22 Festive Christmas Table Setting Ideas

Display a gorgeous holiday meal with these holiday-ready table setting ideas.

Black and white Christmas table with garland decorations
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Janet Kwan

Use these Christmas table decorations as inspiration for all your parties this holiday season. Each Christmas table setting is packed with easy, inexpensive decorating ideas, including festive centerpieces, custom place cards, and holiday place settings.

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Pops of Pink

Pink and green Christmas table

David Land

Colored glassware and miniature bottlebrush trees make for a whimsical Christmas table setting. Use ribbon and a miniature tree to elevate simple, white napkins. Complete the colorful table setting by placing ornaments in a decorative bowl and down the center of your table to make an elegant centerpiece.

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Elegant Christmas Table

Christmas table with garland decor

Janet Kwan

Elevate your dining table this Christmas—literally—using copper pipes to build a frame to hang garlands above your table. Place the structure in the middle of your table, and decorate it with garlands, paper snowflakes, and string lights. Keep the rest of your Christmas table setting simple to let the greenery shine.

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Vintage Christmas Table Setting

Christmas table setting with a Santa plate

Jay Wilde

Dust off your vintage Christmas plates for this table setting idea. Whether thrifted, antique, or passed down through the family, vintage plates with Christmas designs take the spotlight in holiday table settings. For an extra festive touch, use colorful glassware that matches the plates for a cohesive Christmas look.

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Miniature Wreath Table Setting

black and white Christmas table setting

Jay Wilde

This Christmas table setting uses natural accents to create a modern look. Place black and white dishes on a round wood charger, and finish the setting with a miniature wreath and handwritten place card.

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Repurposed Place Setting

Place setting with sheet music and candles

Adam Albright

Sheet music is good for more than just singing. Repurpose sheet music to your favorite carols to create this neutral Christmas table setting. Use the sheets as a place mat look or wrap them around pillar candles for a centerpiece idea. Let the sheet music take center stage with burlap accents and simple white dishes.

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Dried Fruit Centerpiece

Christmas table setting with dried orange slices

Carson Downing

Dried orange slices are an easy way to add a pop of color to an otherwise neutral tablescape. Choose monochrome dishes and scatter the orange slices down the center of your table. Accent with eucalyptus leaves and small flowers to tie the table together.

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Natural Touches

thanksgiving table evergreen centerpiece and cranberry
Marty Baldwin

Entwine classic holiday greens with cranberry and wood bead garlands for an extra-festive Christmas table setting idea. Make your own tabletop garland in just four simple steps. Keep your Christmas dinnerware simple and elegant, and let the centerpiece shine.

Store the fresh evergreen in the refrigerator before use.

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Easy Greenery Centerpiece

minimalist holiday table with white runner and sprigs of natural elements
Thayer Gowdy

Greenery transforms a plain piece of fabric into an artful runner in under five minutes. Using a mix of materials (like pine and evergreen), trim sprigs to different lengths and add a few bright berries. Spaces between the sprigs create places for bottles of wine or serving dishes.

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Farmhouse Place Setting

simple winter place setting with evergreen sprig and sheep
Adam Albright

Add a fresh yet stylish look to your Christmas table with woven willow chargers and a basket filled with cotton and fir clippings. Finish each spot with a gold figurine and simple cream-colored pottery.

Use a classic gray-striped tea towel as an oversize napkin.

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Copper Christmas Table

green and copper table setting with lantern centerpieces
Adam Albright

Flickering lanterns, bottle brush trees, and vintage green dishes make this Christmas table setting idea as holiday homey as it gets. Simple white chargers and bold copper wine glasses add texture and color to the theme.

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Buffalo Check Table Decoration

black and white plaid holiday place setting with red mailbox
Adam Albright

Place a red toy mailbox at each guest's spot and fill it with your annual holiday card. Complete your playful Christmas place setting with a buffalo check placemat, napkins, and bright green bottle brush trees.

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Simple Place Setting

personalized Christmas place setting with snowflake dish
Adam Albright

Grain sack napkins, flocked pine, cotton balls, and white porcelain dishware are all you need to create this farmhouse Christmas table. Finish each place setting with a snowflake-shaped dish and a simple handwritten name card.

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Christmas Village Centerpiece

christmas village scene farmhouse dining room table
Adam Albright

Christmas villages aren't just for decorating your mantel. Bring them into the dining room to create a festive holiday centerpiece. Accent the village with colorful bottle brush trees, fresh greenery, and a simple cream table runner.

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Center Stage Display

dining room table Christmas candles
Joyelle West

If minimalist farmhouse style is your aesthetic, consider this rustic-meets-modern Christmas table. Plant paperwhites in low galvanized planters and place them in the center of the table. Scatter green glass bottles around to complete the scene.

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Woodland-Inspired Table

dining table with brass deer, candles, greenery and cinnamon rolls
Adam Albright

Break out your brass candlesticks and put them to use for a charming Christmas table setting idea. Arrange them around a fresh greenery garland, brass reindeer figurines, and a cake stand for a simple, yet elegant, look.

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Christmas Dining Room

modern Christmas dining room with pendant lights, trees and graphic walls

David Land

Don't stop at just the table! Create pretty Christmas chairs. Attach sprigs of evergreen to a wreath form with florists wire. Hang from each dining room chair using a colorful ribbon.

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Red and Black

place setting with pomegranate and eucalyptus leaves in black bowl, gold cutlery, and red plaid napkin
Lucy Ancheta

A trip to the market inspires this fresh Christmas place setting. Arrange bright red pomegranates in a simple black bowl to create a bold look. Add fresh greenery and tartan-print napkins to complete the table.

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Greenery Centerpiece

Christmas centerpiece with pomegranates and candles
Jay Wilde

When setting your Christmas table, don't forget the colors of the season. This is an easy Christmas decoration to make in a pinch. Simply add red pomegranates to a greenery garland and accent with brass candlesticks.

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Christmas Village

christmas place setting with chipboard houses
Adam Albright

A collection of cardboard Christmas houses adds festive cheer to this simple Christmas centerpiece. Arrange them on the table with colorful bottle brush trees and cut evergreen branches. Finish the display with patterned dishes and a mini house at each place.

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Silver Christmas Table

Dining table with Christmas décor
Kritsada Panichgul

Mix mercury glass votives with a table runner crafted from boughs of greenery to add a little shimmer and shine. This Christmas table setting idea is completed with a festive flower arrangement, varied vintage silverware, and candles.

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Easy Elegance

white hydrangea flower table centerpiece
Greg Scheidemann

Go formal without going over the top with these Christmas table decorations. Small touches of iridescent accents and embellished crisp linens give a fresh yet refined look. Circle a centerpiece of all-white flowers with a border of green and red apple wedges. This arrangement contains pale hydrangeas, seeded eucalyptus, and a handful of strategically placed gold ornaments.

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