How To Style Your Easter Table

Whether you're hosting Easter brunch, or Easter dinner, it's sure to be a happy and delicious occasion. Easter is always such a wonderful weekend focused on friends and family gathering together around fabulous food and lots of fun. Make sure that you do all your cooking and baking justice by spending some time carefully decorating your Easter table.

For a simple, spring-inspired Easter dinner table, keep the color scheme simple. By sticking to white and neutral colors for the tableware and serveware, you'll immediately make your room feel light and bright. You can then dot around whichever bright Easter colors you want, in the form of flowers, candy, napkins, and candles, and you don't have to worry about anything clashing, as it's all centered on a white base.

Easter candy shouldn't just be left for the kids to feast on. Make the most of all the colorful treats you have in the house for the holiday, and use them to add some brightness to your Easter table. Filling simple bowls with jelly beans, foil-wrapped eggs, and marshmallow Peeps will make pretty and delicious decorations.

Whether you're serving the cutest marshmallow Peeps cupcakes, or a decadent layered sponge trifle for dessert, we're sure that it looks amazing. Whatever you've made, don't hide it away in the kitchen: Set it out next to the dinner table for everyone to admire.

Bring spring inside by filling those empty vases with bright, fresh flowers. Bunches of sweet peas, tulips, and ranunculus will add a stunning array of yellow, pink, and white to your home. Just having a few bunches of flowers dotted around will make your guests think you've spent days preparing for the Easter celebrations.

Just because you're not a kid anymore doesn't mean you don't deserve some Easter candy. Give everyone his or her own little sweet treat by filling a small nest with a few chocolate eggs and leaving it by each place setting.

If you're an origami master, show off your skills by folding everybody's napkin into a perfect Easter bunny. Follow these instructions for a step-by-step guide to having lots of linen Easter rabbits adorning your dining table this weekend.

Make your meal feel like even more of a special occasion by giving each guest a specific spot at your table, marked by an Easter-themed place card. Either use a simple card with an Easter design on it, or, if you're feeling crafty, try making these adorable curious bunny place cards.

Chocolate can be used to decorate as well as to eat: Easter is the perfect time of year to use chocolates and candy as more than just a sweet treat. Having chocolate Easter bunnies, candy chicks, and foil-wrapped Easter eggs dotted around the dishes, flowers, and place settings is a fun way to dress up your dining table.

Dried-out egg shells perched in egg cups make for beautifully simple votive candle holders. If you want to be extra fancy, you could dye the shell, before cutting the top off, and dropping in the candle.

By simply tying one fresh flower to a napkin with a bright ribbon, you'll be the adding the simplest, but prettiest splash of color and scent to your Easter table. This little addition to every place setting looks so pretty, romantic, and spring-like, and yet is so simple and easy to achieve.

You've put such an effort into cooking the perfect Easter meal, and that shouldn't be drowned out by too much table decoration. Let your food do some of the decorating for you: Put vegetables and sides in pretty, delicate serving bowls, and bring the spectacular main dish to the table to be served from there.

If you and the kids have been busy dyeing, decorating, and painting egg shells in the buildup to this holiday weekend, then make sure you show them off on the table. You don't want them to be cluttered and overwhelming, so pile them up in small white, silver, or mirrored bowls.

If you have a high ceiling, there is nothing more spectacular than a stunning Easter wreath hanging on string or ribbons above the center of the table. This centerpiece will bring a focus point to the room, but will be above people's eye-line, so it won't be in the way when they're trying to talk to each other.

Jelly bean carrots are the cutest and simplest party favors. To make them, just take a plastic pastry bag, fill it three-quarters of the way with orange jelly beans, and tie the bag closed with a green ribbon. Set a carrot next to each person's knife and fork for a sweet, tasty party favor.

If you're serving on a bare wooden table, or on a white tablecloth, add a splash of color by using simple strips of ribbon. Select a few different ribbons that go well together, and cut them into long lengths, at least a foot longer than the table length at each end. Lay them down the middle of the table, lengthwise, and stick them down with double-sided tape.