Spring tea party ideas
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Spring, with its vitality and new blooms erupting from the winter sleep, provides a beautiful backdrop for a tea party. When the weather warms, and you long to feel the sun on your face, plan a tea party in the garden. Springtime offers so many opportunities for creative tea parties. Celebrate Mother's Day, enjoy a romantic interlude or welcome spring itself with a tea party created for the occasion. Add touches to complement the theme, such as food, decorations and music to create a complete spring tea experience.
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Rites of Spring Tea
Serve tea to celebrate Earth Day.
The EarthSpirit Community, an organization focused on the preservation and development of spirituality, culture and community, has an event called Rites of Spring every year. It's a week of workshops, rituals and performances. Consider having your own earth-friendly rite of spring. Invite people you know to an afternoon of earth-friendly conviviality.
Send invitations made from recycled paper. Ask guests to bring their invitations to the party. Collect the cards and recycle them. Set up tables in a garden or gather at picnic tables in a park. Use bamboo place mats and cloth napkins. Hang wind chimes in a tree to tinkle in the spring breeze. Serve Fair Trade tea with organic, local raw honey and organic lemons. Serve vegetarian refreshments, such as traditional cucumber sandwiches with herbed goat cheese, hummus pita sandwiches and organic cranberry and orange scones. Ask guests to make an effort to recycle more, buy locally and walk instead of drive when possible. Schedule your event to coincide with Earth Day, which falls on April 22 every year.
Mother's Day Tea
Motehr's Day is a good day for a tea party.
Mother's Day and spring present a happy opportunity to have a mother-daughter tea. Invite mothers and daughters of any age. Have your tea party indoors or outside in a backyard or garden. Place a single white rose in full bloom at every mom's place setting and a pink rose bud at every daughter's place. The website Teas2Dine4.com suggests sending an herbal teabag in an attractive wrapper with each invitation. Ask guests to wear floral dresses, hats and gloves. Decorate the table with multicolored carnations floating in clear glass or crystal bowls of water. Play chamber music softly in the background. Use your good china and silverware. Serve sparkling water in crystal stemware, along with tea. Arrange finger sandwiches, quiche slices, fresh fruit cups and pastel-frosted tea cakes on a buffet table. Teas2Dine4.com suggests playing games, such as Mother-Daughter Trivia. See who knows whom the best. Give each table a disposable camera to capture the day.
Romantic Tea
Spring might be the best season for romance when the world, like you two, is in full bloom and feeling the blush of love. Put a spin on the overtly feminine aspects of a tea party so that it appeals to your guy. Send him a hand-written invitation to a midnight tea. Decorate the table with two red roses, representing the two of you together, in a cut glass vase. Create a playlist of your favorite romantic music in the background. Musical suggestions might include Kenny G, Sade, Roxy Music and Michael Buble. Set the table with candles, dessert plates and forks, tea cups and brandy snifters.Cut into a decadent Mississippi mud pie and serve it with chai tea. Toast each other with brandy in the candlelight.
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