Perfection by Patricia (hair and makeup)
Southern Vintage Table

PS – Thank you for the lovely review! We truly enjoyed spending time with you!

PPS – Molly was a star student and athlete at the middle school where I taught. Although I didn’t have the pleasure of having her as a student, I did teach her twin brother, who was delightful! Their mother was an A+ parent who actively supported the teachers and school.

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!

Features – A Tea for the Mitford Museum

“Mitford is not just a place to live, it’s a place that lives within us.” – Jan Karon (Bookeye)

It was our second trip to Hudson, NC to help with an annual fundraising tea at The Hub Station which houses the Mitford Museum. Many folks will recognize the fictional town of Mitford, aka Hudson, as it was the center of a series of 14 popular novels written by Jan Karon.

This annual tea, set to benefit “the museum’s plans to develop StoryLab, a facility that will house our oral history library, traveling exhibitions, and a creator’s space for youth,” was set for 140 guests. After days of preparation, we packed vintage teacups, teapots, sugar and creamers, luncheon plates, flatware, goblets, and platters.

After unpacking our very full van, we wandered around this historical gem, taking photos along the way. Once a public school, the town has created an art center for the community. Along with the Mitford Museum, a tribute to Jan’s fictional town, there’s local artwork donning the walls and in a shop known as The Red Awning Gallery featuring local artists creations, Three Doors Down which is a really cute bar, Junk Gypsy Angel Boutique, and Happy Endings Bookstore. Upstairs is where the magic happens – artists’ studios, art classrooms, a fiber art center, a performing arts studio, and a music studio. There’s even a cool space called “Creations after Midnight Studio.”

To find out more about the museum and hometown author Jan Karon, watch this video, “Learn About Best-Selling Author Jan Karon at the Mitford Museum | NC Weekend | PBS North Carolina.”

We look forward to hearing how everything went when we return to Hudson on Tuesday. Hope your week is filled with many happy moments!

Features – Roses On Vintage China

“There may be many flowers in one’s life…but only one rose.” – Anonymous

Happy Mother’s Day! We thought you might enjoy a vintage bouquet of roses represented on these vintage plates to celebrate this time-honored holiday. Roses given to a mother represent love, respect, and appreciation – a mother’s dream.

Features – Four Vintage Weddings and a Tea Party

Numbers don’t lie; it was a busy weekend for Southern Vintage Table! Our vintage wares traveled to Raleigh, Pittsboro, Cedar Grove, and Chapel Hill to delight our clients and their 300+ guests.

Note: The photo collage shows examples of the vintage pieces selected by the clients and the circles are the packed items.

Event 1 – Tea Party at the Westroom in Raleigh

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15 Vintage Tiered Stands
40 VintageTeacups

Event 2 – Wedding at Fearrington House

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80 Blue and White Dinner Plates
60+ Blue and White Decor

Event 3 – Wedding at the Chapel Hill Carriage House

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100 Amber, Blue, Green, Brown Goblets
100 Stoneware Dinner Plates
150 Stoneware Dessert/Salad
100 Sets of Stainless Flatware

Event 4 – Wedding at The Parlour at Manns Chapel

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55 Pink, Blue, Clear Goblets
34 Champagne Coupes, Tumblers
12 Sets of Gold Flatware
20 Dessert Plates
5 Pink Candleholders, 6 Votives

Event 5 – Wedding at Windy Hill

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156 Floral Dinner Plates
156 Pink, Green, Blue, Yellow, Peach, Amber, Teal Goblets
156 White Dessert Plates
128 Champagne Coupes
156 Sets of Silverplate Flatware
95 Brass Candleholders with Clear Peg Votives

Southern Vintage Table Events – A Wedding in a Majestic Chateau

Hidden away in the small community of Barclayville, is a grand home – a majestic, old world-style chateau. Once known as Barclay Villa, the Chateau des Fleures is an impressive venue that’s the perfect backdrop for a storybook wedding.

