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Southern Vintage Table Events – Vintage Color Stories: Part Two of the Garden Club Celebration

In our first post, we shared several of the stunning tablescapes designed for the Hillsborough Garden Club’s 100th Anniversary Celebration at the Union Grove Barn — each one uniquely vintage, each one a celebration of creativity.

Today, we’re thrilled to feature the next four color themes, each offering its own personality and charm. From soft pastels to bold jewel tones, these tables showcase how vintage china, glassware, and flatware come together to tell a story of elegance, community, and timeless style.

Midcentury Blue – A charming mix of midcentury blue china patterns paired with dusky and light blue goblets created a serene, sophisticated table. The soft gradient of blues evoked calm waters and timeless style — a perfect nod to the elegance of vintage design.

Retro Charm – Next is a funky mix of midcentury plates featuring pops of orange and playful patterns brought a lively, cheerful energy to the table. Paired with orange and yellow goblets, this setting glowed with warm, vintage sunshine.

Spring Revival – A joyful mix of yellow and green china patterns bloomed with floral designs and bold midcentury motifs. The combination of soft blossoms and vibrant colors created a fresh, garden-inspired table full of vintage charm.

Easygoing Greens – A relaxed blend of Currier and Ives classics with midcentury green patterns set a welcoming, nostalgic tone. Paired with sunny yellow goblets, this tablescape felt effortlessly cheerful — a nod to simple gatherings and timeless charm.

Autumn Romance – A wonderful mix of brown floral china patterns paired with pink and brown goblets created a warm, vintage elegance. The soft pink tones added a touch of sweetness to the rich autumn hues — perfectly cozy and timelessly romantic.

Every setting was thoughtfully curated by club members using our collection of vintage dinnerware, colored goblets, and gold and silver flatware. The result? A feast for the eyes — and a perfect reflection of this remarkable milestone celebration.

As we wrap up this second look at the Hillsborough Garden Club’s 100th Anniversary Dinner, we encourage you to visit the Hillsborough Garden Club’s website to learn more about the club’s rich history, mission, and the meaningful community work they continue to do. You’ll also find information about upcoming events and ways to get involved with their ongoing efforts to beautify and preserve the town they so dearly love.

Before leaving Union Grove Barn, we took a quiet moment in the garden near the flowing waterfall — a peaceful spot where the sounds of water and the glow of evening light offered the perfect ending to a celebration filled with friendship, flowers, and vintage charm.

Southern Vintage Table Events – In Full Bloom: Hillsborough Garden Club Celebrates 100 Years

🌸 The Hillsborough Garden Club’s 100th anniversary celebration was truly in full bloom! 🌿 Members and guests gathered to honor a century of gardening joy, friendship, and flowers. And with so many gorgeous photos from the evening, we’re having the most delightful dilemma — deciding which ones to share first! 📸✨

We were delighted to set the tables in the most colorful way — each one inspired by a garden’s palette: pink and green, orange and yellow, purples, blues and greens, and soft pinks. The sweetest touch? Every guest enjoyed their own unique vintage place setting — a reflection of nature’s delightful variety – on one of eight colored themed tablescapes.

Flowers shared by members were artfully arranged by Rachel of TreBella Florals into charming white pumpkin centerpieces — a perfect nod to the season. The anniversary’s tiered carrot cake, lovingly baked by member Liz and adorned with sunny sunflowers, was the sweetest grand finale. 🌻

Cannon Catering provided a wonderful meal, special guest Bryce Lane inspired the crowd, and each guest was invited to take home a beautifully wrapped donated book — a token of gratitude for celebrating this blooming milestone. 💐📚

We have many more lovely images to share and these will be posted on next week’s blog. Look forward to enjoying the remaining four tablescapes!

Vintage Orange and Yellow Garden Club Tablescape

News – A Vintage Toast to 100 Years of Gardening and Growing with the Hillsborough Garden Club

A year ago, we met with Liz from the Hillsborough Garden Club to begin planning the tablescapes for their centennial celebration — and this Tuesday night, the big event finally arrives!

In preparation, we’ve been busy washing and packing an array of vintage treasures — dinner and dessert plates, gold flatware, clear water goblets, sparkling champagne coupes, and a colorful assortment of glass goblets to match each table’s theme.

While the overall look has been slightly refined from last year’s design meeting, the color palette remains as joyful and garden-inspired as ever — elegant purples, rustic greens, bold yellows, earthy browns, bright oranges, delicate greens, and those dreamy midcentury shades of soft blue, teal, and green.

