21 gorgeous Easter table decorations (2024)

FAQs

How do you set a pretty Easter table? ›

“Set a beautiful table with spring floral colors like pastel-hued placemats, napkins, and glasses. Add something playful and whimsical for the kids too, with a piece like our Hop Napkin Ring adorned with a cute bunny.

You can match the colors of the plates and dishes with fresh flowers and table linen. A quick and easy way to liven up a table and add focus to a room is with a table runner, such as this beautiful yellow and green example, easily complemented with a matching citrus-based fruit bowl.

When Easter is over and it's not time to decorate for summer, think about lightening up your decor and textiles. Take down all overtly Eastery items but keep using flowers such as tulips and blooming branches until you are ready to decorate for summer.

The traditional décor of the Easter table “requires” a tablecloth in white or delicate pastel colors - light green, blue, and pink. Whereas, a tablecloth with typical Easter patterns such as eggs, chickens, and rabbits will be even better.

The three main Easter colors are purple, white and gold. Purple and violet hues are typically used during the Lenten season in the lead-up to Easter. Easter Sunday's most prominent colors are usually white and gold to represent the holiness and triumph of the resurrection of Jesus.

Specific colors are associated with different days of Easter week, with purple for Palm Sunday, black and red for Good Friday, black for Holy Saturday, and gold and white for Easter Sunday.

On the evening of Holy Saturday (Easter vigil), or certainly come Easter Sunday, white or gold are used to celebrate the resurrection. The Easter color is used until Pentecost. On Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, red is used.

Depending on when Easter lands on the calendar and if you celebrate Easter, you can usually start breakout out the pastels, bunnies, and Easter eggs 3-4 weeks before Easter Sunday.

How do Christians decorate for Easter? ›

Easter Lilies and Flowers

White Easter Lilies symbolize the purity of Christ to Christians and are common decorations in churches and homes around the Easter holiday. Their growth from dormant bulbs in the ground to flowers symbolize the rebirth and hope of Christ's resurrection.

But when to start decorating for Easter? As with other holidays and festivities, there is no precise date (or rule!), though most of us usually start decorating around two to four weeks before Easter. In 2024, this would mean decorating from the weekend of March 2nd.