A Night At the Symphony and My Easter Table

Easter week was a fun week for us. The night before Easter Sunday we went to the San Francisco Symphony with my oldest son's family. They gave us the tickets at Christmas as our gift. It was a live orchestra playing the soundtrack for the movie ET as the movie played behind them...

To say it was a wonderful experience would be an understatement. To be able to share it with family made it even that much better.

If you ever get a chance to go to a performance like this I highly recommend it.

It was fun dressing up and going out to a nice dinner in the private dining room, Wallis room right at the symphony hall. The meal was delicious and the service was impeccable.

Before we left we took some pictures......

It was fun to get all dressed up.

My sweet hubby and his antics was making me laugh!

The next day we had a wonderful family day. We missed one of my son's family, he had to work.

I promised I would show you all the finished Easter table so here it is.......

This years table I decided on a pink and black color scheme. I also decided to do a cute table, with pink and white candy on the table and little bunnies with carnation tails as name cards at each placesetting.

I wrote everyone's name in black at an angle on the pink bunny. The bunny template was found on Matthew Mead's blog, here.

 The candy turned out to be a fun addition for everyone that ate pieces throughout dinner.

One of the dishes I fixed was roasted honey carrots. I love to buy the multicolored carrots. I think they are almost as pretty as colored Easter eggs.....

Thank you for following along with me on my journey and I hope you and your family had a wonderful Easter.

 

 

Plans For This Years Easter Table In Our New Home

   

If you haven't planned your Easter tablesetting you still have plenty of time to pull it together. This is how I start!..

FIRST: I look around on pinterest pinning different images that I am attracted to.  I also look at the pins I have pinned from the past. At this point I am looking at color schemes and elements that I like.

I almost always start with a color scheme, I find it helps give me a direction or jumping off point.

Here is a collection of images that caught my eye that helped me lean towards this years color scheme.......

If I were younger I would SO wear this!!

I really love the simplicity of this vignette and the flowers are perfection.

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I would imagine you have figured out my color scheme by now!

Black and white with soft pink!!

The next thing I have to decide are the elements that I will use.

First I always shop my home!!

1. Tablecloth.... black, white, or black and white checked
2. Dishes... All white
3. Glassware.... clear goblets
4. Napkins.... All white

 

Now for the center piece!!

 

I have a darling white bunny that I have used in years past....

 

 

This is the year that I did a soft blue and white color scheme. Mr. Bunny Boy is quite tall, and  he makes a nice statement!

The next step is to incorporate other elements that will tie in with the color scheme, and the main star Mr. Bunny boy!

When choosing elements I look for ideas around the internet, and then I  choose a few that will work nicely with the overall look. I find that choosing 3 elements is an easy formula to follow, and that way your table will not look like a  hot mess once it is done. Too many elements will make for a busy look.

 

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Choose one star and then supporting actors for the stage you are about to create.

I  pinned a some ideas a couple of years ago that I loved, and this is the year I will use them.

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Matthew Mead did a beautiful combination of all white and this little guy was among his elements..

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I just loved this idea and I will be using this on my table this year and tweak it a bit to go with my over all look.

You can see I am still staying within the bunny theme, and now I have introduced one of the flower choices I will be using. 

Next I saw this idea and it inspired me as well........

 

When I saw this I immediately thought of my little white egg cups that I already have. Sooooo I bought artificial pink tulips that I will put in an egg cup and I am taking it one step further and adding an egg to the inside of the tulip. 

 

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Since Mr. Bunny boy is tall and thin I will add votive candles around him and I plan on sprinkling pink and white M&M's on the table, fun, festive and a little treat my guest can nibble on too.

So there you have it!! My Easter Table Plan for this year. Let's go over all the elements.......

1. Black , white or checked cloth
2. White napkins
3. White dishes
4. Clear goblets
5. Big white Bunny boy with soft pink flowers in his basket
6. Soft pink bunny silhouette with white carnation as tail on top of napkin
7. White egg cup with soft pink tulip holding a white egg with guest name in black at each place setting.
8.  Clear glass votives with soft pink votive candles or plain white.
9. Pink and White M&M's sprinkled on table

 

I think I am set, or at least my table will be set!

 

If you need more inspiration just type EASTER in the search rectangle on my side bar and it will give you a line up of all my Easter post!!!

 

For more visual inspiration I have some Easter Boards on my Pinterest page. Just click on the titles below...

 

EASTER 

 

Easter Soft Blues and Whites

 

Easter Black and White

 

 

 

My Dress Choice For A Formal Wedding!

    

This past weekend was so fun for us. We traveled to Los Angeles for a beautiful wedding of two very special people. The wedding was magical to say the least. It was a formal affair held at the Ace Theater. I could do a post on just this venue alone. It was built in 1920's for Universal Studio to show its movies. Back in the day all the studios had their own theaters to show their films. This is the only one left standing in it's original condition.

Since it was a formal affair I needed to find a dress that would be appropriate. I am going to show you my options I had to choose from and then my final choice.

 I absolutely ♥♥♥'d this dress, however see the way the arms cut in a bit? Well, that just did not look attractive on me, but the dress itself was amazing with the pearl encrusted collar, a classic in my book. If I wore this dress I would have worn some low strappy black heels, with a pearl bracelet and simple pearl earrings.

This classic beauty with it's portrait collar and pearl and rhinestone brooch has an amazing back......

I lightened the picture so you could see the back. I just love it and it fits like a glove!! By the way I kept this classic beauty as well as the dress I chose for the wedding, it was such a classic, forever dress and it fits like a glove too good to pass up!!

Since the wedding is a formal affair a long dress would be appropriate for sure. This dress has simple lines and just a little black sparkle at the waist with side belts.  I would actually wear black sparkly pumps with this dress and black sparkly chandelier earrings.......

This is a simple, yet elegant dress in a stunning cobalt with just a touch of bling. I would wear this with rhinestone chandelier earrings, rhinestone bracelet, silver sparkly pumps and a glittery purse.....

 

Now for the outfit I actually chose .....

I was so proud to be on the arm of my handsome husband!

 It was a magical evening. Seeing two young people, that are so in love, share vows from their hearts.  It brings back so many beautiful memories of my life with this wonderful man! Thank you to the beautiful bride and groom for allowing us the privilege to share in your special day.

Sweet Memories of our special day 46 years ago and to think he is still my sweetheart!!!