Creative Ways to use Christmas Decorations Around the Home

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Elevate your Christmas table setting

Set the mood for delightful gatherings and cosy conversations around the Christmas dinner table with our annual, limited-edition Winter Wonders collection. 

Over six years, a new theme and colour is released, each inspired by an aspect of a traditional Irish winter. This year, Winter Rose reflects the subtle colours and patterns of a delicate, flowering rose through stunning crystal artistry.

Add a subtle hint of colour to your Christmas table setting by delicately placing rose-coloured baubles on placemats or to weigh down any napkins/serviettes. Complete the red Christmas table theme by adding rose-coloured tumblers, wine glasses and champagne flutes to your dining table layout for an extra special touch.

Create a festive centrepiece bowl

Enhance the Christmas spirit with a festive centrepiece elegantly placed on your dining table, kitchen bench, or console table. Fill your centrepiece with frosted pine cones, small branches, string lights, and some of our exquisite icicle & snowflake ornaments to bring the magic of Christmas around your home.  

Our stunning range of luxury crystal bowls are perfect for this and are sure to make a statement. With a wide range of sizes available, they’re suited to any table size.

Hang crystal ornaments from your fireplace and garland

Whether placed on the tree, hung from the fireplace, or added to your Christmas garland, Waterford’s range of ready-to-hang crystal ornaments offer some of the finest Christmas decorations for the home. 

Beautifully presented with a branded white satin ribbon and finished with a metal tag to mark the year, our crystal Christmas ornaments are truly made for moments that sparkle. 

Keep the ambience flowing with a musical playlist suitable for the unique tastes of the group you’re inviting. If a variety of generations will be attending, choose tracks that span the decades. Keep the music upbeat, and accessible to everyone, with enough tunes so there are no repeats or interruptions. Keep the volume at a level where everyone can chat from a distance without struggling to be heard.

Make your entryway and staircase glisten

Greet your guests in style and merriment by decorating your entryway and staircase. 

Add a decorative Christmas wreath to your front door for a warm and festive welcome, customise the garlands in your entryway with golden ornaments or hang some crystal ornaments up the banister of your staircase to create a delicate sense of luxe this Christmas. 

Scatter crystal Christmas decorations around your living areas

Last but not least, decorate your Christmas tree

We couldn’t have talked about Christmas decorations for the home without mentioning decorating the Christmas tree. 

From golden ornaments and coloured baubles to religious Christmas decorations, our beautiful and vast collection of crystal Christmas decorations are filled with luxury and seasonal cheer that truly captures the heart of Christmas. 

Visit our Christmas Hub to discover stunning Christmas ornaments and celebrate the season with meaningful and unique gifts.

How to Host an Elegant Outdoor Party

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Prepare your backyard

Start refreshing your outdoor space by planting some flowers, giving your outdoor furniture a good clean and placing some textured cushions and throws on seating for your guests.

Setting up a large main table with allocated seating is one of the more conventional ways to anchor your get-together, though it’s far from your only option. A more cocktail-style outdoor party is often a great alternative, with an open seating plan and flowing food so guests can get up and mingle instead of being confined to their set seat.

If the lawn is dry and the sun is out, laying down blankets and floor pillows will allow guests to spread out and move around. Set up a long bench or table as your food buffet and drinks station, or surprise everyone by making up individual picnic baskets that let everyone feast on the grass.

For during the day, remember to have some places with shade so your guests can get out of the direct sun. Use string lights, candles, and other soft lighting at night so they can see well enough to move about and have conversations with others.

Choose a theme

There is no age limit to having a theme for your party. And it’s not just because themes are loads of fun; they also give your planning a much clearer steer when it comes to choosing all your other elements.

Whether you’re bringing your nearest and dearest together to celebrate an engagement, a housewarming, a sip and see party, a cocktail party or a special age birthday, having a theme makes the food, drinks, decorations, music, games and dress code so much simpler to navigate for both you and your guests. A fun theme and its props help keep conversations flowing too.

Dress your outdoor space

A gorgeous spread of food and drinks plus a sunny outdoor backdrop are the ideal foundations for creating a fun, positive atmosphere – but why stop there? 

Outdoor parties are rare opportunities to surprise and delight your friends and family, and going the extra mile with decorations is a great investment in memory-making. So realise the potential and dress up your outdoor space with bright tablecloths, colourful lanterns and elegant crystal candlesticks to transform your place settings into feasts for your guests’ eyes. Then use tableware and crystal glassware to elevate the entire food sharing experience so it’s much more elegant than a by-the-numbers backyard sitdown.

Seasonal flowers and foliage in dazzling crystal vases are an elegant way to mix and match textures and inject colour and fragrance to brighten up your dining table. 

