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Table Decorations for Men's Birthday

Modified: Jun 18, 2025 · Published: Apr 16, 2015 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

Sharing ideas for birthday decorations for men using a brown paper runner, simple centre piece, DIY men's shirt blue bunting, and snacks for the birthday boy.

Men's birthday party decor ideas.
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  • Why We Love These Ideas
  • Table Decorations for a Men's Birthday
  • DIY Men's Shirt Bunting
  • Masculine Centrepiece
  • Birthday Number Favour Bags
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • More Inspiration

Why We Love These Ideas

  • These birthday decorations are simple and masculine, perfect for a men's birthday.
  • We used a classic blue and white color scheme.
  • Some of the decor is DIY and easy to make at home and personalize.
  • The bunting is reusable year after year.

A few days ago we celebrated my sweet husband’s birthday, and I put together a pretty handsome table for our family celebration.  Today I'm sharing some table decoration ideas for a men's birthday.  

We love a good party around here. He had so much fun with his 50th birthday celebration here. There was also that year we threw him an Oscar the Grouch party here. And if you're looking for more ideas for how to decorate for an at home birthday party, check out this post.

Living in a house of all girls, he’s always out numbered and always a good sport when it comes to being surrounded by pink and pretty.  Since this was his special day though, I wanted it to feel like him.  His favorite color is blue, and I was going for a casual, masculine vibe.

Men s birthday tablescape

Table Decorations for a Men's Birthday

Since it was casual (he requested take-out fish and chips for dinner), I started out with butcher paper, and then added in some easy blue accents.  We used a chalkboard to write "Happy Birthday".

Here's my tips for a masucline feeling tablescape:

  • Choose a color scheme, we used blue with some neutrals.
  • Keep things quite simple and un-fussy.
  • Let food be part of the decor.
  • Use elements like metal and paper or wood, that feel masculine.
  • Keep flowers simple with just one or two elements.

DIY Men's Shirt Bunting

The bunting flags are some that I made ages ago, but usually make an appearance for Father’s Day.  They’re made out of old thrifted men’s shirts, and I love all the blue stripes, and checks together.

table decorations for men's birthday

I even made a mini-version for his birthday pie.

How To Make It: To make the bunting find some old men's shirts at the thrift store, garage sales, or use old ones you have.  Use pinking shears to cut the large triangle bunting pieces and then stitch or even hot glue the tops to some ribbon or string.  

Men s birthday tablescape

Masculine Centrepiece

The centrepiece was simple, a beautiful bucket of white hydrangeas with a few pussy willow sticks tucked in. The pussy willows add a nice touch of brown, and some more texture to the simple arrangement.

table decorations for men's birthday

Birthday Number Favour Bags

For a personal touch, I made these sweet little bags of peanuts, one of his favourites. You could fill them with any yummy snack that your guy enjoys.  Or even use these as cutlery bags for napkins, forks, and knives.

I decorated the bags with every version of “52” I could think of…writing, printing, numbers, roman numerals, even “two score and twelve”.  I just used a blue sharpie to add them to the bags.

You could do this for any number depending on how old your birthday boy is.

Table Decorations For Men's Birthday

The peanut bags looked really great with the simple paper blue plaid napkins.

Table Decorations For Men's Birthday

I kept the place settings really simple too, with our everyday white dishes, paper napkins, and stemless wine glasses, which also work great for juice for the kids. Not too fussy, which helps add to the masculine vibe.

Our simple tablescape turned out great.

With table decorations for a men's birthday, life really is a party!

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I decorate for a birthday party at home without balloons?

Instead of balloons, make some bunting out of old men's shirts. Just cut into triangles and sew or glue onto ribbon. This decoration is beautiful and festive and reusable over and over again.

How do I keep the flowers for a men's birthday looking masculine?

Use flowers in just one or two varieties. Choose colors that are more masculine, like white, or blue. Keep the arrangement quite simple. Choose a container that is more masculine feeling like galvanized metal, or wood.

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Comments

  1. dnr says

    April 17, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks so much Barbara. The banner was simple to make; a few old shirts, cut and stitched on to some ribbon, you could even use glue. Thanks again.
    Dannyelle

  2. Barbara says

    April 17, 2015 at 9:52 pm

    I really like this table. It is so simple and yet so festive - just the kind of table I enjoy! I love your banner too. I would love to have one like that.

  3. dnr says

    April 16, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Thanks Mia

  4. Mia says

    April 16, 2015 at 4:24 pm

    This is nicely done. Love the mini-banner across the birthday pie!

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