Do you do a centerpiece for Thanksgiving?

Yes. It's called food. Lol

I always do some type of centerpiece for a holiday dinner -- usually more than one because often use both the table in the dining room and the one in the breakfast room in order to seat everyone. (We serve buffet-style from the kitchen.)

I have a slight china/crystal/sterling addiction so I get great pleasure out of picking a pattern for each table and making a lovely tablescape. Thanksgiving centerpieces in recent years have included such items as cornucopias, crystal bowls filled with pomegranates & greenery, vintage Pilgrim figures, old pottery vases with fall flowers, and the like. And always candles. I'm kinda obsessed with table setting!

Yes, it's a red and gold bowl from Pier 1 with some fall wood chips and mini wicker balls, and two birds also made from natural stuff.

We have 30 usually for Thanksgiving. I serve the meal buffet style, the tables do have flowers and candles. The kids table has mini pumpkins and a small mason jar with some flowers.

I use a white embroidered table runner.  I embroidered this many years ago.  So pretty on the table.

Serve buffet style because of the crowd, but I always have a centerpiece.  Usually fresh flowers -- reward to myself for hosting!  I usually keep it low so as not to obstruct anyone's view, or several small arrangements down the center.

Ha ha ha!   We don't have a formal dining room in our house and the kitchen table isn't big enough to accommodate any frou-frou. Heck, I'm happy if the thing is just cleared off! Usually it's about 1/4 covered with school papers, kid artwork, permission slips that need to be signed and DH's random junk mail that he's not done looking at. 

before the table is set, yes. once we start laying out plates and silverware, the centerpieces get moved off. there is barely enough room for all the food and place settings as it is.   

If it is just family for dinner, no centerpiece because food is on the table. If we are having a crowd, the food is served buffet style on the island and there will be a scatter of decorative bits and pieces (gourds, low candles, etc.) along the center of the table (not a single centerpiece).

We rent a community center for Thanksgiving dinner. My SIL and I go decorate the whole place to make it more festive, that includes several centerpieces that stay on the table while eating. They are low and long with some candles of course. The food is served buffet style on the island, but we do put extra gravy's, bread, and seasonings along the tables.

My side of the family: My mother host our dinner still in my family home. She has had the same large turkey looking dish that holds gravy in the center of the table since I was a kid. It's beautiful and we do use it for gravy. I'm amazed that think hasn't broke in all these years. She sets it out on the table about two weeks before Thanksgiving. This thing is pretty large and looks just like a turkey. The table needs no other decorations. LOL!

HEHEHEHE, I have do have one on my table before the food. But once the food comes, away with the centerpiece!

We usually have a few mason jars with baby breath out. On the kids table we have it covered with kraft paper and put out crayons for them to use.

My daughter and son in law have Thanksgiving dinner. This will be the first one in their new house and I am making her a centerpiece as a surprise. I bought some really cute, glittery pumpkins for a quarter at WalMart last week.