I attended a wonderful event yesterday that I wanted to share with you all. My sister in law's church has a Ladies' Christmas Brunch every year. This was my first year to attend, but I sincerely hope it's not the last.
Each table had a hostess, who was responsible for decorating her own table and inviting her guests-most had 6, some had as many as 8. Each one brought their own china, flatware and glassware. It was so pretty looking over the room with all the colors of Christmas exhibited on the tables.
Our table had an emerald green cloth. We used my Christmas dishes and put a pedestal cake plate in the center of the table. We put a faux evergreen wreath around the base of the pedestal and topped the evergreen with a red berry wreath. Then we put my wedding chapel piece from my Snow Village on the cake plate, and a small trio of carolers beside the church. We sprinkled snowflakes on the wreathes, then tied up red napkins with sheer white ribbon and put a snowflake and a candy cane on each plate. We also had candy kisses sprinkled on the table.
We used her mother's gold-plated flatware and my "crystal" goblets-Dollar Tree bargains! But they look really, really fancy! LOL!
One table was especially gorgeous-black tablecloth, white china, silver candleabra with white candles and at each place setting she had a crystal vase with white roses and evergreens in them. She even used black velvet chair covers. It was so lovely.
Another table also stood out. She used a white tablecloth-btw, most of the tables are round. She used her wedding china from probably 50 years ago. It's white with a silver pattern, and she used white, silver and red glittery cones as her centerpiece. She used clear glass goblets and put red napkins in them, and then put cranberry red chargers under the plates. It was so, so pretty!
I had a blast-we had breakfast pizza, mini quiches, lots of fruit and a chocolate fountain! I've got to have one of those!! We had a guest who sang and another motivational guest speaker. It was great! I've posted pictures on my blog! Here's the link: http://www.holidayhamlet.blogspot.com
Hope you get some inspiration from this idea! I think I"m going to try to organize one of these brunches at our church for Valentine's Day. If I can't pull that off, I'll aim for next Christmas. We have about 1200 people in our church, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of response I get!!
Each table had a hostess, who was responsible for decorating her own table and inviting her guests-most had 6, some had as many as 8. Each one brought their own china, flatware and glassware. It was so pretty looking over the room with all the colors of Christmas exhibited on the tables.
Our table had an emerald green cloth. We used my Christmas dishes and put a pedestal cake plate in the center of the table. We put a faux evergreen wreath around the base of the pedestal and topped the evergreen with a red berry wreath. Then we put my wedding chapel piece from my Snow Village on the cake plate, and a small trio of carolers beside the church. We sprinkled snowflakes on the wreathes, then tied up red napkins with sheer white ribbon and put a snowflake and a candy cane on each plate. We also had candy kisses sprinkled on the table.
We used her mother's gold-plated flatware and my "crystal" goblets-Dollar Tree bargains! But they look really, really fancy! LOL!
One table was especially gorgeous-black tablecloth, white china, silver candleabra with white candles and at each place setting she had a crystal vase with white roses and evergreens in them. She even used black velvet chair covers. It was so lovely.
Another table also stood out. She used a white tablecloth-btw, most of the tables are round. She used her wedding china from probably 50 years ago. It's white with a silver pattern, and she used white, silver and red glittery cones as her centerpiece. She used clear glass goblets and put red napkins in them, and then put cranberry red chargers under the plates. It was so, so pretty!
I had a blast-we had breakfast pizza, mini quiches, lots of fruit and a chocolate fountain! I've got to have one of those!! We had a guest who sang and another motivational guest speaker. It was great! I've posted pictures on my blog! Here's the link: http://www.holidayhamlet.blogspot.com
Hope you get some inspiration from this idea! I think I"m going to try to organize one of these brunches at our church for Valentine's Day. If I can't pull that off, I'll aim for next Christmas. We have about 1200 people in our church, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of response I get!!
