A Right Royal Wedding (& Afternoon Tea)...

Hi Everyone,

I hope you've all had a wonderful morning enjoying watching the royal wedding and celebrating. At the last minute we decided to have an afternoon tea to celebrate!

We started the day with some toast to keep us going until tea time! We used my new toast rack, for it's first every outing! Very british...

I decided to make some sandwiches for our afternoon tea and used some lovely homegrown ingredients - basil and cress from my windowsill...

I even boiled my first ever egg (yes I can't believe I've never boiled an egg either!) and made some scrummy sandwiches - egg and homegrown cress, tomato and homegrown basil, and cheese and chive (unfortunately not homegrown as mine wouldn't grow - but I have grown them before!)

Here was our complete afternoon tea...

Can you spot the white orchid in the background? My lovely fiance bought it for me yesterday as a surprise!

I finally got to use some beautiful china I had recently bought but had no 'good' reason to get out...

Including this beautiful glass jug, needed to toast the happy couple...

And my pretty cake plates!

The wedding was beautiful! I had a tear in my eye throughout, but was also secretly very jealous. I am now even more excited about our wedding next year, but hugely anxious for the time to pass quickly! A whole further year to wait!

Katherine looked beautiful and elegant, I can barely hope to come close to her poise and serenity on our day.

Congratulations Kate & Will! 

Jewel x