Tea for Two

Those of you that know me knows that I’m a major tea drinker. The only time I drink coffee is when I go to a diner. Don’t know why. So I am always looking for ways to share my love of tea with others and have found these great favors.

Wedding Tea from Crate & Barrel $3.95 each

5 tea sachets of Chinese Mutan white tea, infused with a hint of lemon-vanilla and pink rosebuds.

These tins from Adagio Teas ($1.85 each for 100)

You can personalize the label, choose different color organza bags and fill the tins with a variety of tea.

You don’t have to buy the gift sets. Some of the teas today have such great packaging that you can simply bundle them up with a bow and they would look great on their own. Revolution Tea sells the T-Mini tins with 6 infuser bags and the T-Box single servings. Both have colorful packaging. (I love the mint tea and have given them out as gifts)

R&R Catering

Natalie at R&R Catering was nice enough to invite me to one of their tastings held at the National Zoo! They had a tented picnic at the Great Meadow and then other food stationed at the Small Mammal House and Amazonia. Unfortunately, I had another event to go to so I didn’t get to see too much of the latter two.

Tent at the Great Meadow area

Fondue display

Ice Cream Station & Wine Bar

Corn station

food station

food station

Tablescape

Setup at the Small Mammal House

Table setting in front of some furry animals!

Meerkats!

Wii

Chairs & tablecloth

Table Top Competition

The DC chapter of the International Special Events Society (ISES) hosts a table top design competition each year, participated by any member who wishes. This year’s competition was held at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn). Here are some teaser pictures! I’ll post more when the professional photos are in to do the tables better justice. Cool, huh?

Here are some photos of the hotel.

Below left photo is of the modern lobby.

Below right, our dinner meeting in the Metropolitan Ballroom. The table top competition and cocktail hour were in the Hill/Grid/Hub Rooms. There is also a rooftop lounge, which I missed but hopefully, the professional photos will show the view.

Follow Up to iPod Post

After reading a post on WeddingBee about a couple that had planned on using an iPod to supply the music for their wedding, I wanted to follow up on my previous post about the same topic. Basically, “the iPod worked brilliantly for the ceremony … But cut to the reception, when my iPod stopped working. And those multiple backups? Left behind at the hotel.” (The bride had loaded a copy of their playlist onto the groom’s laptop and also burned copies onto CDs as backup.) Luckily, their photographer saved the day by playing music from her laptop. The bride lamented the loss of their special first dance song and the hours she had spent setting up the playlists.

Again, I think there are events where I think an iPod or laptop would be OK for supplying music. Although this might have just been bad luck, why chance it for your big day where there are no do-overs?

Chalk it Up!

I love anything chalk board related! I have cans of chalk board paint at my house and if i could, I would spray it on everything. Katasha at K Sherrie & Company spotted these chalkboard oilcloths by Bell’occhio! How cool are they! At $15/yard (48 inches wide), you would need to be judicious on how you will use it. Some ideas:

A table runner

An overlay for the kids table

Escort card, table markers, menu cards, etc – basically anywhere you would use paper.

Guestbook – after the wedding, put several coat of polyurethane to seal in the chalk.

An aisle runner – draw your own design and seal with polyurethane.

What other ways can you think of to use for your wedding?