In honor of my sister Joyce and my friend (of 15 years) Christina visiting me this month I'm going to be holding a Tea Party! My table only sits 12 at the most but I ended up inviting 14! LOL And I still have others I would have loved to invite, it's so hard to do that! Depending on how this tea party goes I might just have to hold another!
Above is the envelopes of the invites I wrapped a bit of pretty lace around them securing it with the sicker. For the Women I'm using Lady in front of their first name and for the Youth I'm using Miss in front of their name, but just to be special I put Lady for my sister even though she is still a youth.
I printed out both formal invitations and a Save The Date card, unfortunately I already sealed up all the formal invites so I cannot show you what it looked like other than it's on the peach card, but you can see the Save The Date card. Click on the photo to read what it says! (I blurred out the personal info) Yes that is right it's going to be a Dress-Up Themed Tea Party!!! I'm so excited and I bought a hat and a few accessories to dress up all Victorian! I'll post about that later when I have everything and do a trial dress up with my sister.
The Save The Date card I printed on Matte Photo Paper and then used a scrapbooking corner punch to emboss and cut. I also used a vintage image and faded it in a photo editing program for the print you see behind the words. These invites took a whole day to create!
Here is a little trial of what each place setting will look like. I haven't chosen linens yet, but at least I have some glass desert plates (12 matching) and tea cups and saucers only 6 of these tea cups that are matching and the rest will be random vintage cups I've collected. I promise to take photos when the table is set for the party!
I also printed place cards on business cards using a vintage image in a photo editing program.
I also bought on Etsy some
transparent hand cut butterflies that come with little sticky bits to attach them to something from
ClearCutCrafts Etsy Shop. These butterflies flew all the way from Australia! As you can see I'm going to attach one to each place card. Then each lady can take her place card and butterfly home!
I'm so so SO excited about this Tea Party! I hope everything goes well and it's a smashing success! OH OH I almost forgot to mention that my husband Gerard wants to dress up and be the Fancy Server! How lucky can a girl be!?!
The sweet delights!
Kaity and Elizabeth
Amanda
Wendy and Stephanie
Wendy
Joyce
Heather
Lucy
Terri
Terri won the Best Dressed door prize for being the Queen! Can you believe it the Queen came to tea with us! Woo Hoo! LOL
Madie
Me
Christina
Joyce
Me & Joyce
Elizabeth
Fun Photo!
The day before the party was Baking Day where we baked and baked! I'm doing very small sugar cookies in this photo.
Madie snoozing on the Sofa while we work, work, work!
Here is the table in process of being decorated and filled.
Me, Christina, and Joyce selected tea cups for everyone, it was a fun like a guessing game to think of each lady and their personality and what cup they might love!
Each setting had a Place Card with a butterfly attached. I put a lot of thought, deliberation and prayer into where everyone would sit to have the most fun. We also selected butterflies for each lady trying to best guess which they would love the most too.
Here is my Hubby dressed up in his Tux costume helping get scones out on the table.
In honor of my sister Joyce and my friend (of 15 years) Christina visiting me this month I'm going to be holding a Tea Party! My table only sits 12 at the most but I ended up inviting 14! LOL And I still have others I would have loved to invite, it's so hard to do that! Depending on how this tea party goes I might just have to hold another!
I printed out both formal invitations and a Save The Date card, unfortunately I already sealed up all the formal invites so I cannot show you what it looked like other than it's on the peach card, but you can see the Save The Date card. Click on the photo to read what it says! (I blurred out the personal info) Yes that is right it's going to be a Dress-Up Themed Tea Party!!! I'm so excited and I bought a hat and a few accessories to dress up all Victorian! I'll post about that later when I have everything and do a trial dress up with my sister.
The Save The Date card I printed on Matte Photo Paper and then used a scrapbooking corner punch to emboss and cut. I also used a vintage image and faded it in a photo editing program for the print you see behind the words. These invites took a whole day to create!
Here is a little trial of what each place setting will look like. I haven't chosen linens yet, but at least I have some glass desert plates (12 matching) and tea cups and saucers only 6 of these tea cups that are matching and the rest will be random vintage cups I've collected. I promise to take photos when the table is set for the party!
I also bought on Etsy some transparent hand cut butterflies that come with little sticky bits to attach them to something from ClearCutCrafts Etsy Shop. These butterflies flew all the way from Australia! As you can see I'm going to attach one to each place card. Then each lady can take her place card and butterfly home!
