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14 Beautiful Christmas Centerpiece Ideas With Candles

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Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, gold ornaments

A lot of us are having guests over for Christmas this year and need to decorate the table. These simple, yet gorgeous Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles will help get you started.

This year, instead of eating at a plain old table, try creating a beautiful setting for your Christmas meal together with the family.

It’s something that we don’t always end up having time to do with all the hustle and bustle of the season. 

But it really makes a big difference when you go to sit down to eat.  Food is always more enjoyable in a beautiful setting surrounded by loved ones. 

Top Christmas Centerpiece Ideas with Candles

Use these Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles to help you create a magical Christmas table this year. All of these ideas can be used with real wax candles. But if you’re having kids at the table or just want piece of mind, try using flameless candles instead.

Some of these ideas involve using larger decor objects. That’s ok. Just move them out of the way when it’s time to eat. If you want guests to be able to see each other across the table, keep everything below eye level.

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Flameless Candles & Lanterns

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, lanterns, tray, Santa figurine, florals

Some of the easy to do Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles have both large and small elements to achieve an impressive look. 

Want to know how to decorate this Christmas table? Start by filling a wooden tray in the center of the table with several flameless candles and Christmas greenery. 

Next add a large, tall glass vase filled with berries and festive greens. 

Finish the look with several matching lanterns.  The lanterns can contain flameless candles as well as other Christmas objects such as Santa figurines, ornaments, pine cones, etc.  Whatever matches your decor!

Candle Lanterns

When it’s time to eat, simply move the larger elements to the floor or different area of the house.  This way you’ll have space on your table for the food and will be able to see everyone.

Cake Stands & LED Taper Candles

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, candle stands, taper candle holders, red berries

A lot of us don’t make cakes for Christmas, so why not put your cake stands to creative use? 

This look incorporates several LED pillar candles on cake stands surrounded by greenery, bows and red berry candle rings.  The glass hurricanes surrounding the Liown flameless candles give them a bit more depth, but you can omit if you don’t have them.

Flameless Taper Candles

Did you know they make LED taper candles?  Forget about cleaning up the wax mess involved with real tapers.  Just substitute in with flameless taper candles instead.

Glass taper holders are used for various Christmas table centerpieces with candles, but you can use whatever taper holders your have available.

Christmas Centerpieces for Round Tables

Round or square tables require a different centerpiece design than a longer table. Because of their thin size, taper candles can be used for round tables without a lot of space.

Christmas table decorating ideas involving the use of taper candles are always a beautiful look since taper candles are such a classic.

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, taper candle holders, gold ornaments

Just place taper candles and holders in a circle in the middle of your table.  Then surround them with greenery, berries, pine cones and other decorative accents. 

This is such a lovely Christmas centerpiece idea for round tables or even smaller square tables.  

Candles with Christmas Greenery

If you’ve got a few flameless candles that you use throughout your home during the year, why not put them all together for a centerpiece during the holidays?

This simple but elegant look is completed by tucking in greenery, faux flowers and a few small ornaments around the base of the Christmas table candles.

You might want to add floral foam block to keep all of the greenery together.

Christmas Candle Centerpieces

Like the look but don’t have time?  Floral centerpieces like this are available to purchase on Etsy and can be used year after year.

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery

You can also just use simple greenery garland. Fresh garland will give off a wonderful smell, while faux garland can be used again year after year.

Just be careful to make sure that the candles sit flat against the greens. You don’t want anything to catch on fire!

Tea Light Candles in a Wooden Box

LED tealights or real wax tealights would be perfect to use in any woodland themed Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles.

LED Tea Light Candles

You can use any kind of wooden box or tray. Complete the look by adding in small deer figurines, Christmas tree candles, fairy lights and moss.

Because of it’s smaller size, this makes a great Christmas centerpiece for kitchen tables, round tables, card tables or square tables.

Christmas Tablescape with Flameless Votives

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, candle hurricanes, French country candelabra, wood chargers

Of all the Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, this one looks complicated, but is really quite simple.

All you need is a strand or two of Christmas greenery and a few LED votive candles. This is another tablescape where some of the bigger items can be moved out of the way when you’re ready to eat.

I like how you can tuck LED votives into greenery without the risk of a fire hazard. They’re a little bit bigger than flameless tea lights so they add a bit of height to the centerpiece.

Tabletop Candelabras

This lovely holiday centerpiece has a lot of Parisian charm with the mercury glass orbs in the cloche and the chic candelabra.

Scandinavian Inspired Christmas Candle Centerpiece

Some Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles can be displayed all winter long. In this look, you can add a few red berry twigs to brighten it up a bit for the holidays.

When the holidays are over, the greenery can be removed or changed as spring rolls around.

Candle Holders

The look is very simple with rusted taper candle holders, live greenery and pine cone and has Scandinavian inspired vibes.

Flameless Candles on a Tray

Grouping candles or flameless candles on a tray is a good way to create a centerpiece for a round or square table.

