AK Studio » table settings http://akstudioblog.com Behind the Scenes of Alexandra Kaehler Design Tue, 15 Aug 2017 11:56:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Fall Dinner http://akstudioblog.com/fall-dinner/ http://akstudioblog.com/fall-dinner/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0000 Alex Kaehler http://akstudio.coreytenold.com/fall-dinner/
Last week I had a couple girls over for a fall dinner. You might remember (from here and here) that I love to cook, entertain and decorate. We ate roasted butternut squash salad with arugula and goat cheese, herb and lemon chicken, wild rice salad and apple crumble. I didn’t get any pictures of the food (too busy stuffing my face), but the table was too festive not to share.
I also decided to use our wedding china. If I don’t use it when we entertain I never will, right?

all pictures by me
China is Kelly Wearstler for Pickard
And PS today I am over at The Now Stylebook sharing my obsessions of the week!

]]> http://akstudioblog.com/fall-dinner/feed/ 22 A Girl’s Valentines Day Dinner http://akstudioblog.com/a-girls-valentines-day-dinner/ http://akstudioblog.com/a-girls-valentines-day-dinner/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000 Alex Kaehler http://akstudio.coreytenold.com/a-girls-valentines-day-dinner/

The table! How perfect does my painting look with this setting? They were made for each other. Love my PartyPoms. 

A little closer… ahhh the flowers aren’t centered. Its killing me.

White CB2 plates, black floral dessert plates from Anthropologie. And no that isnt a jail cell on the top left, its the staircase up to our roof.

 A little floral arrangement I put together. Didn’t like how you could see the stems through the vase so I wrapped it in some ribbon. Love the way it turned out. And yes, I filled champagne glasses with pink M&Ms.


And even though I kicked my special man friend out of the house for the night, he still brought me these gorgeous flowers. I really heart him. Ohh, and you get a little peak at my little cake stand that I originally saw in Rue
And last but not least, some of the ladies who made this night so amazing. I am obsessed with your faces. Except mine. Why did I not get the “smile-like-a-human” memo?? 
(Dear MJ, Are you happy you have now been featured?!)

Hope you enjoyed the peak! We had so much fun. I plan on doing this every single year from here on out. Such a great excuse for a dinner party.

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On Friday I am having some girlfriends over for a Valentines Day dinner. We are planning on having a lot of this…
and although I am really excited for lots of fun and food, I am REALLY excited for an excuse to set a seriously pink table.

Here is an adorable Valentine’s Day setting… But a little more crafty than what I’m going for.


I love this ombre look. Pink to red is just perfection.

I also love this little candy wreath. This would be such an easy DIY.
These two tables are adorable. A total overload of pink sounds absolutely perfect.

I am also going to be adding in some black to go with some amazing little plates I want to use.


I’ll be sharing pictures with you on Monday, but in the meantime I’ve already started setting up, its just too much fun not to! Definitely taking some tips from my NYE table.

*sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9

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Tonight we are having a potluck dinner and cocktail party our apartment. I am so excited for my plans for the table and can’t wait to share them with you Monday! Since I don’t have any of my own pictures to share with you today, here is a NYE I definitely would not mind

A table that looked something like this

And would be more than pleased if I was wearing one of these

I definitely know I’ll have a whole lots of this on hand

And pink champagne waterfall would be pretty perfect too

Happy happiest New Years to all of you. What are you all doing tonight??

*sources: the decorista, design darling , pretty stuff, and design sponge

]]> http://akstudioblog.com/nye-10/feed/ 6 ready, set, go http://akstudioblog.com/ready-set-go/ http://akstudioblog.com/ready-set-go/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:46:00 +0000 Alex Kaehler http://akstudio.coreytenold.com/ready-set-go/

this weekend, im having some girlfriends over for dinner and in a perfect world, id set a beautiful table for all of us. sadly, i only have table settings for 6, and there are going to more of us than that. so instead ill enjoy these beauties.






i’ve realized my favorite settings are the unexpected ones. the blue and white china with gold and pink. the pink bow napkins. the orange zebra tablecloth with traditional plates. the champagne sitting in snow. i just love these details.

*sources: coco + kelley, apartment therapy and elements of style

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