The Party of the Century!

I forgot to report back about the Hen Party I helped with the Saturday before last. It was a complete success! The girls really got involved in their tasks of creating a traditional tapas selection. I'm still waiting for the photos of the finished results but you can have a look at the decoration before the mayhem descended!

Dinner Table & Pink Champagne

Cocktail Corner

Then Saturday gone was THE BIG PARTY, the one my friend Jen and I have been planning for the last two months for her hubby's 40th birthday and their 10th wedding anniversary. We went shopping on the Wednesday and spent the next three days cooking, cooking and cooking some more!

It was a fabulous evening, far too much went on for me to write all about it so I'll let you sit back and enjoy the photos ....

Little Helpers

Mini Quiches

Beautiful Cupcakes

Strawberry Cheesecake

Afternoon Tea Tent

You can't have a Garden Party without Triangle Sandwiches & Pimms!

The Anniversary Cake

The 40th Porsche Birthday Cake

The Lovely Couple

Champagne at Midnight

Planning the Party of the Year

A fellow expat who I met through a mutual friend and have kept in touch with over FB likes and comments, recently got in touch to ask me if I would like to help her plan a garden party. I love a plan so I jumped at it (and there's wine & food involved!) It's for her husband's 40th birthday and their 10th wedding anniversary.

We got to putting our heads together to come up with the menu, decorations, guest lists etc etc and then she asked me if I would like to be "chef in the home" for her friend's hen party. Again, I love a plan! So I'm currently in the throws of planning the two parties, and they are only a week apart; the hen party being this Saturday. I like a challenge! So I've put the finishing touches to the menu for Saturday's we've decided on tapas and I'm salvating over all the fabulous tapas dishes on the internet, if you could get fat by looking at photos of food I'd be the size of the Statue of Liberty by now, and a fat one at that!

Fingers crossed all goes well, I shall report back at the weeknd. Exciting times :)