The tray helps create a focal point for centerpiece. You can also move it out of the way if you need to make more room on the table for food. You don’t need to buy a special tray for Christmas – any tray you have can be made to look festive using some Christmas greenery, florals and ornaments.

Candle Trays

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles will work with either flameless candles or real wax candles. Did you know that Luminara makes a special kind of flameless candle that is designed to be used in centerpieces?

It’s called a 360 degrees flameless candle as the wick can be viewed from all sides. Traditional Luminara flameless candles have a curved back to help the light reflect, but the 360 degrees design is perfect for when your candles will be seen from all sides.

I talk more about the different types of flames for LED style candles in this post, if you’re trying to figure out what to buy: The Best Flameless Candles – Your Ultimate Buying Guide

Mason Jars with LED Tea Lights

Mason jars always make for cute and creative DIY Christmas centerpiece ideas using candles.

To add some glow to your jars, just use a flameless tea light. Fairy lights can also be combined with the tea lights for an extra glow. Look for fairy lights that are designed to work with mason jars.

Mason Jar Candle Holders

This elegant Christmas centerpiece uses a white runner, mason jars filled with faux snow. Christmas greenery, flowers and beading make for an enchanting winter wonderland tablescape.

Christmas Candles in a Bowl

Dramatic but easy Christmas centerpieces for tables always impress your guests.

I love this idea of using a large dough bowl or basin as a flameless candle Christmas centerpiece.

The key to something like this is using items that are tall enough to stick out of the bowl such as wine bottles or mini Christmas trees. I like how candle stands were used to give the LED candles some height along with the bigger decor pieces.

You could also do this Christmas centerpiece with candles surrounded by greenery and ornaments or candy canes.

The decor pieces don’t have to be too dramatic if you want to leave this on the table while you eat. That way you can still see people sitting across the table 🙂

Flameless Tea Light Candles with Ornaments

Ornaments are such a fun way to add a pop of color to your Christmas decor. I tend to use them all over the house for Christmas decorations, not just on the tree!

This is another easy to do Christmas candle centerpiece idea using a wooden box or bowl, LED tea light candles in glass holders, greenery and bright colored ornaments.

LED Tea Light Candles

Flameless candle centerpiece ideas can be so beautiful and festive. The table runner underneath the box adds elegance to the centerpiece and makes it look a bit more fancy.

A lot of companies these days are making rechargeable flameless tea light candles. This is so much better than having to constantly replace button batteries. For a list of places that sell rechargeable flameless tea light candles, check out this post: Where to Buy Flameless Candles – The Best Places to Shop

Candles with a Christmas Table Runner

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, candle hurricanes, taper candle holders

Here’s a very simple but elegant Christmas table centerpiece idea using a table runner as a way to pull the look together.

This Christmas candle centerpiece design calls for lots of different sized moving flame flameless candles in tall candle hurricanes. Glass taper candle holders and well as festive votive holders are also used.

A very modern, chic Christmas centerpiece with candles look that doesn’t involve the use of red, green, pine cones, greenery or anything else too rustic or farmhouse. This would also make for an elegant New Years Eve dinner tablescape as well.

Candle Centerpiece with Hurricanes

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, candle hurricanes

The combination of mercury glass hurricanes with rustic woodland elements makes for beautiful, elegant Christmas centerpiece ideas.

Candle hurricanes reflect the soft glow of the candles and can be fascinating to glance at throughout dinner.

Candle Hurricanes

Many flameless candle companies such as Luminara make flameless candles that work for this look: pine cone candles, birch bark flameless candles, mercury glass pillar candles, LED taper candles, sage green flameless candles and small rechargeable flameless votive candles.

This is a gorgeous seasonal decor tablescape that could take you from the beginning of fall all the way into spring!

New colors can be added in for Thanksgiving and Christmas to allow this centerpiece to change with the different holidays.

Big Candle Displays

When in doubt for Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, use a bunch of flameless candles!

I’ve talked about using big flameless candle displays before on this post: 15 Beautiful Home Decorating Ideas with Flameless Candles

Flameless Pillar Candle Sets

Big displays are awesome to use for elegant Christmas centerpieces as well. Simply round up as many flameless candles you can find around the house and arrange them in the middle of your table. Greenery, ribbons, ornaments and a table runner will help pull the Christmas candle centerpiece look together.

Don’t have that many flameless candles? Order a flameless candle set – many are reasonably priced and you’ll get a large number of battery operated candles to use in your decor.

Christmas centerpiece ideas with candles, greenery, pine cones

You can use lots of flameless pillar candles. Or mix and match by adding in tapers and votives. For a Christmas centerpiece with candles, ivory colored flameless candles can be used or try using festive colors such as red, green, silver and gold candles.

Flameless Candles for Christmas

It’s a quick, last minute way to wow your guests, while still being safe to use around kids. You could do this one with real candles, but it might get a bit hot!

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