Teacup Love!

Teacup love!

As you would have guessed I'm a little in love with many a pretty vintage teacup or two. You might agree with me in thinking that it's a much more pleasurable experience drinking your tea from a thin fine bone china teacup. It is something that I have heard over and over again from my mom, 'I much prefer a thin teacup rather then a thick mug to drink my tea from.' So it was ingrained in me from an early age to notice delicate fine bone china! 

So I thought it might be nice to share a few of my favourite teacups with you.

Only a couple of teapots/coffee pots today, I think they might need an individual post of their own!

Flower cupcakes by Scrumdiddly cakes.

 I soooo have a soft spot for Royal Albert's Lady Carlyle china!

Is this a Pink overload?

Pink, green and gold. 

This Royal Albert trio reminds me of my mom and her love for purple. I sometimes hear her quote from the poem, 

"When I grow old I will wear purple"

I love all this mixed up green!

Coalport's Junetime china

 A little bit more of some Royal Albert china loving going on here.

A little bit of rose love.

 There is nothing more satisfying then playing with table settings! Or is that just me!

 Who isn't in love with old books?

I love this green utility china, I've got a few bits and pieces of it in green, yellow and blue now, inspired by my lovely sister in law. This cup of tea was at my lovely florist's friend house though.

Finishing now with this pretty blue floral cup and teapot.

Hope you have a lovely Monday.

Make sure you find time to have a cup of tea!

Becca 

xxx

Weddings

Weddings

We had our busiest year last year with weddings. We met some lovely brides who had some amazing creative ideas to bring to the weddings as well. We've also invested in some new props and china pieces too. Although I think I have been band from the other half from purchasing any more! 

Here's to 2014 and to all the upcoming weddings and tea parties! 

Take care for now 

Becca 

x

Summer Vintage Wedding

Summer Vintage Wedding

We had a great time helping out with the vintage look for a beautiful wedding this summer with a lovely couple Tim and Jess in the picturesque Gower, South Wales. It was one of our biggest weddings  so far with 160 guests. Quite a lot of pretty pastel colours were used from the beautiful flowers to the delicate china used.

We especially loved the fresh sponge floral and strawberry fruit look of the lovely cake.

Lots of pretty flowers were displayed everywhere in jam jars tied up with string and lace.

Fancy Vintage bunting setting the scene.

Table plan made with brown paper and lace.

More of our vintage suitcases used for confetti.

Doily cones holding confetti.

Collected jam jars shown here before the drink was poured.

 

A good idea is to use different coloured/patterned straws for showing the difference between non alcoholic/ and alcoholic drinks.

Important part of a summer wedding day, drinking these!

We've collected a few typewriters now, they can be handy for the guests to leave messages for the bride and groom on different coloured papers.

Lots of vintage glass was used throughout the day from using them for jugs for pouring out the refreshing drinks when the guests arrived, jugs for water for the tables and also to go with the scones on arrival for cream, jam, butter and strawberries. Also not forgetting for the pink and green glass bowls for the desserts and the storage jars and pretty glass bowls for the sweet table.

Three stripy boys "helping" to set up the sweet table.

The ushers with the bride and groom in their converse and vintage handmade ties.

Beautiful bridesmaids in deep purple with matching bows to match the ushers.

Photo opportunity amongst the hay.

The arrival of Jess and Tim.

Vintage teapots arriving.

Loving the idea of photographs of friends, family and the happy colour pegged up on a string. 

Tables were named after the couples favourite films.

We now have pretty melamine plates for children.

 Good idea to turn the cups upside down if it's an outdoor wedding the night before:-)

More pastel colours.

Table view.

Dinky boys with their bow ties and blue velvet suits eating their food in the hay bales.

So from helping setting up the night before to the actual beautiful wedding day was great fun and it was really rewarding to see all the guests loving the day as well as the vintage china!

Sorry so many photographs, I took a few hundred so you are lucky to not be graced with many more! hehe

Take care for now.

Becca xxx