Hosting a Tea Party

Hosting a tea party is interestingly amusing. It's the perfect idea for friends and family get-together. You can organize it anytime anywhere. There's no hard and fast rule for organizing a tea party. Just invite anyone, anytime and anywhere with the flavor of tea and dishes of snacks. Just arise from the afternoon siesta, arrange the tea tables in your garden and wait for the arrival of your near and dear ones. Brew some tea and make some snacks and let the tea party be on with chats, music, food, laughter and fun.

That was an informal stuff. But if you are eager to organize a tea party officially, then you ought to follow some etiquette to let the invitees feel special on the occasion. Hosting a tea party on birthdays, baby showers, anniversaries and bridal showers, is not at all a bad idea.

Tips on Hosting a Tea Party

Hosting such a party need not be an expensive affair. But it can be quite gracious, enjoyable and fun if it's organized in the right way. So read these simple guidelines.

• First make a list of people whom you are eager to invite. Remember it's a tea party, so select a small group of your close ones.
• If you wanna invite them formally, make some homemade invitation pamphlets, with embellishments. Decorating with flowers, ribbons and colorful calligraphy will definitely make a good piece of invitation card.
• Mention the date, time, place (RSVP address and phone number) and purpose or theme of the tea party.
• Mail or post the invitation to respective people at least four weeks in advance, so that they can make necessary preparations to attend the tea party.
• Make all the preparations from your side, at least a day before arrival of guests.
• Select a color scheme for the tea party. Opt for bright colors to express your pleasure and happiness.
• Set up tables for buffet, dining and relaxing. Arrange adequate chairs for your guests.
• Cover the tables with tablecloths, with different neat colorful patterns to give a luxurious look. Keep cutlery and tissues, dishes and glasses on the table beforehand.
• To decorate the ambiance place flowers pots or flower vases on the tables.
• Select the place, where you want to organize the party. When hosting a tea party for kids, garden is the best place. If it's a formal affair you can always host it inside your house.
• Arrange games and music for entertaining your guests.
• Perform everything in an organized way to be appreciated by your guests.

Apart from music and chats, engaging in some activities is always entertaining and amusing, especially when you are hosting a tea party for adults wherein they come along with their kids. We have explained you some wonderful games for kids and adults over here.

For Kids
Kids are always fond of energetic games. They love to make fun and enjoy themselves in their own childish gestures. You can organize teapot relay race, chocolate race and passing the parcel. Kids are also interested in craft work. So arrange some painting and art competition for them. Quiz on sports and cracking jokes, are also entertaining for them. Fancy dress competition is also a good tea party game for kids. You should also arrange for small prizes as a token of love for the kids.

For Adults
Not only kids, but adults also like some form of entertainment. It can be either intellectual or purely disporting. Musical chair, truth and dare, gaze and relic and charades are enjoyable tea party games for adults. For people who love to engage themselves in intellectual matter, for them chess, puzzles, scrabbles and sudoku is the right choice. You can also play some good movie at your home theater after the party is over.

Tea Party Food

A tea party without good food is just as distasteful as a cake without sugar. So along with cups of tea, you need to arrange variety of party food, like cookies, snacks, fries and starters. A bite of sugar and spice with always enhance the flavor of tea party. Sandwiches, pizzas, finger fries and French fries serve as good side dishes for tea. Cream cheese salad, pudding and salads are good delicacies for tea parties. Children love to relish chicken pies, apple pies, cakes and chocolates. You can also arrange for muffins, scones, cookies and fruit tarts for your guests. Above all, remember it's a tea party, so serve different varieties of tea to your guests. Black, olong, green and white will be the ideal cuppa for your guests. You can also brew some spicy herbal tea or flavored tea. For kids, you can serve lemon wedges, cream, honey, milk and lumps of sugar. You can organize glasses of wine in late in the evening or punch a bottle of champagne also

A tea party is not only a good way of socializing, but it also establishes a good camaraderie between your friends and family. It also provides a great deal of relief to kids from their monotonous school schedule. So next time, you organize a tea party, just remember the basic guidelines mentioned in this article.