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A special party for Madeline

We were very excited about our friend Maddy’s 60th birthday party. Its rare we get to be guests at parties we’re hiring vintage china for, and Madeline and Doug are such creative people we knew the party would be wonderful. Maddy asked friends and family to bake cakes and help with food so everyone got involved bringing sumptuous local produce – it was the perfect relaxed bring-and-share party. Here are some pictures from this special day…

Madeline made her own party invitations. She is a local artist who usually works in watercolour and paints so she drew beautiful pen and ink sketches of tea party items and copied these to make the outer sleeve for her invites. What a beautiful and ingenious way of inviting her 80 guests to tea?

The menu for the day was really traditional – everyone loved it! … afternoon tea and home made cakes, Purbeck Ice Cream, Birthday Cake followed in the evening by a cold buffet of pork pies, gorgeous bread from the Pheonix Bakery, cheese, salads, Doug’s home made pickled onions, ham off the bone and quiches! Wonderful!

Madeline grows all of her own flowers – the sweet peas were heavenly! She also made bunting for the marquee and painted these cute jam-jar tealight lanterns using glass paints and copper wire for handles

There were two birthday cakes baked by her friends (one depicting Maddy painting and the other for the small campfire of candles!) They were really great!

The tea table is always popular for choosing which cup you want to have tea served in…and we brought a variety of pots so people could escape into the garden with a pot and plenty of top-ups!

Obviously we made sure Maddy had a pot too though!