13 Awesome St. Patricks Day Decoration Ideas

4. Be blessed by the luck of the Irish

Everyone fancies themselves Irish on St Patrick’s Day! Dress in green to be extra lucky and avoid getting pinched. Decorate with symbols of good luck like horseshoes, shooting stars, rainbows, gold foil coins, dice, acorns, ladybugs, keys, and of course the luckiest of all, shamrocks and four-leaf clovers.

Bring good luck to your door with a shiny metallic horseshoe poster or hang the real thing for year-round luck. Scatter around some lottery tickets to add that extra excitement.

5. Host a shamrock celebration

A symbol of the renewal of spring, three-leaf shamrocks represent faith, hope, and love. The rare, lucky four-leaf clover appears everywhere that the holiday is celebrated. Go green with potted clovers in a variety of colors for table centerpieces or place bouquets with sparkly shamrock accents.

Set the table with shamrock cookies and festive cupcakes with lucky green sprinkles. Decorate anything with paper or fabric shamrocks. You can also opt to book an Irish pub on Peerspace, like this private Irish pub and speakeasy in Bayonne, NJ that comes pre-decorated with Irish memorabilia, including plenty of shamrocks.

6. Make a wish

Have you ever tossed coins in a fountain for good luck? To decorate your St. Patrick’s event, craft your own champagne fountain wishing well! A wee bit of green food coloring goes a long way to add to the fun and the fortune.

Host your party at this enchanting barn in Lovettsville, Virginia, which comes redecorated with chandeliers and fairy lights. Outside the barn, you’ll find photo ops galore, with an outdoor stone patio and a full-fledged vineyard.

7. Take advantage of knotty decorations

Make your St. Patrick’s Day décor stand out by including Celtic knotwork to the more familiar motifs. Intricate patterns are usually arranged in sets of three, which is the most favored Irish number — after lucky number seven, of course. Get printouts of fantastic animals like dragons or floral patterns from old Irish bestiaries for vintage contrast to your palette of Irish greens.

8. Put up Irish lace

For fun St. Patrick’s Day decorations, set the tables with traditional Irish lace or crochet, available from paper doilies to the finest needlepoint treasures. Irish lace patterns show up on fine crystal glassware, perfect for your dinner party. Irish lace patterns are perfect for beautiful, delicate garlands and table settings. If you are lucky enough to have access to heirloom lace, this is the time to display it proudly.

9. Use instrumental decorations

The harp is a special symbol for the Irish. Beautiful harp designs show up on everything from flags to linens to paper party table settings. Decorate a centerpiece or wall design with paper cutouts of harps — in shiny gold and green, of course. Play harp music at your event, and bring in a guest musician for extra good fortune.

10. Host a St. Patrick’s cocktail party

Green beer isn’t the only beverage to enjoy on St. Patrick’s Day, although it’s easy to make your own with a few drops of food coloring. Traditional drinks include stout beer, Irish whiskey, and Irish cream in coffee, which you can get after hours when you rent this traditional Irish pub in New York City. It’s a semi-private space with indoor and outdoor seating and food and beverage packages.

But if you’re at home, shamrock-covered paper cups and plates add a festive touch or take it up another notch with stenciled glassware. You simply cannot have too much bling on St. Patrick’s Day, so try food-safe glitter to rim drinks and sprinkle on appetizers.

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