Recreate This Purim Table with Colored Baby’s Breath

With just the right touches of color, this Purim seudah table will take you seamlessly into Shabbos.

We invited Devorah Rubin from Adorn Your Table, our favorite source for new beautiful tablecloths, back to bring you a little Purim table inspiration.

Most often, you just need one simple idea to get you going and Devorah had the perfect idea.

This table begins with one of our new favorites, the Ribbed Velvet Tablecloth from Adorn. It’s the type that will never go out of style. It matches every type of tableware, every color scheme, every decor. It just works. But if you love printed tablecloths or something with a bit of color, this table setting idea will work just as well. It’ll also be beautiful with your elegant lace cloths!

Closeup of table set with a cloth, paper placemats, plates, flatware, candles and colored baby's breath in vases.

We love this idea because it brings in that fun color we want on our Purim table–but it’s not too much. Plus, you can keep it subtle and elegant, or play up the colorful aspect as much as you want.

Adding drops of yellow food coloring into a glass tumbler of water.

First, prepare your baby’s breath from a couple days before. Add water to containers or tumblers (you don’t need to do this in vases). The number of containers will depend on the amount of different colors you want. Add 4-5 drops of food coloring to each container and add the baby’s breath. It’s important to snip the ends of the baby’s breath first.

Baby's breath in a glass tumbler of yellow water. Yellow food coloring nearby.

The longer you leave the flowers, the more color you’ll have. Within 24-48 hours they’ll be really nice!

Closeup of colored baby's breath in vases on a set table.

Then, remove and place them in your vases in regular water. You want to trim the stems of the baby’s breath so the flowers begin right above the rims of the bud vases. When you have lots of little vases, the results are so pretty!

Even though you don’t need a ton (Devorah used just two bunches of baby’s breath total), the quantity of vases is what gives this a lot of impact. These are the vases used here –they are actually plastic and get 12 vases for the price of one! If you want to stick to glass, these bud vases are also ribbed and similarly priced and sized.

Table set with a cloth, paper placemats, plates, flatware, candles and colored baby's breath in vases.

If you want to add some fun color for Purim, pick a color from this pack of disposable placemats to add under your plates. If you want to go completely colorful, you can too!