Gabrielle and David’s wedding marked the beginning of the new year for us. As you can see, the beauty of the chateau is amazing, but there were details that these two also brought to create a unique, personal wedding reception. Notice the small trees in the center – these original pieces were crafted from metal by a family friend. Aren’t they marvelous? With their beautiful iridescence and our vintage colored goblets and place settings, the tables glowed with color.

Bravo, Gabi and David! We loved working with you two and wish you the best of everything! And, by the way, you win the prize for the best couple photo ever!

Features – Crafting Vintage Tiered Stands

Tea parties, which have been around since 1662, had their start with this historical event:

“… the first tea party was hosted in England. In 1662 Catherine of Braganza, the wife of King Charles II, hosted the first ever tea party on record following the marriage of her and the king. Queen Catherine was originally a Portuguese princess, born into the noble house of Braganza by her father, King John IV of Portugal. As a wedding gift to King Charles II and Queen Catherine, the Portuguese royal family gave her a casket full of tea.” Hackberry Tea

That’s fun to know, right? Well, 362 years later, tea parties have become quite the thing here and we have all the niceties to help you, including a tea party essential, tiered stands. Coming up in the next few weeks we have several parties booked and we need lots of them, so we are crafting a few.

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We are well on our way – just 3-4 more to fashion. After we coordinate the stand with a teapot, tea cups, small plates, creamer and sugar, and platter, we’ll be ready for our clients’ tea party!

Feature – A Tulip-Inspired Purple Tablescape

Tulips are a favorite flower for many folks, including us! We knew that their beautiful shape and range of colors would provide the inspiration for our new tablescape featuring the regal color of purple.

Did you know tulips once grew wild in Central Asia? About 1000 AD Turkey began cultivating them and named them tulips which is Turkish for turban. Once they were brought to Europe in the 1500s, their ever-increasing popularity was sealed – everyone adored these delightful blooms and that love continues today. – Bloom and Wild

We gathered a vintage floral topper, grass chargers, napkins, gold flatware, vintage plates featuring purple, and vintage purple goblets. In a variety of purple vases the tulips were arranged. Lastly, we selected petite art pieces and vintage postcards, green and purple candles, clear and green peg votives, and brass candleholders. Our plan was to leave the basic place setting and florals in place and switch out the decor to see what impact they would have on the overall design.

In this series of photos, you’ll note the purple candles and vintage post cards.

In each of the photos below, we switched out a few decor details to see which we liked best.
Top left – green peg votives; top right – purple candles; lower left – clear peg votives; lower right – green candles. Also, note each setting has its own lovely petite art piece to enjoy!

In the end, the tablescape with the purple candleholders and vintage postcards was our favorite; however, we also believe that isn’t a wrong choice!

Features – Daffodil Inspired Vintage Tablescapes

A harbinger of spring is the arrival of these sunny, happy flowers – daffodils! Their rich yellow color invites us to smile and get ready to greet warmer weather filled with bird songs and the fresh green of nature.

These daffodils, provided by Fernrock Farm, inspired us to design two vintage tablescapes that embraced their golden color. In the first, we filled blue and yellow vases with the flowers, set the table with blue and white vintage plates, yellow goblets, gold flatware, and different napkin patterns. Petite art pieces were placed with each setting to add to the eclectic look.

Notice the round grass chargers? They are new to our offerings, available up to 65 guests. Their lighter hue is quite lovely with these two spring tablescapes.

Now to a quick change-over to a green vintage tablescape. This design featured four different vintage plate patterns, vintage green goblets, green vases filled with the same daffodils, vintage green votive-topped candleholders, and four different napkin patterns. The vintage gold flatware and grass chargers remained on the table.

Thank you, Fernrock Farm, for providing the sweet daffodil focus for these two vintage tablescapes and for today’s blog! We look forward to a new floral inspiration as the growing season opens up. Happy Spring, everyone!