Popular Kitchen Tea Invitations

Time For a Kitchen Tea Party!

Gather the girls, ring your mum and assemble your aunts, it’s time for wedding festivi-teas to begin! Browse our selection of kitchen tea invitations on Zazzle to rally the forces. You’ll find professional designs from independent artists, from fabulous florals to more modern marbles and watercolour. You just need to add the details of your event to your chosen template. Your invitations will be printed on a choice of six shapes and twelve beautiful paper types, from linen to felt to champagne shimmer.

Why Have a Kitchen Tea?

Traditionally, a kitchen tea was a pre-wedding celebration when female friends and family members would give the bride items for her kitchen and advice on how to be the perfect housewife. Since this is the twenty-first century and most engaged couples are already living together (with fully stocked and equally shared kitchens), isn’t this a bit old-fashioned? Yes, but it’s still a nice way to include older relatives who might not fancy a wild night out, and for everyone to have some fun and food together! But if you want to keep the housework completely out of it, you might prefer to throw a bridal shower with our bridal shower invitations.

Kitchen Tea Ideas

There are plenty of fun ways to hold a modern kitchen tea, still with a nod to the tradition. So if you’re a bridesmaid or planning your own party, here our some of our favourite kitchen tea themes, ideas and games:

• Embrace the old-fashioned side and hark back to the 1950s with a rockabilly theme. Everyone dresses up with big skirts and pin-curls. Announce the occasion with vintage invitations.
• Throw a Mad Hatter, Alice In Wonderland inspired event in the garden. Set the tables with mismatched crockery, pile up the cakes and you can even ask guests to wear a hat!
• Invite everyone to bring over a homemade dish, and then to share the details on recipe cards printed on Zazzle. Limit it to cakes, add an element of competition and make it a bake-off!
• Alternatively get the girls out and about on a food-themed adventure. Book a cooking class, do a tour of local foodie hotspots or visit a vineyard for a wine tasting.
• Play kitchen tea games like bridal bingo, mad libs or ‘How Well Do You Know the Groom’. You could even set up a full scavenger hunt with prizes and penalities.
• Kitchen Tea or Hen’s Night? We say both! You could have them on the same day with one running on to the other, or plan a completely different event with hen’s night invitations.