St. Patrick’s Day Table

St. Patrick’s Day Table: a mix of vintage and rustic touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick’s Day table decorations.St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

These St. Patrick’s Day table decorations have the perfect amount of vintage charm, mixed with modern pieces.  If you’re looking for some St. Patrick’s Day table decorations that are vintage inspired you’ll love this St. Patrick’s Day tablescape.  I love a table setting for a special occasion and I had so much fun putting this one full of vintage treasures together.  I hope it’s perfect for your St. Patrick’s Day Celebration.

St. Patrick's Day table decorations

Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Touches

Figurines

The star of the table and our table centerpieces has to be this little Irish couple of figurines that are music boxes.  I was lucky enough to find them at the thrift store.

Vintage touches for St. Patrick's Day

They’re pretty adorable.  They’re not in perfect condition, but they look great here on the dining room table.  And they play the sweetest Irish tune too.

Vintage Irish inspired music box figurines

These figurines set the tone for the rest of the table -and inspired including some more vintage touches.  If you were looking something similar keep an eye open at your local thrift stores, or antique store.  If you couldn’t find a vintage set of figurines you might be able to find something similar that’s new to add a little charm and whimsy to the middle of the table.

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

Vintage St. Patrick’s Day Cards

I found the vintage St. Patrick’s Day cards at my favourite antique shop.  The store has lots of old cards from Christmas and Easter, but it was tricky to find these St. Patrick’s Day ones.  It used to be common to send these post card greetings for a specific holiday in the days when sending a text or making a phone call wasn’t possible.  On special occasions, it was common to send a cute postcard to family who lived far away, and let them know you were thinking of them this time of year, and missed them.  These often became little keepsakes.  What a lucky treasure!  They’re so perfect for adding a vintage touch to your St. Patrick’s Day party.  They have beautiful graphics on them of pots of gold, a leprechaun hat, Irish flags, four leaf clovers, and more cute St. Patrick’s Day decor.  They’re such a great addition to celebrating our favorite holiday.  Look for Easter postcards as well to add to your Easter table, or Christmas.

Vintage St. Patrick's Day card at a place setting

I added one to each plate, and then sprinkled the rest around the table top for our St. Patrick’s Day celebration.  

I used a scrap piece of linen as a table runner for the table.  Irish linen is such a classic, so linen seemed perfect.  I love it’s frayed edges and placed it in a really casual, crumpled way for our very rustic table.

vintage St. Patrick's Day card

Place Settings

At each place setting we wanted to use some gold and green colors.  We used rustic pottery plates, and gold flatware at each place setting.  These seemed perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, since the gold accents reminded me of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The green glassware and green napkins add a little more of that signature colour for St. Patrick’s Day.  Instead of using napkin rings, I tied the green napkins in a loose knot at each place setting for a casual elegant look.  Green goblets would be a great option too.

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

Plants

I also wanted to include some green plants on the table, and what could be more perfect than a shamrock plant?  We’ll all be looking for a 4-leaf clover.  The green shamrocks were a nice alternative to flowers on the middle of the dining table for St Patrick’s Day and a great idea to include.  I love also that that these lucky shamrocks will last a lot longer than cut flowers if you have a green thumb.  Four leaf clovers are considered lucky in Irish folklore, because most shamrocks have 3 leaves.  Finding a four leaf green clover is rare, so that’s why it’s thought to be lucky.  It was the perfect addition and took our saint Patrick’s day table to the next level.

Shamrock for St. Patrick's Day

We used a few other plants for the lush green feeling on our themed table.  This ivy was such a pretty addition.

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

Ivy and a vintage St. Patrick's Day card

The cute cabbage sugar bowl with a lid is another one of the thrifted items.  Since there was no matching creamer, it wasn’t a lot of money.  I got a little creative and using it as a planter for a little succulent was a great way to include it.  And it looks adorable stacked on some vintage green books to add a little height to the table, and another fun vintage touch.  A corned beef and cabbage dinner s such a traditional idea for a St. Patrick’s Day party that I thought it was a great addition to our St. Patrick’s Day table decor.  It adds a little touch of Irish charm to the table.  The plants and books are a great addition to the center of the table.

succulent in a vintage cabbage sugar pot for St. Patricks Day

The St. Patrick’s Day table decorations turned out so well.  It feels fun and festive and beautiful.

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

Side Table

Behind the table on our little sideboard I added a few fun St. Patrick’s Day touches too.

St. Patrick's Day art

The shamrock garland is so easy to make.  I folded some brown paper like you would to make paper dolls and drew a shamrock on it, making sure it was edge to edge and then cut them out.  So simple and so cute.

DIY shamrock banner

The “I Feel Lucky” art is an easy DIY I made, you can find the tutorial here.

"I Feel Lucky" DIY St. Patrick's Day art

Our little sweet miniature sheep are another DIY -you can find out how to make them here.

DIY miniature sheep

The table is set, now it’s time to celebrate all things Irish!

St. Patrick's Day Table: a mix of vintage and modern touches with lots of green for the perfect St. Patrick's Day table decorations.

With a St. Patrick’s Day tablescape like this, life is really a party!  Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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