Fabulous Charity Ball for Born Free

I will be attending an amazing charity ball in aid of the charity 'Born Free', it is a wonderful charity. My dance teacher Val has organised this Ball for 11 years and has raised a phenomenal amount of money for it;it is something so close to her heart and a big heart it is at that!

I will be auctioning off a celebration cake as part of the huge and exciting auction that takes place, one of the prizes is afternoon tea at the Ritz!



I really hope you will come along and help raise money for a great cause. It will be an evening of dinner, entertainment and of course my favourite thing of all time... old time dancing! and of course there is dad dancing aloud its not strictly ball room! There is also a live band and a stream of entertainment all through the night with a chance to win £100 whilst you eat, brilliant, I hope that's me!

It is on the 12th June which is a Saturday evening and will be held at Pride Park Stadium, hence its name Pride in the Park. To book your tickets all you need to do is visit the Born Free site at this link

I hope to see you there, it really will be an amazing night.

Hazy, summer days

Another Vintage and Cake production...

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Vintage picnics

A vintage picnic - what a romantic, original way to propose to your loved one! Just picture a lovely sunny day, a picnic basket filled with delicious food and sparkling wine, bunting in the trees and no sound apart from the birds and perhaps a babbling brook nearby, ok sorry that was a little cheesy but still very lovely!



I am now offering a vintage picnic service, you can hire all of my lovely vintage china to take on your picnic, plus a set up service at the location of your choice (or ours if you wish!) and gorgeous food too; consisting of salmon and cream cheese bellinis, sandwiches with a choice of 3 fillings, a cupcake, a pot of tea, milk and sugar, scones with jam and cream, elderflower cordial and a punnet of fresh strawberries. All you need to do is chat to us about your menu and we can put it together for you.







All of the fruit is home grown by us at the Vintage and Cake allotment and everything will of course be home made, so you can guarantee fresh, lovely, home baked tastes.




It is a novel way to propose to your loved one or even for a hen do, no matter what your occasion a vintage picnic is the way to do it this summer.

A Vintage and Cake production

Very short and sweet, please have a nose at Vintage and Cake's first video

Beautiful wedding favour ideas

I thought I would write about wedding favours today as I want to shout about two lovely companies who have some gorgeous favours and ideas for packaging them up for your guests. Let me start with a little bit of history for you as I think we all take this age old tradition a little bit for granted;

The tradition of giving wedding favours is a very old one. It is believed that the first wedding favour, common amongst European aristocrats, was known as a bonbonniere. A bonbonniere is a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, and/or precious stones. The contents of these precious boxes were generally sugar cubes or delicate confections, which symbolize wealth and royalty.

As sugar became more affordable, bonbonnieres were replaced with almonds. For centuries, almonds were commonly given to wedding guests to signify well wishes on the bridegroom’s new life.

Today, gifts to guests are commonly known as wedding favours and are shared in cultures worldwide. Wedding favours are diverse and usually complement the theme or season of the event.

Mandy at Shug Toscana has some simply beautiful Italian inspired wedding favour boxes in her range, plus you have the option of filling them with her Tuscan beauty products, any guest would be thrilled!



Kate Aspen has just launched their UK company and let me tell you it is fabulous. Laura who works for the company has been kind enough to share some of her favourites with me for this blog. I love the Doves and the Tea for two (of course I do its tea related)





Lots of the brides I am working with for their vintage weddings are providing their guests with home brewed beer for the men and jars of homemade jam for the ladies, this is just so lovely, I found the photo below at a delightful blog, you can find it here



and for the men... Photo found here

Pretty vintage teacups and saucers

Hello, I am very excited as I have found lots of gorgeous vintage china recently and I cant wait to showcase it at my next event which will be a wedding fair on the 20th April held at the Hallmark Hotel in Derby. I will be there from 6pm with my vintage wares, I already have 4 brides coming along to see me as they are all having vintage weddings, so I am very much looking forward to meeting with them and having a chat about what sorts of things they can hire.



I also have lots of lovely vintage tablecloths and napkins available to hire; my lovely mum is pretty nifty with a sewing machine (that one was lost on me) so she made me quite a few napkins from vintage material, she has also become rather partial to eBay, so she has been winning lots of bids like a mad woman to accumulate a nice little linen collection for Vintage and Cake. Oh and I must mention as well that she is busy working away in her little cottage in West Wales making me some wonderful bunting, hurray for mums!

If you are getting married soon then please do pop down to the Hallmark Hotel on the 20th April (next Tuesday evening) and come and chat to me.



My next blog will be all about wedding favours, with some lovely pictures to share with you.

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