Continuing with the theme of Tea parties this week, I thought I would give you an inside look into our Jubilee tea party.

We decided fairly early on in the year that we would have a proper English Afternoon Tea party for the Queens Diamond Jubilee, it seemed like the right thing to do.

I made these little signs to sit on the plates with the tea bags. We served English Breakfast, Assam and Ceylon teas at our tea party.

I got creative and made these little Union Jack flag signs for various things at the tea party.

Our little sugar pots

 

Getting in the spirit with the napkins and the plates.

Part of our garden all laid out for the tea party.

The selection of teas, including another small selection.

We had lots of fun with some Royal Family masks that one of our guests bought round.

Our finger sandwiches.

Sandwiches for our younger guests.

More finger sandwiches.

A jam jar candle holder I made for the tea party.

Love, Amybecca x

(P.S. Stay tuned later this week for a blog post on how to host your own tea party)

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In February this year I turned 27, and rather than the usual birthday antics (a meal and then drinks) this year I wanted to try something a little bit different with just my closest girls. So after umming and ahhing about what exactly I was going to do, I settled on the idea of a cutesy tea party for me and the girls.

Planning was easy, and my best friend offered to help with the cake making (her cakes look & taste amazing – and I for one totally think she should set up her own mini business!) which helped me out massively! I decided Tea would be served at 3pm, with finger sandwiches, cups of tea (in cups & saucers), then scones with jam and clotted cream, and then the gorgeous cakes for pudding.

I took many pictures on the day, so I am going to share them below!

Its not easy to prepare a tea party, even for just a small number of guests!

One of our many stands, this V&A collection stand was used for our finger sandwiches.

We all had gorgeous cups and saucers to drink our tea from.

Every guest had a beautiful napkin within a napkin ring.

Each guests place setting; a tea plate, cup & saucer, napkin in napkin ring, tea spoon, knife and cake fork.

Mum took care of the table arranging, and I think you’ll agree that it looks pretty stunning.

These were the scones that we served, they are a Weight Watchers recipe that my mum found, and they are a very small and cute sized and they taste delicious. Perfect for a tea party.

 Here is a selection of Jam we served, with clotted cream (tut tut) on our weight watchers scones.

We offered our guests a selection of teas.

We served finger sandwiches, with a few different fillings, on white and brown bread. We also had a small selection (you can see in the background) of sandwiches made with wheat, gluten and dairy free bread, for those in the group with allergies and intolerance’s.

These are the beautiful cupcakes which were made by my best friend. The top ones with the sprinkles were lemon flavoured, and the bottom ones were toffee apple flavoured. Both were absolutely amazing, but I think my favourite ones were the toffee apple ones.

My best friend also made this gorgeous red velvet cake.

Love, Amybecca x

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A little over a month ago I went on a very good friends Hen do, arranged by myself (Bridesmaid) and the Maid of Honour.

The theme of the Hen party was 'American/Grease' with the two themes tying together quite well.

We started the day at 11am, with an American themed brunch. We made our own American pancakes on my pancake maker and had them with bacon and maple syrup. We also had Bucks Fizz to drink.

Next it was on to dressing up for the day. Before brunch we had revealed to the bride-to-be that the Hen do had an American theme, at this stage everything else was a surprise.

Next we had planned we would reveal just one part of the day to her. First I did her make up to make her into Sandy from Grease, before we all secretly dressed in our pink lady jackets. We faced her away from us and gave her a scroll, revealing that one part of her Hen do would be a sing-a-long Grease show that evening, but that there would be many other surprises throughout the day.

Before leaving each hen got a Hen do gift back. In there, keeping to the American theme were American chocolates, Hershey's Cookies & Cream and Butterfingers (The bride-to-be's faves)! In each bag we also included a Dare card, which each hen would need to complete before the end of the day.

We also included a Hen do emergency kit, which included Lipgloss, Asprin, Rehydration fluids (for the next morning), a nail file, plaster and a safety pin.

Sandy and her Pink Ladies set off for London. Our first stop was LVPO bar, where we took part in a cocktail making workshop. We each got to make a cocktail of our choice off of the menu before splitting into two teams and having a mojito contest.

While still at LVPO we had nibbles and then played a game of a Mr & Mrs which we had pre-planned, with some answers from the Groom!

Next it was on to Covent Garden for drinks.

Next, and continuing the American theme, it was onto Roadhouse in Covent Garden for some American Style dining and cocktails.

Then it was onto Leicester Square for the Grease sing-a-long show.

Brilliant day was had by everyone, lots of fun, lots of laughs, lots of drinks and most importantly of all, the Bride-to-be loved every minute. Success!

Love, Amybecca x

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