Tea for two and two for tea

In the upcoming weeks, I will be posting about tea.  A tea party to be exact!

My friend, Jessica (from Healthy Obsessions of a Girly Tomboy), is getting married in just about two months!  A while back she mentioned that she really wanted a tea party for her shower.  Unfortunately, that wasn't in the cards, so I offered to throw her a personal shower - tea party style.  Two of my friends threw me a personal shower before I got married, and I had such a good time.  I knew this would be the perfect type of tea party to throw for Jess.

What's a personal shower, you ask?  It's a chance to shower the bride with all the lingerie and personal items she will need as a bride.

I've been working on the invitation for sometime now.  I promise to post it once they've been mailed.  I can't take full credit for the design.  I may or may not have taken the idea from someone else, but I still think they are quite adorable and have no problem patting myself on the back a little...  :)  I'm seriously in love them.

We worked on the menu a little bit today.  Think cucumber sandwiches, lavender cookies, madeleines, scones, etc...  Oh and you better believe I'll be blogging about each and every menu item!  I'm looking forward to baking with lavender.  One of Jessica's wedding colors is lavender, so I decided to take that and run with it.

Speaking of the menu...have any of you out there ever thrown a tea party or attended one?  What did you have to eat?  Did you enjoy one thing more than others?