Peony Season Table Setting

This June, our vases and bowls have been devoted to Peonies. I love them so. I love watching them day after day, transforming from one stunning shade and shape to the next. I love them when they’re a tight bundle of petals and I’m waiting, hoping they have big plans to open. I love them when they’re all the way open with just a touch of wilt to them, and the petals begin to fall off, gracefully, one at a time, until you try to pick them up to thrown them away and then, whoosh, a big pile all over the table complete with a yellow stain on the bright white table cloth. And since I’ve been all about the pink wine all month, just very simple whites and pinks both in flowers and linens was the way to go.   I started with a mix of medium pink and blush peonies.I found these antique wine glasses this month at a new little flower store in the neighborhood. They’re from France in the ’50s and the striped are etched. They were such a perfect contrast to my champagne coupes with dots that I couldn’t resist them. I love to mix and match patterns and colors and I think you’ll be seeing these a lot this summer. I can even see them as parfait glasses for little desserts. Even the little butter dish I used for lemon slices for the water glasses is all about the pink, dots, and stripes. Can you make out the stripes on these two-tone white candles?For whatever reason, the blush peonies survived the longest. I kept trimming them, every other day or so, so that they’d keep drinking water. Eventually, they were transferred to a low bowl and they were wide open. The theme remained the same, all month long. Peonies, rosé, rinse, repeat.