
A Romantic Yellow & Gray Dessert Table
This lovely, VINTAGE-STYLE DESSERT TABLE by Katie and Alice from KaLice Events was originally created for a wedding, but would be beautiful for an engagement party or vintage-inspired bridal shower as well!
50 handmade paper rosettes made for a stunning backdrop (great DIY idea for any theme!), and pretty accents like shimmery butterflies, lace doilies, love birds, and hanging crystals looked stylish & romantic in a palette of yellow, white and warm gray.
Read on for more lovely photos and all the creative details…
PARTY DETAILS, as told by Alice…
“The bride approached KaLice Events about designing a dessert table for her wedding {in Georgia}. She’s a big fan of doilies and wanted us to create a vintage-style dessert table in the colors of yellow, grey and white.
In order to incorporate the bride’s favorite dolies into our design, we decided to go with paper rosettes (aka lollies) as the backdrop for this dessert table. We did a mix & match using dollies and vintage looking paper and handmade over 50 paper rosettes in various sizes!
To go along with the Butterfly theme that the bride had used for her table number design and wedding favors, we added some “butterflies” as accent decor on a few of the paper rosettes, and also on the mini cups that held our homemade desserts. The handmade brownie flags are made out of Japanese Washi masking tape, which we adore! The white dessert stands with hanging crystals – together with the miniature wooden chairs & bird cage – added a distinctive vintage feeling to the entire design, and a doily-adorned banner reading “The Sweet Bar” tied all the details together!
Since there was already a 3-tiered wedding cake at the reception, we focused on an assortment of delicious treats to compliment the cake. The homemade desserts included white/yellow chocolate dipped pretzels, mini red velvet cupcakes, mini brownies with personalized flags, marshmallow pops, macaroons, etc.”

- Dessert Table Design & Concept: Katie & Alice of KaLice Events
- Photography: KaLice Events
- Homemade Sweets: KaLice Events
- Miniature Wooden Chairs: JoAnn’s
- Mini Bird Cage: World Market
- Grey & Yellow Floral Table Cloth: Target
- Craft Paper: Michael’s & JoAnn’s
- Dessert Stands: Various local storeS
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Absolutely GOR-GEOUS! One of my fav so far!
Love the cool fan backdrop!
I’m such a sucker for yellow and grey, and this display is just gorgeous! Love the papers used for the rosettes!
LOVE the fabric, backdrop and jewels on the cake stands!
I’m loving the color scheme. It’s so in right now. Very cool party.- Sarah http://agirlintransit.blogspot.com/
The backdrop is gorgeous!
Simply gorgeous! I love this color combo :)
The backdrop is killing me! Beautiful!
One of my favorite color combos, just beautiful! I have found Joanns to be a great place for party supplies. Just have to use your creativity as she did.
Wow! Would never have thought of putting these colors together! Grey-for a party? It’s looks gorgeous though and really different.
I LOVE the gray/yellow table cloth. Ah, that’s why we love Target!
Great job!
Love how elegant the yellow, gray, and white, look together. It has such a refined look, yet subtle. Love it!
I am DYING over this table!!! I already loved grey & yellow but these pictures are so gorgeous:) Thanks for sharing!
How beautiful!! :D
I LOVE this color combination and the paper flowers are awsome such a statement. It would work for so many different occasions.
I loove the gray and yellow so fresh and modern.
OMG… I just fainted!!! So wonderful. My fav colors too!
I LOVE this! I am hosting a baby shower this weekend and the colors just happen to be gray and yellow. I am totally going to use this as my inspiration for my dessert table. I also did a similar one for a bridal shower. You can do so much with this color combo!
Hi Jules –
Since you mentioned you’re throwing a yellow & gray baby shower, thought you might like to see this party too: https://www.hwtm.com/2011/02/bird-inspired-baby-shower-yellow-gray/ :)
In love with this backdrop. Need to do a red one for Ni Hao party {thinking}
love your color palette :) beautiful table
wow Awesome!! Have to have the cake stands wit crystals. love the color combo and rosette background!!
I love the simplicity of the grey and white – the yellow just adds that touch of fun and ties it all together. Amazing photoshoot and truly inspiring. Well done…
Stunning! I currently have the very same table cloth in my dining room.
This is amazing!! I love the color palette and the fans in the background are such a great idea. Nice find!
Love this color combination!! Very creative. Question: where did you get the round silver card holders?
beautiful just beautiful! I love the shades of color.
PERFECT
Yellow and grey is one of my favorite color combo’s! This is such a beautiful party! I LOVE those cake stands with the diamonds and the paper flowers make such a beautiful eyecatcher!
Thank you so much for all the kind words. We are so thrilled to be featured on HWTM! We have decided to recreate this and you can purchase the same backdrop (or in different color) on etsy!
BCCA-We got the round silver card holders at Michael’s.
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Hi, I love the colors and decorations so much. I want to make the collage of lollies for my wedding. Do you know how in the world they stuck them all together and what they stuck them on? I’m searching the internet for advice on how to do that and I’m finding nothing!! Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Kassia, we attached the rosettes using regular household tape. They stayed up on the wall without falling apart during the entire reception. Hope this helps!
Absolutely LOVE the rosette backdrop! I’d really like to know how you were able to attach it all together on the picture frame without ruining it? I have a venue for a baby shower with a frame I would like to cover with rosettes. Thanks for the help!
Thanks Kalena. We used regular household tape to attach them on the frame without any problem. They held up during the entire reception. Hope this helps!
I am doing a baptism for my son and I want a white and gray themed party with hints of pale blue. Very clean, simple, and pure. Anyone have any printables or ideas for baptism parties. Please email me!
WHY am I just seeing this… This is unbelievably gorgeous! I just love the pinwheels and doilies!!!
Ebony
Sparkling Events & Designs
thanks!
I have come back to this table so many times. It is one of my all time favorites and I would love to re-create this for my birthday in January.
Love your beautiful table setting! Would you mind sharing where I could find the cake stands with crystals? Thanks.
Hi I was wondering if you could share how to make that paper rosette backdrop I love the idea and would love to use it for my engagement party thanks so much !
I LOVE these colours and the table arrangement and paper pin wheel decor is stunning. I’d love to try to do a version of this for our wedding/dessert table decor. Thanks for sharing!
D
Thank you for the inspiration! I used this to make the backdrop for my nephew’s birthday! Everybody loved it! http://artfulgivings.blogspot.com/2012/05/big-one-in-one-evening.html
Looove this! I am hosting a bridal shower in these colors soon. I have 3 questions:
1) Where can I buy this tablecloth?
2) Where can I find the paper to make the backdrop?
3) What do you attach the backdrop to? Some sort of frame it looks like. What size?
Thx so much!! <3