Springtime Ladies Tea

Today, I had a Tea Party. -^_^-

Everyone looked so pretty!  I wore a vintage floral 60's dress and pink 50's cashmere cardigan.

I was so excited to invite lady friends from different parts of my life to sit at the same table and get to know each other!  People that I've always wanted to meet each other did, and it was very cool to see.  We all brought a box of tea and a finger food to share and ended up with such a lovely spred.  I wish I had taken pictures of it all, somehow whenever delicious food is in front of me I get a little preoccupied.. -^_^-  We had a really nice balance of savory + sweet with tea sandwiches, quiche, scones, cupcakes, melon balls, pie and doughnuts.  The only food picture I took was of some lemon lavender cupcakes that a friend brought, they were so yummy!

If you are contemplating having a tea party, I so encourage you to do it!  I just hope you take more pictures than I did! 

Spring Tea Party

I'm one of those people who has always wanted to host (and loves to go to) theme parties.  This includes decade themes, color themes, holiday themes, random themes...any theme as long as dressing up is involved {can you tell that's my favorite part?!). -^_^-  One such theme party that I've always wanted to have is a Tea Party (not this kind, despite how cool it was)!

So I'm finally having one this spring, and I decided to show some of the planning and such on my blog!  Not only will it help me get organized, I can {hopefully} also get some unbiased, helpful feedback!

Right now I'm on step # 1, which in my mind consists of:

• Set the date (duh).
• Gather inspiration.
• Create an invitation.
• Send that puppy out!

The date has been set, so onto Inspiration (which I have gained a plethora of just in February alone.  Thanks internet!).  All the pictures below are linked to their sources.

Pretty centerpiece for a table!  I love peonies, too bad it's not spring already because I have a huge bush of them in my front yard!  I also love that they incorporated old books into the decor.

Of course, every tea party needs tea cups (I need that little yellow one please)!  I love the look of many different patterns and colors of tea cups together, it's an observation in imperfect beauty. :)  I'm hoping to find some on one of my weekend estate sale adventures, I'll let you know how that goes.

And then there is food!  I've decided to ask each of my guests to bring a "tea party treat" as well as a box of their favorite tea to share with everyone else.  I think I'll probably make some sort of sandwiches for my treat because I know majority of folks will probably bring sweets!

That's just a bit of my inspiration for the party, if you are interested you can follow my Tea Party inspiration board on Pinterest!

My next Tea Party post will be on creating invitations, stay tuned and have a great weekend (err, after Friday that is)!