Keep the ambience flowing with a musical playlist suitable for the unique tastes of the group you’re inviting. If a variety of generations will be attending, choose tracks that span the decades. Keep the music upbeat, and accessible to everyone, with enough tunes so there are no repeats or interruptions. Keep the volume at a level where everyone can chat from a distance without struggling to be heard.

Serve Spring-inspired cocktails

Need a list of zesty, sparkling, crowd-pleasing springtime cocktails? You’ll find them all here. Just be ready to do them justice by serving them in beautiful crystal champagne flutes and other crystal cocktail glasses. If you need to upgrade your drinks cart for the event, explore our guide on the 5 essentials for your outdoor bar cart.

Don’t forget the mocktails

Provide some light bites

You’ll be busy enough on the day as it is, so try to cook – or at least do most of your prep – the day before your event. If you’ll be seating all your guests at the main table, consider having platters of easily self-served, family-style dishes so you won’t need to do any plating up. Alternatively, a steady stream of trayed light bites and appetisers is worth curating if you’re going for a more casual, cocktail-style event with a more flexible timetable.

Make sure all the effort you go to with your cooking and prep are showcased as feasts for the eyes too, by presenting them in elegant crystal serving bowls.

Don’t let your guests leave empty-handed

Depending on the reason for your party, it might be appropriate to give each guest a small gift as a memento of the day and as a symbol of your regard for them. If that’s the case for you and your nearest and dearest, peruse the range of exquisite gifts that are available from Waterford, to leave an impression that will never be forgotten.

Elegant Crystal Christmas Table Decoration Ideas

When you sit down with your nearest and dearest to eat, drink and be merry on December 25th, do so in style with decor that you can use year after year. 

If you’re looking for elegant Christmas table decorations for your forthcoming Christmas dinner, explore Waterford’s collection of crystal glassware that will make your holiday celebrations at home feel even more memorable.

1. Coloured glassware for a very merry table setting

Waterford has two exquisite ranges of coloured crystal glassware, each with the ability to instantly elevate the aesthetic of your Christmas table. 

The Lismore Black collection is a glamorously bold take on the classic, universally-loved Lismore drinkware design. Rich, eye-catching and impeccably crafted, this collection of goblets, champagne flutes and tumblers look especially stunning when contrasted with clear crystal adornments.

Alternatively, create a festive colour scheme for your celebrations with Waterford’s new Winter Rose glassware range, which serves as the next annual instalment of our 6-year Winter Wonders collection. 

The pattern of cuts in each of the six Winter Wonders designs represents a different Irish flower that blooms to triumph despite the harsh winters of the Emerald Isle – with a different bloom featured each year. Coloured a soft red, each of the rose petals in this year’s Winter Rose design is delicately outlined in crystal. A set of Winter Rose crystal glassware would make an elegant addition to your Christmas table this year, and would form part of a unique Winter Wonders set of six colours to be collected over the coming years. 

2. A modern crystal twist on classic Christmas ornaments

Christmas is at its joyful best when it’s overflowing with tradition and nostalgia, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little modern reinvention. 

A modern take on traditional spruce, fir and pine evergreens, this three-piece, three-tiered set not only makes a stunning and stylish centrepiece, it also creates a halo effect that enhances the beauty of your other decorative elements. 

Made from the finest and most luxurious crystal, each tree stands apart for its own distinctive cut pattern, yet as a set, they create an immediately recognisable and fondly familiar Christmas tree aesthetic. 

If you’re looking for an item full of wistfulness and magic but which also expresses a modern and sophisticated design, then turn your eyes to Waterford’s beautiful new crystal snow globe. As eye-catching on your mantelpiece as it would be as your centrepiece, you can be confident that where you find it at the end of your celebrations won’t be where you placed it at the start. 

3. Use modern Christmas ornaments as festive table decor

Elevating the natural beauty of a Christmas tree can be achieved instantly by trimming it with a cascade of Waterford crystal Christmas ornaments. And while these light-catching baubles excel when draped from the branches of a robust evergreen, they’re also versatile and unique enough to be used in other decorative ways too. 

One of the most popular ways is to place a selection of them in and among the other festive decorations on your dining table. It’s as simple as punctuating your linens, garlands, candles, servingware and delicious Christmas dishes with our crystal coloured baubles, classic snowflake ornaments, pieces from our gold Christmas ornament range, or any of the other beautiful items in our Christmas crystal ornaments range. 

4. Decorate the table with luxury crystal pieces

A lot of love, care and creativity will go into what you prepare your loved ones for Christmas dinner – but why stop there? Apply a similar positive energy toward creating the most beautiful of table centrepieces using dazzling crystal items from Waterford.

Add festive elements and eye-catching accents to one of our beautiful decorative crystal bowls, or put seasonal blooms and local foliage into one of our fine crystal vases. The elements you choose for your centrepiece and the way you combine them is only limited by your imagination, so let your artistic side run free this Christmas by creating something unique and beautiful.

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