A Vintage Country Tea Party Themed Wedding Reception
When planning your wedding reception there are so many lovely themes to choose. Will it be a smart city wedding with chic and stylish decor? Shall we have a beach wedding with a fish dinner and seashells on the cake? Or should we choose a country wedding with old-fashioned touches?
So many of us just love everything about a romantic, country wedding and what could be better to offer your guests than cucumber sandwiches, scones with Devon clotted cream and strawberries in an old fashioned canvas marquee with loose arrangements of old roses on the tables?
Since 2004 the vast majority of our catering has been for these romantic teatime wedding receptions. It is an occasion to bring out the best china and serve Earl Grey tea from silver or pretty vintage china teapots, with the ladies dressed in fine, fancy frocks sitting at elegantly set tables with lacy napkins.
I highly recommend a teatime reception as your actual wedding breakfast. You and your wedding guests can have Champagne and a few canapés on the lawn after your ceremony, and then enter an adorned and decorated marquee. All the tables could be set with vintage china, food and magnificent table centres of fragrant, home-grown garden flowers, with bunting billowing in the wind and gentle music playing, perhaps from a jazz pianist tinkling the ivories. This gives your guests a totally sensual experience.
When tea is over and your guests have recovered from the hysterically funny speeches, the cutting of the wedding cake can take place and then the evening party kicks in. You may want to invite more friends for the evening but at least you had the genteel tea party reception, which pleased Granny, Auntie and all your friends alike. You may want to offer your guest an informal light buffet, spit roast or BBQ for later. It’s all very much in keeping with the country wedding theme.
Article by Amanda Baird of The Utterly Sexy Café
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