An Afternoon Tea Baby Shower

One of my dear friends is having a sweet babe any day now and I just realized I never posted about the shower we hosted for her in back in February.  Of course, I love a theme and when brainstorming ideas for a gender neutral baby shower, it hit me.  A royal themed afternoon tea! Perfect for my sweet friend who loves all things british and royal!

When planning, we had to come up with a color scheme... an actual "royal tea" wouldn't be kitschy... it would be elegant so we decided on Gold & White invitations! The other hostesses and I spent a full evening putting these together but we were thrilled with how they turned out.

Here are some of the details from the shower...

Wreath at the front door with the invitation:

Set-up in the dining room... we had a lot of guests which meant LOTS of place settings.

We used tiered serving pieces throughout with an assortment of food so each guest could have access to all of the goodies!

Sugar Cubes, preserves, cream, clotted cream and lemon curd were on each table. 

We didn't have room for everyone in the dining room so we set up another table in the kitchen.

 We made a menu with all of the food and tea options for each guest on their plate.

Favor cookies

Hostesses with the mama-to-be (we were all wearing our fascinators that Tara Jane made for us).  

So excited to meet this baby and find out BOY or GIRL!