On Sunday we did an afternoon tea on our vintage crockery for a birthday party. We have one wedding booked for next year already and another wedding that want to book us but they wanted to come and see one of our teas before confirming.
We invited them to come and take at look at Sunday’s tea. I also set our table for two so they could get a feel for how it will look. Of course you have to imagine sandwiches on the sandwich plates and cakes and scones on the cake stand.
Vintage table setting for two
We have mostly three tier cake stands but the two tier one fitted the photo better so I removed the three tier one. It’s only to get an idea of the look. When a wedding table is set up it does look really pretty.
I think our visitors were impressed and we sent them home with a sample plate of sandwiches and of cakes and scones for their lunch.
Our other wedding booking have already visited us to look at an earlier tea and we haven’t yet had anyone visit who hasn’t gone ahead and booked us. I think when it comes to a wedding people (quite rightly) want to see what they will be getting.
We haven’t yet had anyone who hasn’t been impressed with our tea and our crockery. Vintage crockery seems to be more fashionable than ever at the moment and we do more afternoon teas every year than the year before. I think it was one of our best ideas.
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It looks very nice.
Thank you.
The delicacy of the china and the beauty of the designs do make it seem very special. My mother had my grandmother’s china teaset – 12 settings, which must have been unusual, even for early 20th century; unfortunately, one of the saucers got broken, but it’s something we’ll love to have, as my father is clearing things out week by week, now my mother is gone.
The beginnings of our collection was my husband’s grandparent’s set which also has a saucer broken, 12 settings. It had been in a suitcase in one loft then another and we thought it would be good to see it used. Now this set plus some of our own sets are used and seen rather than kept in cabinets or storage. It has been good for us to see our own family pieces in use rather just stored and we feel that we now enjoy them more this way as well as other people enjoying them.
Very nice. It would look great with some cookies on the cake stand!
I almost considered putting my cookies in the photo!