Vintage Picnic Party Photographs!

After postponing for a week due to calamitous weather (NZ is having a bit of an 'off' summer this year), I finally got to throw my Vintage Picnic Party this past Saturday. I'm so pleased we had a lovely sunny day and I got to use my near-endless supply of cutesy teacups. I spent all of Friday evening busily baking and preparing all manner of treats and decorations - but it was all well worth it!

When Brence and I were setting up the picnic area we had loads of passers-by stop and comment on how lovely and exciting it all looked. I think all kinds of people would enjoy this style of event, whether they are die-hard vintage enthusiasts or not.

There were around 20 attendees at our picnic, and we spent a lovely sunny afternoon sitting on the grass under the dappled shade of trees, eating lovely picnic food and having a gay old time: Angel Cake, Strawberry Pie, Milk Lemonade, Tea Sandwiches, plus Games and General Genteel Conversation.

I won't go into scads of detail here, as I'm going to write a very thorough post about 'How To Throw a Vintage Picnic Party' with complete instructions for decorations, recipes, games, etc, but for now I just wanted to get some pictures up for you to see. Enjoy!

A lovely day for a picnic under a tree!

I used a vintage steamer trunk and a
white linen tablecloth for the main 'table'

Pastel coloured balloons decorate the branches of our selected tree

My grandmother's 2-tier serving plate with
roast beef and horseradish tea sandwiches

I made two Angel Food cakes to have as birthday cake.
I don't like to ice Angel Food cakes (I serve them with strawberry sauce),
so I decorated them with fresh roses from my garden.

Old-fashioned homemade 'milk lemonade' served in lovely china teacups

Strawberry pie and old-fashioned sugar candies

I provided a selection of vintage reading material
(yup, that's an Esquire from the late '40s,
complete with bikini-girl pull out centrefold!)

Wooden badminton rackets, and some
'not very vintage' plastic hoops for hoop rolling

Next to the wicker picnic basket is an old wooden valve radio that I brought for general theming. We had an iPod tucked discreety away playing a selection of 1920s music

Brence and Neil have a hoop rolling race

I can't tell you how excited I am that this is the man I get to call my boyfriend

Badminton, anyone?

A competitive round of pétanque

Croquet (that's me trying to look like I've done this before!)

Laura shows off her colour-coordinated croquet outfit