Find summer table and centerpiece inspiration with themes and ideas ranging from nautical, seaside, tropical, woodland, pollinator-inspired, tropical, patriotic and fresh-from-the-garden for your outdoor entertaining and dining. You’ll find DIY floral arrangements, flower arranging tips, creative centerpiece ideas and seasonal decorating inspiration for summer entertaining.
Happy Thursday!
I think 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, celebrate the flowers or fruits of the season, or bring the beauty of nature right to your table.
I pulled together some summer table and centerpiece inspiration from the archives. Whether you’re planning a lakeside gathering, patriotic celebration, garden luncheon, or casual dinner with friends, you’ll find plenty of ideas for flowers, centerpieces, table settings and seasonal entertaining.
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and centerpiece inspiration for your summer dining!
Buzzing with Bees and Blooms Lakeside Table + DIY Floral Centerpiece
Celebrate summer’s pollinators with a bee-themed lakeside table featuring a garden-inspired floral arrangement filled with cheerful blooms, buzzing bee details and plenty of summer charm. You’ll find flower arranging tips along with inspiration for creating an easy seasonal centerpiece.
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.
Stars and Stripes Forever Lakeside Tablescape
Lakeside table celebrating the red, white and blue with pocket napkin fold and DIY Patriotic Party Favor Cones.
A table on the porch with a patriotic tree and galvanized three-tier stand makes an easy centerpiece to celebrate the Red, White & Blue.
Red, White and Blue Ridge Tablescape
North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains provide a blue back drop for our red, white and blue dining! Blue bottles in varying heights provide vases for an easy and casual table centerpiece.
DIY Woodland Trayscape Floral Arrangement and High Country-Inspired Table
Bring the beauty of the mountains to the table with a woodland-inspired trayscape and floral arrangement filled with natural textures, rustic charm and high-country inspiration. You’ll find an easy centerpiece idea perfect for summer entertaining, cabin dining or anyone who loves bringing the outdoors in.
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.
Lakeside Tea Table with Peonies
Take pleasure and drink in the floral notes at a lakeside tea table and setting. You’ll find an easy technique and recipe for Rosette Cookies with Almond Buttercream, a sweet treat and pairing with China Rose Petal Tea.
Anchors Aweigh and Nautical Table on the Pontoon
All aboard on the pontoon, decked out from stem to stern, with anchors, ship’s wheels, red, white and blue, and stars and stripes for some nautical and patriotic fun for boating season!
A beach-inspired tablescape with the colors of sun, sand, and sea.
Table inspiration from Loggerhead Sea Turtles and summer family vacation.
How to Make a Seashell & Floral Centerpiece for a Seaside-Inspired Table
Add some coastal charm to your table and find the steps to create a flower arrangement and centerpiece incorporating shells for a seaside-inspired summer table setting.
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
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.
Alfresco Table Buzzing with Bees and Summer’s Last Hurrah
Summer’s last hurrah and getaway to North Carolina’s high country and table 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 16 table stylists on Tuesday, June 9th.
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You really know how to set a table! I really enjoy looking at all the details. You are so creative, it inspires me. Thanks for sharing.