St. Patrick's Day Table

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and rustic touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

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• Vintage St. Patrick's Day Touches
• Place Settings
• Plants
• Side Table
• More St. Patrick's Day Ideas

These St. Patrick's Day table decorations have the perfect amount of vintage charm, mixed with modern pieces.  If you're looking for some St. Patrick's Day table decorations that are vintage inspired you'll love this St. Patrick's Day tablescape.  I love a table setting for a special occasion and I had so much fun putting this one full of vintage treasures together.  I hope it's perfect for your St. Patrick's Day Celebration.

Vintage St. Patrick's Day Touches

Figurines

The star of the table and our table centerpieces has to be this little Irish couple of figurines that are music boxes.  I was lucky enough to find them at the thrift store.

They're pretty adorable.  They're not in perfect condition, but they look great here on the dining room table.  And they play the sweetest Irish tune too.

These figurines set the tone for the rest of the table -and inspired including some more vintage touches.  If you were looking something similar keep an eye open at your local thrift stores, or antique store.  If you couldn't find a vintage set of figurines you might be able to find something similar that's new to add a little charm and whimsy to the middle of the table.

Vintage St. Patrick's Day Cards

I found the vintage St. Patrick's Day cards at my favourite antique shop.  The store has lots of old cards from Christmas and Easter, but it was tricky to find these St. Patrick's Day ones.  It used to be common to send these post card greetings for a specific holiday in the days when sending a text or making a phone call wasn't possible.  On special occasions, it was common to send a cute postcard to family who lived far away, and let them know you were thinking of them this time of year, and missed them.  These often became little keepsakes.  What a lucky treasure!  They're so perfect for adding a vintage touch to your St. Patrick's Day party.  They have beautiful graphics on them of pots of gold, a leprechaun hat, Irish flags, four leaf clovers, and more cute St. Patrick's Day decor.  They're such a great addition to celebrating our favorite holiday.  Look for Easter postcards as well to add to your Easter table, or Christmas.

I added one to each plate, and then sprinkled the rest around the table top for our St. Patrick's Day celebration.  

I used a scrap piece of linen as a table runner for the table.  Irish linen is such a classic, so linen seemed perfect.  I love it's frayed edges and placed it in a really casual, crumpled way for our very rustic table.

Place Settings

At each place setting we wanted to use some gold and green colors.  We used rustic pottery plates, and gold flatware at each place setting.  These seemed perfect for St. Patrick's Day, since the gold accents reminded me of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The green glassware and green napkins add a little more of that signature colour for St. Patrick's Day.  Instead of using napkin rings, I tied the green napkins in a loose knot at each place setting for a casual elegant look.  Green goblets would be a great option too.

Plants

I also wanted to include some green plants on the table, and what could be more perfect than a shamrock plant?  We'll all be looking for a 4-leaf clover.  The green shamrocks were a nice alternative to flowers on the middle of the dining table for St Patrick's Day and a great idea to include.  I love also that that these lucky shamrocks will last a lot longer than cut flowers if you have a green thumb.  Four leaf clovers are considered lucky in Irish folklore, because most shamrocks have 3 leaves.  Finding a four leaf green clover is rare, so that's why it's thought to be lucky.  It was the perfect addition and took our saint Patrick's day table to the next level.

We used a few other plants for the lush green feeling on our themed table.  This ivy was such a pretty addition.

The cute cabbage sugar bowl with a lid is another one of the thrifted items.  Since there was no matching creamer, it wasn't a lot of money.  I got a little creative and using it as a planter for a little succulent was a great way to include it.  And it looks adorable stacked on some vintage green books to add a little height to the table, and another fun vintage touch.  A corned beef and cabbage dinner s such a traditional idea for a St. Patrick's Day party that I thought it was a great addition to our St. Patrick’s Day table decor.  It adds a little touch of Irish charm to the table.  The plants and books are a great addition to the center of the table.

The St. Patrick's Day table decorations turned out so well.  It feels fun and festive and beautiful.

Side Table

Behind the table on our little sideboard I added a few fun St. Patrick's Day touches too.

The shamrock garland is so easy to make.  I folded some brown paper like you would to make paper dolls and drew a shamrock on it, making sure it was edge to edge and then cut them out.  So simple and so cute.

The "I Feel Lucky" art is an easy DIY I made, you can find the tutorial here.

Our little sweet miniature sheep are another DIY -you can find out how to make them here.

The table is set, now it's time to celebrate all things Irish!

With a St. Patrick's Day tablescape like this, life is really a party!  Happy St. Patrick's Day!

More St. Patrick's Day Ideas

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