Afternoon Tea Parties

Have you got a special day to celebrate?

Are you looking for a unique venue that can offer you sole exclusivity?

We have the venue for you,  seating up to 46 within the park in Dronfield.  Our vintage inspired Tearooms are the ideal place to celebrate your event.

We have been bringing bespoke catering and successful event staging since 2010.  We love to put on a party and with our beautiful vintage china tea services and waitress service and delicious afternoon catering, we can guarantee that you will have the best party ever!

We offer our Afternoon Teas at £12.00 per person and also have a resident pianist available to play (Subject to availability) at extra cost

Why not call us for availability now

TELEPHONE 07906549694

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Healthy New Start to the Year

We are well into the New Year and it’s all about low sugar, low fat, low carbs, low salt, so we have introduced a range of vegetable based cakes cutting down on sugars and helping to keep you healthier and …

Gentleman’s Afternoon Teas

Looking back in history at the Afternoon tea it was for the ladies but what about the menfolk who accompanied the ladies and needed to eat? We have designed a Afternoon tea just for the gentleman .Sausage and caramelised onion …

The Dronfield Wedding Fair

Calling all Brides and Grooms.  We’ll  be holding Dronfield’s first  Wedding Fair at The Peel Centre, High Street, in Dronfield on September 14.

http://www.peelcentre.org/

The Fair starts at 11am and has many of Derbyshire’s wedding suppliers who will be there to give you top advice and explain what they offer for your special day.  With free entry and lots to see.  Why not put the event in your diary and afterwards relax at our pop up tea party where delicious tea and cakes will be on sale.

If you have another celebration why not pop in as our suppliers can offer their services for every event

Looking forward to seeing you

 

 

A Vintage Wedding

Last week, We had the privilege of bringing our Vintage wedding catering and equipment to the wedding of Jenny Donnelly and Paul Larkins.  We had the first of our wedding consultations with the bride and groom, last year and it was obvious from the start that this would be a very personalised and creative wedding as Jenny, the bride is extremely talented, sewing her own clothes and creating gifts from up-cycled fabrics and buttons.  Paul, hubby is a professional photographer and runs his own company and so with their combined love of vintage we set about planning what to make, that would add more vintage input to their day.

I commissioned a lovely piece of button art designed and made by local artist Emma  as a gift for the couple.  I love the work by Emma and as Jenny mentioned she was going to include buttons in her theme it was an obvious choice for me.

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Next we discussed the wedding afternoon tea and as the couple wanted a vegetarian tea we all agreed on the following menu

Earl Grey Tea

Sandwiches of:

Herb and cream cheese

French Brie and Cranberry

Avocado on seeded bread

Roasted garlic, beetroot and feta on spelt bread pizza

Scones, clotted cream and our strawberry preserves

Earl grey and lemon ‘button’ teapot biscuits

A variety of our fruit frangipane’s

A selection of our home-made cakes from our boutique bakery

All to be served on our vintage china, table linens, napkins, cake stands and vintage cutlery.

We created little menu cards with dried lavender and rose clips with hanging tags, these were hand written on cath kidston cards.

 

 

The venue was at the beautifully restored Springfield  Hall, Sandiacres.

http://springfieldhall.co.uk/

A unique venue hidden for the past 50 years and now beautifully decorated in a neutral colour that lends well to any celebration.  Situated next to the canal this  adds to the photographic  opportunities and allows a lovely area for guests to spill out to on a warm evening.

 

We started sewing even more bunting to fit the inside and outside of the hall.  In co-ordinating colourways to blend in with our extensive collection of 200 vintage china teacups and saucers and accessories, we excitingly got out the vintage singer sewing machine and gave ‘Suzy’ a good run with the fabric

Suzy
Our singer sewing machine

 

Over three hundred feet of bunting was sewn and we thank Ashley at Springfield hall for getting up on the ladders to put it all up!

 

 

See our next blog for lots more photographs of the day

To buy or not to buy – hiring is the vintage question

To buy or not to buy – Vintage china?

Hiring vintage china by Vintage Rose Catering

 

 

Whatever type of wedding you have chosen, vintage china can enhance the table display and make for a memorable day.  If you have decided that your wedding theme includes vintage china you need to choose between buying or hiring a large quantity.  When looking to buy vintage china you need to have lots of available time to seek out the china tea sets from places like vintage shops, antique fairs, vintage fairs, auction houses, car boot sales and charity shops.  It will take a lot of time to find huge quantities and you need to focus on the colours you require and set out to get a collection in similar colour-ways or designs to suit your theme.  It is not guaranteed that you will find exactly what you are looking for so be flexible in your choices.  Expect to pay anywhere from £5 – £15 depending on the make of the pottery for a set of tea-cup, saucer and plate.  If you have a large wedding party of 100 – 150 guests this will cost a lot.  You will need to consider sandwich plates, cakes stands, sugar bowls, jugs and teapots too.  Expect around £600 – £1000.00 for this budget depending on your wedding party numbers.  Examine all pieces very carefully as aged items often suffer wear and tear but this is part of the charm, but do not purchase any items that are chipped or cracked, some sets will have missing items so miss and match to disguise this.   You will need to re sell the items afterwards which again will take time and effort or why not donate them to your favourite charity.

If you choose to hire the items you will save time in searching for everything, save money on the whole cost of buying everything – here at Vintage Rose Catering, we offer great package deals on wedding hire which saves  money and can deliver, set up the tables with the china at a small charge and take everything away dirty saving time on washing up as most hotels and venues will not wash these delicate items for fear of breakages.  Every hire company will charge for damages so check their hire terms and conditions before booking.  Please also ask for styling charges this is a useful option to take saving  time but also more importantly let you see the final table display and enables for changes beforehand in plenty of time.

So hopefully you have chosen which option you will take and have a beautiful table display enhanced by delicate vintage china above all have a beautiful wedding whatever the theme.   Please take a look at our wedding pages and other services on our website

http://vintagerosecatering.com/

Style your vintage wedding on a budget

If you are planning a vintage style wedding what better way to dress the interior with vintage fabric bunting, beautiful table linens, cloths and of course vintage china with delicate cake stands piled high with fresh pastries, cakes and dainty sandwiches.  Bring in glasses and glass vases with flowers and tea lights and you have a beautiful vintage look.  Trail the car boots and vintage fairs for inspiration and bargains.  Hire vintage china and set the event for an afternoon of glamour and elegance.

We have been providing vintage china and accessories to Derbyshire and Yorkshire regions since 2010 and have a range of over 200 place settings of great designs and colours.  To save you a fortune, we have created packages with everything you should need to stage your vintage afternoon tea wedding.  Get your friends to create your wedding stationary and create favours with your friends using scraps of favourite fabric cutting out hearts or favourite shapes and stuffing with lavender or other pot pourri.  Get family to bake biscuits and ice for biscuit favours.  This will save you a fortune and be such fun

Our special packages for vintage china hire is now very affordable.

Get a great deal package for up to 20 people for £50 this includes

10-20 Tea cups and saucers

-20 side plates

10-20 cake forks and teaspoons

2-4 Milk jugs

2-4 sugar bowl

1-4 Vintage tablecloth

2-4 Vintage Teapots

up to 4 x 3 tier cake stand

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Get a great deal package for  35 people  for £80.00

Get a great deal package for 50 people for £120.00

Get a great deal package for 75 people for £160.00

Get a great deal package for 100 people for £200.00

Click on link below for our individual items price list

http://vintagerosecatering.com/