Royal Wedding Tea Party

With all the celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics in London, I thought I would share a tea party I did.  My parents are British and my Mom has been a member of the British Friendship group for years.  When William and Kate got married last year, she asked me to have a tea party for her British friends so they could watch the wedding together.  It was fun to make some of our favorite family sweets like Butterfly Cakes, Scones with Strawberry Jam and Clotted Cream, Lemon Curd Tartlets and several types of biscuits.  I also made some traditional British tea sandwiches ~Egg with Cress, Cucumber and Butter Sandwiches, Plowman’s Rolls and of course served cups and cups of tea.  On one of my trips to England, I started collecting Victorian silver posy vases and antique handmade lace doilies.  To decorate the table, I scattered the lace doilies all over and put pink roses and freesia in the silver posies.  I have a 3-tiered silver plated cookie stand that I used as the centerpiece and filled it with cookies and used all the silver serving pieces I have to put the food on.  Click here for more photos….