On Friday April 29th, my mum and I hosted 10 ladies to a Tiaras and Pajamas Breakfast to watch William and Kate tie the knot. The spread consisted of homemade scones with clotted cream and black currant jam, smoked salmon and capers on homemade bagels, bacon and cheese homemade quiche, fresh fruit and numerous bottles of Prosecco to toast to the happy couple.
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| Our Invitation to Breakfast |
We started the morning with a lot of freshly brewed
Blue Mountain coffee (extremely necessary caffeine at 4:00am) and cozied up in front of the television.
For viewing, we went back and forth between BBC (English station) and NBC (American station) and the comparison was like day and night. The English broadcasters were tame, modest and unobtrusive; it was very similar to the commentary at a cricket match. NBC's broadcasting on the other hand was lavish, and over the top; they had lip readers, the two balcony kisses compared on screen, trumpet music, adverts and the overall commentary similar to that of the Oscar's red carpet. We preferred BBC but ultimately they complimented each other.
The men in our lives thought that we were mad to get up that early and make such a fuss, but this is our kind of sport: wedding dresses, horse drawn carriages, princesses and princes, fairytales, and happy endings.
It was nice to entertain at the crack of dawn and have a room filled with like minded individuals, each contributing to the conversation and genuinely happy to be there watching the Royal Wedding together.
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Freshly baked scone (made by my cousin Jessica) with clotted cream and black currant jam... YUM!
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Mum and Aunty Jacqui sipping tea
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Fresh watermelon on an Earthworks Pottery platter
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My good bud Ann-Marie and I
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