And in true Southern Vintage Table style, every member will enjoy their meal on a different vintage plate — each one with its own story, pattern, and personality.

For this talented group of flower growers, these tables are going to be bursting with color, charm, and vintage character — the perfect way to celebrate a century of beauty and blooms!

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

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!

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

Southern Vintage Table Events – A Glorious Day for Cortney and Christian

On this perfect June day, Cortney and Cameron were wed under the trees at Oxford’s Highrock Farm with family and friends present. Every facet of Cortney and Cameron’s wedding was breathtaking – the scenic view, the gorgeous venue, and beautiful vintage blue tablescapes. These exquisite photos by Madison Snedker Photography tell it all!

Cortney’s vintage design included vintage gold and white plates paired with soft blue china patterns. She mixed the vintage dusky and light blue goblets and added vintage gold flatware and the table numbers in vintage frames. We love how the vintage blue goblets twinkle on the tables!

Cortney and Cameron, your wedding was spectacular! We loved working with you and appreciated your kindness and joyful spirits. Best wishes for a loving life together!

Photography: Madison Snedker Photography
Makeup: SJ Beauty
Hair: Hair by Abby Nelms
Venue: Highrock Farm
Dress: Simply Blush Bridal
Flowers: Stephanie Garrett, AIFD
Vintage Tableware: Southern Vintage Table

Southern Vintage Table Events – An Exquisite Vintage Blue and Pink Wedding

The dusky blue and pink theme of Kaitlyn and Mark’s vintage wedding was exquisite. Coordinating a wedding with these two colors turned out to be dramatic, eye-catching, and oh-so romantic. Thank you, Brittany Cruse, for your amazing photographs!

Kaitlyn and Mark’s wedding was quite special, not only because it’s beautifully designed, but because the touches of North Carolina in the centerpieces memorialize Kaitlyn’s dear mother. Kaitlyn wanted to remember her mother’s love of teaching, especially the history of her home state. From the mountains to the sea, there are pinecones, seashells, wooden pedestals, greenery, flowers, and endearing photos of Kaitlyn and Mark.

Added to the tablescapes were touches of vintage brass vases, goblets, and cricket boxes along with stacked vintage books, decoupaged shells, and mini artwork. J’adore! These charming centerpieces were packed with sweet meanings and beauty.

Notice how the pink goblets were paired with the pink dinner plates, dusky blue with the blue plates, and contrasting salads on each. The eclectic, vintage, and sophisticated place settings were stunning.

Bravo, Kaitlyn and Mark! It was our extreme pleasure to be a part of your wedding day and wish everything wonderful in your lives together!

When Kaitlin came to the studio to design her reception tables, we were all excited about the meaningful touches that were added to the centerpieces. Many thanks to Priscilla, Kaitlyn’s friend and mine, who had a hand in this charming mix.

And, lastly, thank you, Kaitlin for your lovely review!

Stunning Tablescapes Beautiful Design brought to life with help from Shelly and her stock room full of different colored glass, china, and decor. Truly was able to show my personality and theme of my wedding through the tablescape. Looking for an opportunity to use Southern Vintage Table again! – Kaitlyn

Venue – The Cornealius Properties
Photography – Brittany Cruse
Florals – The Cornealius Properites
Caterer – Funky Fresh
Vintage Tableware and Decor – Southern Vintage Table

Honeysuckle Tea House Vintage Tablescape with Props

Styled Shoot – Welcome to Camp Honeysuckle

A styled shoot is the ultimate fling for folks in the event business – the theme can be anything, vendors open up their offerings and skills, whether it’s inventory, photographic skills, food, florals, music, drinks, and yes, even cigars, and a true collaboration begins. We usually participate in a couple each year and the one featured today was truly one of our favorites. Camp Honeysuckle at The Honeysuckle Tea House included all of the elements that make a camp experience fun!

Events by Rebs visited the studio and together we designed 3 different vintage tablescapes – pink, yellow, and green/blue to coordinate with three of our vintage kitchen tablecloths. They included retro bold vintage plates, napkins and rings, flatware, and tumblers. New to our offerings are the woven placemats. Sprinkled around the shoot were many of our vintage props – on the tables, at the welcome and photo backdrop, and on the food table. The final look is so campy and Amy Ellis Photography captured it all for us!