A Rosey Table
June roses connotate that summer has arrived, love is in the air and celebrations are plentiful. Tea for one, an intimate gathering or a large party are reasons to think everything’s coming up roses. Let’s explore how to bring the theme of roses to your table using décors and edibles that can also be a take home party favor.
An afternoon tea setting for one.
A Rosey luncheon setting.
Roses in Small Bud Vases are not only table décor but may also be the take home gift.
Rose Theme Table Enhancers and Favors Shown filled with sugar almonds ~ or any other sweets and nuts
Rose Pattern White and Dark Chocolates, Rose Sugar Lace Covered Cookies
Rose Sugars in Lace Pouch, Porcelain Boxes and Baskets
How to mold sugar shapes~ 2 cups of granulated sugar, 4 teaspoons of water or 2 cups of super fine granulated sugar and 3 ½ teaspoons of water. Place ingredients into a large bowl. Mix together using your hands until it feels like wet sand. Optional to add food coloring and or extract flavoring one drop at a time for desired color and taste and blend evenly throughout. Firmly press packed sugar into the mold of your choice. Level the excess off of the top and allow to dry completely, approximately 5 hours. The larger and deeper the mold the longer the drying time.
TABLE ETIQUETTE NOTES~ Once upon a time one could rely on marquee brands to be your guide. Regretfully, that is no longer the case. When one uses common sense etiquette will not be overwhelming.
When setting any table, formal or casual, never place a napkin underneath a plate. Despite what you may see in magazines and adverts it will never be correct. The reason being is the diner should never have to pick up any part of a place setting to reach the napkin. For in doing so can result in an accident that both causes spills and potential damage to the settings.
The guest must never remove anything, especially the centerpiece or decor, from the table without an invitation from their host.
Sources on AMAZON.com
Assorted Bud Vases by INFTYLE
Chintz Scallop Rose Paper Baking Cups by SPARKLE and BASH
Rose Teapot Paper Box by ASSUN
Rose Pattern China, Crystal and Silver at Replacements.com
©Ellen Easton
Ellen Easton, author of Afternoon Tea~Tips, Terms and Traditions(RED WAGON PRESS), an afternoon tea authority, lifestyle and etiquette industry leader, keynote speaker and product spokesperson, is a hospitality, design, and retail consultant whose clients have included the Waldorf=Astoria, the Plaza and Bergdorf Goodman. Easton’s family traces their tea roots to the early 1800s, when ancestors first introduced tea plants from India and China to the Colony of Ceylon, thus building one of the largest and best cultivated teas estates on the island.
Always in impecable taste and color Ellen sets the table, mood and opens the new season with lovely sweets and tea! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💖💖💖💖💖
What beautiful table settings!
Thank you Mercedes and Marilynn. I very much appreciate your kind and supportive comments.