Royal Wedding Tea

 We held a Royal Wedding Tea Party to celebrate the wedding of Prince William of Wales to Miss Catherine Middleton-- the newly named Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.  I had recorded the entire festivities (though I watched it as it was happening) so we could have tea and scones and then watch the event.   Kelly's house at the tea and savory treats; I had the Pimms and sweet treats. 

The Royal Family!

my centerpiece: Wills and Kate as teabags

Kelly did the most amazing job with three of the food items: here are the crest sugar cookies.  She was able to get both Wills' and Kate's crests as edible pictures for sugar cookies.  They were amazing looking (not to mention absolutely delicious!). 

 Kelly was also to find a recipe of the McVitie's Chocolate Cake that Prince William had as his groom's cake.  It is the basic McVitie biscuit (Americans: think plain cookie) that is crumbled and covered with a chocolate genache.  Oh so chocolately and delicious.

 The best thing about about hosting a Royal Wedding Tea at our house is that we have all this British stuff: flags, pillows, hand towels, candles, tea cosies, teaspoons & pots, and real loose tea.  We have it all, so Kelly's decorating was really simple: she came upstairs and borrowed it all.

 We all wore fascinators or hats as we celebrated.  I had one that was my great aunt Betty's.  It was more flower headband hat than a fascinator.

My table had shortbread, crest cookies, petits fours, trifle, McVitie's cake, Battenburg cake, cream scones, and biscotti.

 Kelly's table had cucumber sandwiches, roasted red pepper and goat cheese sandwiches, English Stilton and cheddar cheeses, buttermilk scones, Bath Oliver crackers, lemon curd and strawberry preserves. 

 She served three types of tea: Earl Gray, a green tea, and Prince of Wales Tea-- of course!

 Tea Guest, Lis, with her tiny hat fascinator--  absolutely fabulous!

 Kelly did another amazing thing with her petits fours.  She piped the designs from the commemorative cup that I have. The icing was the same color of blue and the designs were perfect: birds, crowns, C, W, hearts, ribbons.  And you know what? They taste as beautiful as they look.

Stirling even was wearing her Union Jack to celebrate the nuptials.  

Tea guests in their hats

the hostesses!

 And of course, I had to frame photos of the royal couple and bridal party as part of the decorations.  I had several photos framed, sitting around the living room. 

And of course, we after the tea, we watched the wedding and started pouring the Pimms....  Congrats to William and Catherine!