Celebrating Galentine’s Day with a Light Luncheon

Hello, dear friends, and welcome to a sweet Galentine’s Day luncheon! I wish you all were here to celebrate a Valentine’s Day fête with me, but since that isn’t possible, this virtual celebration will be our little jubilation. <3

With the holidays over, I’ve taken the leaves out of our antique oak table and shortened it to what I like to call “brunch size.” I love having it in a square because then I can pull out my round tablecloths and we get a whole different look!

I found this cute tablecloth at the same time as the vintage Santa tablecloth from HomeGoods last fall (not sponsored). It reminds me of the round Shabby Chic ruffled pink roses tablecloth I used to have.

I spent one spring tearing out the linen closet looking for it as I knew I had one, but then I finally realized that I used its fabric to make a basket cover for a folding wire rolling cart. That was wonderful at the time and was good for walking around at flea markets.

Now I wish I had it back in its original state… 🙁 But finding this cutie makes me happy!

For our Galentine’s Day table, I’ve set out the spring green and terracotta Wedgwood Sarah’s Garden dinner plates as chargers. I topped them with a variety of Limoges and Austrian vintage plates with pink roses as dessert and underplates to our soup course.

And I baked oatmeal chocolate chip cookies recently so a few of those went onto this little cupcake plate. Man, those cookies were good! :)’

I brought over the little heart topiary pot from the living room centerpiece since I didn’t have a bouquet of flowers. These hearts are a perfect stand-in as our table centerpiece!

Their cheerful red brings out the red of the flowers in our tablecloth, which I love.

This Valentine table was really fun to put together with vintage teacups & saucers plus wine glasses for water glasses. In our virtual luncheon, we have creamy tomato soup along with freshly baked French bread, hot out of the oven.

And for dessert, of course, we will have those yummy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. 😉

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As we adjourn our Galentine’s Day luncheon

Wintertime is the best time to photograph in our dining room because the trees are leaf-free so light just pours into this space in the afternoon. With that, I am half-tempted to create a ton of tablescapes and photograph for the whole year! Love this light… 😉

Again, I wish you were really here! At the teas I hosted in California, I would usually have a small gift for each guest and I surely would have done that here.

Have a great Valentine’s Day and week, everyone, and I hope you have enjoyed our cheery table today!

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Hearty warm hugs,