{Photo credits:  Top row: Martha Stewart Weddings; Bottom row:  Apartment Therapy, Martha Stewart Weddings}

TIP #2:  Work in layers and elevate your various table elements

Besides looking pretty, pedestal containers serve to elevate some of the smaller elements of your table and prevent them from getting lost.  This works particularly effectively with things toward the back of your table.

Don’t have have the necessary height in your containers?  You can create some really easy “platforms” using Styrofoam blocks wrapped in coordinating paper or fabric (just wrap it up and use pretty pearl head pins to secure).

Or you can be like me and start a ridiculous cake pedestal collection (eBay needs to be blocked from this computer!)   Either way, don’t let all the pretty things you’ve selected get lost on your table.  Elevate them to the stature they deserve and let them shine!