Spring Salad Recipe for a Spring Dinner Party

Welcome to Southern State of Mind! Today is an exciting one because I am hosting a virtual Spring Progressive Dinner party. This includes a colorful spring tablescape along with a simple spring salad recipe to impress. I am thrilled to be hosting this fun “party”. If you are hopping over from Lindsay at Aratari at Home, HELLO! Grab yourself a sweet tea and meet me on the porch- it’s time to soiree! This post is in partnership with ChristmasTreeShopsandThat!

This is the first of four seasonal progressive dinner parties we will be hosting this year. The most exciting part is that we have partnered with ChristmasTreeShopsandThat! to showcase their fun seasonal items to help share inspiration for you to host your own soiree.

Since we can’t physically invite each of you into our homes, we figured this would be the next best thing! OK, let’s get to it. Let’s take a stroll out to the back porch.

Colorful Spring Tablescape

It is warming up here in Atlanta and I am getting excited to be able to host outdoor parties. For this outdoor tablescape, I mixed lots of fun spring colors of pinks and greens. And of course, no table of mine would be complete without my signature color blue. I had so much fun mixing and matching dishes and linens using lots of new finds from ChristmasTreeShopsandThat! along with some staples I had here.

When I was shopping and spotted these green lettuce bowls, I was immediately sold! These are so perfect for serving a spring salad and I love the way the green matches the blues and pinks.

I also snagged the blush pink place mats and the floral napkins that help pull all the colors together. The outdoor green striped pillows were a steal and they are perfect to brighten up the porch.

For the place card, I used a magnolia leaf. Just a gold metallic sharpie and a few leaves from the yard and you are all set!

To serve my spring salad, of course I couldn’t pass up this blue and white speckled platter. I have a feeling this dish (along with this salad!) will be a staple for me!

Simple Spring Centerpiece

When I saw these great faux speckled colorful eggs– I immediately knew they would make a great spring centerpiece. This colorful centerpiece came together using eggs and faux flowers from ChristmasTreeShopsandThat!, fresh tulips, and my go-to glass vase.

To make this, I just started with a large cylinder vase, and then added a smaller glass vase on the inside. This allowed me to place the flowers in water and still see the eggs. For the flowers, I picked up these faux flowers at ChristmasTreeShopsandThat! – don’t they just scream spring? And then I added a bouquet of fresh tulips. I love the way it turned out!

For my Spring Progressive Dinner, I thought I would serve a colorful spring salad. This is super simple, but the homemade dressing makes it feel like special. I found that dressing bottle at ChristmasTreeShopsandThat! as well. If you aren’t hosting, a bottle of homemade salad dressing would make a great hostess gift.