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Let’s Create the Perfect Tea Party for your next birthday or shower!
Do you remember?
If you’re an adult, a mother or grandmother, I feel every one of you can remember a time you had sat down with your favorite person as a child and had a pretend or real tea party. My fondest memory was my 8th birthday, where I got to have a “friends” birthday party, so I chose to have it at a tea room in St. Peters, MO. I was super excited to invite all my friends for a day of dressing up in old time dresses and tea hats, taking pictures and drinking our favorite beverage, lemonade, out of old tea cups and saucers.
I still can remember this day like it was yesterday even though it was 23 years ago. Okay now I am telling my age… As long as I can remember, I have always been a birthday person. I loved planning my own parties, making a huge birthday celebration for my family and friends. I am now a mother and there is nothing better than seeing the joy in your child’s eyes as they see all their loved ones around them celebrating “Their Day” in their favorite theme.
Why Tea Parties?
As my daughters get older I try to make every little event special. One of our favorite things to do with my mother is go to our local tea room and have lunch while my daughter sips lemonade from her vintage tea cup, dresses up in costumes and offers her baby doll lemonade too. This is when the Idea of having a traveling tea party business that sets up tea parties for children’s birthday parties and adult gatherings for women to get together and spill some tea came to mind.
Follow along as I show you everything I found to create a perfect tea party at your home!
Pick Out Your Best Dress, It’s Time For Tea!
When I decided I wanted to create a tea party at home, I roamed Pinterest for inspiration and realized I wanted to have ground picnic tables with soft pillows to set the elegant theme. I knew it was going to centered around children but wanted to make sure the table was tall enough to host an adult. I am super blessed to have a handy man husband who takes my visions and brings them to life. Check back for a the post on HOW TO Build a foldable ground picnic table to learn about how my husband created these foldable, easy storage adorable picnic tables.
Steps to Set Up The Perfect Backyard Tea Party
Pick a location and event to celebrate– I chose my backyard for a Mother’s Day Brunch with my Mom friends and their little girls.- Go to your local Antique Store and Find some cheap, beautiful Tea Cups and saucers. I went to a couple different Goodwills and antique shops before finding my perfect cups, saucers and teapots.
- Purchase tarp to lay on the ground to prevent any dew or wetness to get on your set up. I purchased this two pack of white tarp- from amazon
- Choose your blanket to set your tables on and to put pillows down as seats. I chose to do a white blanket from amazon to give a soft clean look for my pillows to go on.
- Choose your color scheme– I love the color dusty pink and cream, I felt it was so soft and pretty for any girls event. I wanted to have pretty flowers from our local florist on the table to set the soft elegant tone to mesh with the pillows and table settings.
- After choosing your color scheme you get to go Shopping! Who doesn’t love to scroll amazon to find exactly what their vision is? This is exactly what I did, I knew I wanted an elegant look for my girls to feel fancy. I found these soft, beautiful dusty pink cheesecloth napkins and matching runner.
- After I found the napkins I wanted to find the perfect napkin holder, after a lot of looking. I found these simple gold napkin ring that comes in pack of 6 so its easy to buy for your event.
- The Place setting consist of a 3 part piece
- Wicker charger from Amazon
- 8.3 inch Porcelain Beaded Rim Salad Plate- White Threshold at Target
- 6 inch ceramic white dessert plate from amazon
- After setting the plates, place the napkins and rings on top to make the elegant setting pictured.
- I bought 20×20 white pillows so I could buy changeable covers to match all my different set ups. I chose a light petal pink, dusty rose and cream round pillows to give some variety.
What’s a Tea Party without delicious treats?
Our Tea Party consisted of finger foods such as heart cut out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit sticks and lemonade. I found the cutest three tiered dessert tray on amazon that was perfect at displaying our sugar cookies from Sweet Bliss Goodie Boutique in our hometown. Check them out if you live in St. Charles County , MO!
Hats, Necklace or Crown?
Whatever fits your fancy to complete your tea party look!
Check out the links below for fun tea party hats, necklaces, princess crowns and kings crowns to add to your next Tea Party!
- Gold Princess Crown with Pink Jewel– Pack of 10 crowns.
- Silver Dress Up Tiaras, Necklace,Bracelet and Clip on Earrings Toy Playset
- My Sister In Law ordered gold, soft, cute Prince Hats for my nieces princess birthday party, click link above.
- I ordered the tea party hats pictured above pictures from shein, affordable and good quality.
Making your Tea Party specialized to your Birthday girl is so easy, if she wants a classic tea party, add old time hats and pearl necklaces for her and her party guests. If your child wants a Princess Tea Party, add a crown, necklace and other jewelry for the Princess or Prince of Honor and party guests
Check out the links to the left to find some I found to add to my tea parties !
