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English Afternoon Tea

Description: The English afternoon tea could also be a elegant gathering in a sitting room for the ladies or an outdoor unfold correct out of Jane Austen’s Emma. Perceive that the proper resorts on the planet often plan a day Extreme Tea, at which they serve a lot of a number of forms of scorching tea, iced tea, scones, petit fours and completely different baked treats. So planning a tea as a bridal bathe theme is like web internet hosting it on the 4 Seasons, Caneel Bay in St. John or one different celeb-fave resort!

Decor: In case you’re open air, organize tables under big umbrellas or uncover a shady spot under an arbor or giant willow tree for an al fresco tea get collectively. Indoors, appoint a shocking sitting room with well-dressed tables, along with fantastic china and crystal in a number of nonetheless coordinating colors and patterns. Silver platters are a ought to, as is a set of stylish tea-serving models, and purchase heart-shaped sugar cubes to impress firm with the smallest of sweet particulars. White and blush-colored flowers make beautiful centerpieces, as do white and blush-colored pillar or votive candles for environment. Join small floral bunches to the backs of chairs or to napkin rings for an added dose of high-society sort.

Menu: Tea sandwiches, crudites, smoked salmon, fruit and nut breads, scones and crumpets, mini quiches, petit fours and pastries, fruit-covered meringue tartlets, and a fantastically embellished spherical cake with lacy swirled icing and pastel-colored flowers. And embody platters of latest strawberries and raspberries, with whipped cream for dolloping correct alongside.

Drinks: Earl Grey tea, if you’d favor to be real, or an array of flavored teas, chai, inexperienced and Tazo mannequin selections (in Calm, Citrus or Chinese language language Inexperienced Ideas), with tasty sweet additions akin to raw sugar or stevia. Tea could also be “spiked” as properly—to your crowd’s liking. As an illustration, creme de cacao could also be added to a mint tea or Malibu rum to a mango or fruit-flavored tea. Experiment ahead of time for these frisky mixes, and ensure to embody espresso and non-alcoholic punch for people who don’t want alcohol throughout the afternoon. Perceive that tea is served from 2 to 4 p.m. throughout the afternoon, which makes this get collectively theme one among many further budget-friendly ones—since alcohol isn’t anticipated and firm don’t drink very rather a lot that early throughout the day.

Video video games: Join little bridal charms (which you possibly can discover on bridal ceremony present web sites or in catalogs) to skinny ribbon lengths and embed them throughout the icing layer of a cake. Your organization gently pull a ribbon to retrieve their charms. A horseshoe means good luck, a coin means prosperity and a wedding ring means the bearer could be the next to marry (or have the benefit of an prolonged and happy marriage).

Favors: Single flowers wrapped in cellophane and tied with a ribbon, a single gardenia in a clear Lucite discipline, attract bracelets, a flower-themed current e book, a e book of affection poetry or sonnets, a gift-sized cookbook of teas and tea truffles, classical music CD, DVDs of flicks tailor-made from Jane Austen novels (Emma and Sense and Sensibility) or one different favorite British movie.

For tea lovers, create baskets of flavored teas from Rishi-Tea.com, TeaLeaves.com or InPursuitofTea.com. Or give tea pots, honey bear bottles with personalised labels, tea infusers, flavored honeys or copies of The New Tea Information to each of your organization.

A Little One factor Extra: Ask the ladies to placed on their most interesting hats to the affair.

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