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A Beautifully Spooky Halloween Dinner Party | Table Decor & October Finds 🎃
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items I love a Halloween table that’s spooky enough to be fun but still beautiful enough for an actual dinner party. 🎃 Here you’ll find my favorite Halloween table decor, embroidered linens, place settings, candles, serving pieces, and a few wonderfully u...
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Halloween Entertaining Worth The Splurge
Halloween Table Linens and Place Settings
Candles and Spooky Finishing Touches
Halloween Entertaining Worth The Splurge
These are the pieces that make the whole table feel like an event: the statement serving pieces, dramatic centerpieces, and seasonal splurges I’d happily pull out every October. Some are practical, some are absolutely not, and all of them make Hallow...
Next, you need a memorable centerpiece and these two spooky black Honduran clay jack o'lanterns (candles not included) would be perfect for the job. Set them amidst some less frightening white or orange pumpkins so they really steal the show. 🎃
Set of Two Black Clay Jack O'Lanterns | Joss & Main
I love collecting Le Creuset special editions. I gave my husband a heart shaped 1.5qt once for Valentine's Day. We use it year round. No ordinary cookware in our kitchen! 🙃
LE CREUSET 4 Qt. Pumpkin Dutch Oven with Lid | Macy's
Unlike what home magazines will show you, to set a spooky table, you don't need Halloween plates, Halloween glasses, Halloween silverware. Instead, go with one stunning tablecloth and let it do the work! This hand-embroidered spider and moth, 100% co...
Halloween Crewel Stitch Spider Tablecloth | Anthropologie
If you don't believe the “you only need one or two pieces to make the table Halloween” mantra, take a look at this candelabra. You could put it at the Easter or Thanksgiving table and immediately roll the clock back to Oct 31st. 😋
Spooky Tree Iron Wire Candelabra | Anthropologie
If you're not into spiders, try this 100% cotton hand-loomed, reversible, fringed, black and orange tablecloth, available in nine different shapes and sizes. DO NOT LOOK 😋 but they also have matching napkins, table runners, and placemats if you should decide to go with a solid orange or white or black tablecloth from your cupboard...
Mountain Weavers Cotton Halloween Tablecloth | Vermont Country Store
Halloween Table Linens and Place Settings
This is where the table really comes together: embroidered napkins, place-card holders, candleholders, and those little details everyone notices once they sit down. I like Halloween pieces that feel festive and a little eerie without turning the table into a costume shop. 🎃
A good set of Halloween napkins can make even a plain black or orange tablecloth from the cupboard look absolutely spooky! These two designs (each sold as a set of two in one design) are linen and hand-embroidered.
Halloween Embroidered Linen Napkins Set of 2 (2 Designs) | Anthropologie
Once I've gathered my show-stealing tablecloth and my centerpiece, I add little extras like place card holders or napkin rings. These Juliska pumpkins, in the orange or in the white, can double for Thanksgiving or other Fall occasions.
JULISKA Forest Walk Pumpkin Place Card Holder, Set of 4 | Bloomingdale's
A little spookiness goes a long way. Just look at these raven candles from Grandin Road! There are two, slightly different, and they come with flickering battery operated candles. Turn them on to make Edgar Allen Poe (and your long suffering high school lit teacher) proud. 🐦⬛
Gilded Raven Taper Holder, Set of Two | Grandin Road
These handmade linen napkins will easily spookify even a basic black or white tablecloth. Or, go look! They have the tablecloth and the table runner too!
Halloween Toile Linen Napkins, Set of 2 | Anthropologie
Candles and Spooky Finishing Touches
This is the fun part: the candles, napkin rings, odd little accents, and inexpensive extras that make the table feel playful and just a bit haunted. Nothing here has to be necessary. It just has to make me smile, make the room more interesting, or ma...
Here are the scene stealers! 👀 Whether you make them part of a centerpiece, display them in potted plants, or just leave one at each place setting, nobody will ever forget your party!
Eyeball Orbs, Set of Eight | Grandin Road
These are my favorite themed candles! These are not just ghosts; they are SQUIGGLY ghosts, which makes them so much more fun. It's a set of three and they are real (not LED) candles, so be careful not to burn past their cute little faces. 👻
Squiggly Ghost Taper Candles, Set of 3 | Anthropologie
There are all kinds of options for the perfect candles, including these purple, handmade beauties with embossed witch and broom. These are real candles, not LED. I love all the Anthropologie candles; it's hard to decide “witch” ones I want.🕯
Witch & Broomstick Taper Candles, Set of 2 | Anthropologie
Creepy! These midweight metal napkin rings (made of iron) will change any napkin into a Halloween delight. Or possibly a fright. They come in a set of 6 so you can traumatize 🕷 everyone at the table.
Spider Napkin Ring, Set of 6 | Macy's
Anthropologie has about a hundred million 👻 different Halloween candles (I also love the Witch Hat Tapers!) but these spider and webs are simple and elegant and go great with any creepy crawly theme.
Spider Taper Candles, Set of 2 | Anthropologie
Start looking for recipes! I like to decide on my menu first and let the theme find itself naturally. Once you know what will be on your table, then you can choose what your table should look like. Happy Halloween! 🎃
Easy Halloween Recipes | Pillsbury