'Tablescaping is my happy place': Event planner Tara O’Connor shares her secrets

Eve Kelliher gets tasty entertaining ideas from professional event planner Tara O'Connor

Tara O'Connor, The Designed Table.

Discovering professional event planner Tara O’Connor’s attitude to tablescaping makes you think of all the good things in life — mindfulness, chilling out and having fun.

But surely arranging cutlery and polishing glasses when expecting visitors to her own home must feel like a busman’s holiday? Not a bit of it. It’s entertainment central at the family residence in Co Kildare. “Tablescaping is my happy place and relaxes me. It brings me so much joy,” says Tara.