Find summer table and centerpiece inspiration with themes and ideas ranging from nautical, seaside, tropical, or fresh-from-the-garden, for your outdoor entertaining and dining.
Happy Thursday!
I think that alfresco or outdoor dining is at its best when combined with a fun summer theme or activity! With a little imagination, you can be transported to a tropical or seaside locale, or celebrate the flowers or fruits of the season! I pulled together some summer table and centerpiece inspiration from the archives.
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and centerpiece inspiration for your summer dining!
A Tropical Table and Lake Breeze Cocktail
A tropical-inspired tablescape and cocktail for lakeside dining and sipping.
Hydrangeas and Butterflies Summer Table + DIY Hosta & Hydrangea Centerpiece
Welcome summer with hydrangeas and butterflies. You’ll find tips to create a hydrangea and hosta centerpiece and Hydrangea Frosted Cupcakes with Butterflies, easy and fun to make for a birthday, tea or garden party!
Lakeside Nautical Table and National Lighthouse Day
A nautical lakeside table in celebration of National Lighthouse Day
Lakeside Summer Table: Red, White and Blue and Nautical Too
Set sail into summer with some nautical fun on the dock and celebrate the red, white and blue.
DIY Blooming Watermelon Vase and Patriotic Table
Create a blooming watermelon centerpiece for the Fourth of July or summer entertaining.
DIY Summer Fruit and Flower Arrangement + Tablescape
A fruit and flower centerpiece and table on the porch
A garden-inspired table with blooming watering cans and a quilt for a casual alfresco table.
Anchors Aweigh and Nautical Table on the Pontoon
Nautical and patriotic fun for boating season!
All aboard on the pontoon, decked out from stem to stern, with anchors, ship’s wheels, red, white and blue, and stars and stripes
Seaside Dining Tablescape
A beach-inspired tablescape with the colors of sun, sand, and sea.
More Loggerhead Love Tablescape
Table inspiration from Loggerhead Sea Turtles and summer family vacation.
Dockside, Lakeside and Seaside Table for Two
A table on the dock to celebrate the last days of summer and DIY centerpiece with seashells and hydrangeas
Fantasy Island Getaway Tablescape
A fantasy island getaway and boating excursion tablescape.
A Caribbean {Floating} Island Picnic
The pontoon decked out with frolicking flamingos, tropical bunting and hula skirt swags with a Caribbean-inspired menu and picnic
You Say Tomato
Celebrating tomato season with a tomato centerpiece and Heirloom Tomato Pie.
Dockside Dining with Butterflies and Hydrangeas
Garden hydrangeas provide a centerpiece for a dockside table with Lenox Butterfly Meadow Cloud. Post includes an easy tip to keep cut hydrangeas from wilting.
Lakeside Limonata Table and Sparkling Cans of Flowers
Sunny lemons provided some cheery table inspiration in a tablecloth and dinnerware for lakeside dining. Sparkling Limonata cans are repurposed as vases for flowers.
DIY Lemon Vase Flower Arrangement and Alfresco Summer Table
An alfresco summer table with steps to create a lemon vase flower arrangement.
Mini lemon ‘vases’ are filled with garden blooms.
August Blues Lakeside Table and ‘Pitcher Perfect’ Limelight Hydrangeas
Embracing the August blues with transferware and Limelight Hydrangeas
Dining with Sunflowers on the Dock
Sunflowers meet a bright farmhouse plaid and blue water views
Lakeside Table with Sunflowers and Black and White Buffalo Check
Black and white buffalo check marry cheery sunflowers in a lakeside table for two.
Buzzing with Bees: DIY Flower Arrangement and Summer Tablescape
Celebrate summer with a DIY flower arrangement and table on the porch buzzing with bees.
I’m happy to *bee* a part of a Summer Tablescape Blog Hop next week!
I hope you’ll buzz back to find summer table inspiration from 19 table stylists on Tuesday, June 11th.
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Good morning, Mary. How could I possibly choose a favorite when each one is beautiful and magazine worthy. I do love ‘You Say Tomato’ and the watermelon vase, but then I can say that about each one. You always provide inspiration and fabulous ideas. Thank you for the opportunity to pull up a chair and enjoy alfresco dining at its best. Happy Thursday 💛💚
Creative mind exponential in designing tables! Just gorgeous, Mary! It’s hydrangea season here, and mine are doing great (finally), after three years of rejuvenation pruning and transplantings. Those tables caught my eye especially, but so did the seaside escapes. I love them all.
Oooohhh, the possibilities… Food for thought…Fourth of July… Serving pasta shells in a seashell…that one I’m trying… TY. franki
Incredible tables Mary, so many beautiful themes and summer settings! I haven’t set my table for the blog hop yet, this was just the inspiration I needed to get busy!
Jenna
Wow, Mary you have even outdone yourself! Truly amazing, makes me want to run to the cupboard and set my tables.
Absolutely amazing: the number of beautiful table settings that you have created! Each one is a masterpiece! Where do you store all the tablecloths and dishes & glassware? I am in awe of your creativity!
This is a gorgeous round-up. I love them all! The one that really grabbed my attention is the tablescape featuring the tomato centerpiece. I LOVE IT! :D
You are so talented Mary! You just blow me away! Gorgeous, gorgeous table scapes like always! Love the beauty and joy you send our way!
Beautiful combinations, much talent & time involved of course! I love looking at your ideas! Do you also have tips on storing your lovely linens? I love all my tablecloths but have recently thought of purging because they take up a whole closet! How do you make it all work?
Overwhelming creativity…. all are stunningly eye-catching, but the
nautical table is a “gotcha”…and I just love the beach feast with the
edible sand castle… you inspire in all areas ….
Wow, such variety. The tomato one is the most original
Mary, I’ve had the most fun today scouring through each of your beautiful table settings. Each one so unique and so many special touches that make them extra special.
I love the seashell ones especially right now as we are still at our beach house and shells are everywhere!
Thank you for sharing.
There is such beautiful inspiration in each photo! You are such a talented woman. Every table is better than the next. I have to say the tomato centerpiece stands out, but I love every other one as well.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful inspiration with us!
Mary, The tables are all beautiful and inspirational! I can’t pick a favorite because they are all my favorite! I love setting and seeing summer tables as they are so colorful and bright. Have a wonderful weekend! Clara❤️
Mary, such a lovely round-up of pretty tables for summer entertaining. There are some I haven’t even seen before, so it was a pleasure seeing more of your artistic talent. Each one is lovely and fun. I am so looking forward to seeing more on Tuesday at the summer tablescape blog hop.☀️
Mary, you should write coffee table books. Your pics and inspiration are unmatched anywhere, and that is the truth of it. Have a happy weekend.
You’re too kind Michele! {*blush*} Happy Weekend ♥