My daughter was turning five and we had done all the princessy stuff and character parties already. Like me she is extremely girly. i was so tired of going to all these character parties with candy filles treat bags, clowns and pinatas, that we decided to give an expereince. We decided on a Tea party for girls. The invitations were an actual story entitled Genesis' First Tea Party' and it was personalized for each childwith the day and time modeled after the actual book. " It was a nice suny afternoon and genesis of newyork sat on the porch and lisen to her mom tell the story of queen victoria's first tea party. as she listened she began to think she would like to have a tea party of her very own........fastforwarding......."Genesis sat at the table and began to think and write down what she wanted. "I would like to invite my freind (child's name) we can have the party at (name of place and address). "i will have an evening tea at (time and date) so on........  The invitations were a great hit. Along with the invitations i sent out prestamed RSVP card(the stamps were an actual picture of her in her tea dress a bit costly spent $40 for 20 stamps but worth it)We also sent with the invitations info. about 3 registeries we had created for our daughter (toys r us target and the more expensive neiman marcus geared only for family and godparents. Although appreciated we were tired of receiving gifts that weren't practical or duplicated. We received all yes from the 20 girls we had invited. My husband and i booked a hall with 2 floors we we can have adults and food downstairs and the kids upstairs. Two weeks before the event we sent out the all the girls invited dress code and the importance of being on time.Strictly no tiaras. The girls were told to were gowns.On the actual day the hall was decorated beautifully. the colors were pink white and burgandy. We used real white tableclothes  pink and bugandy tea setspink chair tiebacks on white ballroom chairs with pink cushions teapot placesettings real flowers as centerpieces. We used lots of light fabric to drape the hall and lots of balloons. We served icetea and cookies and cheese sandwishes. We had the girls seated 10 on each side straight down the middle. Surrounding them were every imaginable candydesert appetizer all in matching colors and ofcouse the parents. To get started we annouced each girl one by one and had almost a fashion show then my daughter came in last. We got her gown from MARYS bridal. We then had a lady teach the girl a lesson in manners and tea etiquette which was a great hit with the parents. We had teapot shape take away boxes everthing was within the theme. After serving the kids (we baked marcaroni pie in cupcake pans and served with chicken) then their parents( mac.pie stew chicken bake chicken rice roti ect) It was time to stuff bears. we had 12 inch bears for each girl. We created stations one for stuffing one for naming and signing birth certificate and one for dressing. Each girl got the same beautiful dress for her bear just different colors.We had a photographer on site who captued the excitement of both the girls and their parents who were so involved. We even had games for parents word search and unscramble the words all relating to the theme in which the winner would take home a special prize for her girl.Next we had sticking of the cake we had two a teddybear cake and the big hit was the cake made like a table then fondant was used to make the tablecloth and the teasets that was place ontop pink and white it was beautiful. After dancing up a storm we gave the girls personalized gifts bags (since my daughter had favorite friends who got alittle more) The bags contained and actual miniture teaset lipgloss books hair accessories a baby bear and much more stuff. And as thank you we had our daughter give silver bracelets with tea pots charms to each girl. The night was a great success cost a great penny but worth it. since then we have had many people request the same party My daughter is now planning her 6th birthday slumber party theme American girl and wants doll for all 10 girls we gonna invite...lol already and we already have tons of requests from parents to have their kids invited.    "