Today I’m sharing a few tips that I find helpful in creating a really pulled together look for your treat tables. Where do these tips come from? Hours and hours spent pouring over food and home decor magazines and many a pretty candy buffet. I know, it’s a tough job! But if you do this with an eye toward the consistent and eye pleasing elements, you’ll find a few themes emerge.
Before we get started, a word about planning what goes on your table. In one of yesterday’s posts I discussed the idea of brainstorming the various textures, colors, etc you could use in your table. Once you’ve done that, it’s time to start a little planning. You’ll likely have way more ideas than you can and should use in one cohesive table design. This is where you have to exercise some self restraint and edit, edit, edit.
I’m a sketcher, so I always turn to pen and paper to get my ideas rolling. I’m sharing these sketches to illustrate my first point:
TIP #1: Pick a focal point to your table, center it, then arrange toward that focal point.
Your focal point could be anything as grand and singular as your wedding cake or a simply arranged series of glass vessels. Either way, I always think having the tallest element in the center of your table creates a arrangement that commands attention and says “look here! something special is going on”. It’s quite simply really…your eye wants something big and easy to find to land on first and then you can work your way out toward the “supporting cast” if you will.
One other thing these sketches illustrate – it’s important to define the space where your table will sit. You can do this simply with some paper or fabric banners (on the table front or above it), with some large balloons, Chinese lanterns, tissue paper pom-poms…you get the idea. A little something to “announce” the space will do wonders for pulling the whole arrangement together.
