Lisa's Wedding

My mother is a great fan of throwing parties.  So, when she heard that one of my best friends from high school was getting married and that I was co-Maid of Honor, she insisted on hosting and throwing the bridal shower.  It was decided that the shower would be a traditional English tea.

This has mainly been a trial for me, as my mother has spent the last month or so talking about what jams we should get for the favors, how many tea pots we'll need to employ at any one time, scone recipes, tasting of a number of small, very froofy sounding sandwich recipes (though, notably, the asparagus and prosciutto one was very tasty), etc., etc.  And there's still almost an entire month before the shower.

Besides driving me mad with discussions about tweaking the fairy cake recipe, my mother has also asked me to design the invitations and then carry that design over to the menus and name tags, etc.  I have actually finished the invitations.

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In searching for examples of tea invitations, I found that most of them were just a bit too cute with their pastel pinks and cartoon tea pots.  As a result, I decided to go with a more traditional, classy look while utilizing Lisa's basic wedding palette.  We've printed them and nestled them in their envelopes to await sending and I think they look rather nice.