Our Royal Wedding celebration - with its seagulls, pasties and cream teas - was perhaps more cliff path party than street party, situated as it was overlooking Mawgan Porth Beach and the Atlantic Ocean.
It had all the best elements of a traditional street party, though, with an added Bedruthan twist.
Bunting billowed in the gentle sea breeze. Sunlight - glinting off the waves below - dazzled us. Even the seagulls seemed suitably reverend about the occasion with the Union Jacks, fluttering overhead, keeping them at a respectful distance from the food.
Ah, the food.
Spread out over red gingham covered tables - platter after delectable platter of pasties, mixed foraged leaf salads, baked ham hock, poached salmon, Jemima Puddleduck eggs with saffron and lemon mayonnaise, English jellies and trifles, mini meringues and scones with strawberry jams, rhubarb Victoria sponges…
Guests and members of the Bedruthan team gathered together to watch the screening of the ceremony, sipping our specially mixed Bedruthan Royal Wedding tipple and waving their Union Jacks.
Once the ceremony was over, the newly weds were safely back at Buckingham Palace and the balcony kiss had taken place, we all made our way outside for our Bedruthan style street party, winding our way along a path made up of beach windbreakers. Hotel director Debbie Wakefield snipped the red ribbon and some good old fashioned British marching band music got the party started.
After the traditional British and Cornish fayre it was time for some traditional British fun - games of skittles on the lawn, tug-of-war and face painting.
The guests carried on the party while the Bedruthan team went back to work - after a sneaky peak at replays of the balcony kiss.
It had all the best elements of a traditional street party, though, with an added Bedruthan twist.
Bunting billowed in the gentle sea breeze. Sunlight - glinting off the waves below - dazzled us. Even the seagulls seemed suitably reverend about the occasion with the Union Jacks, fluttering overhead, keeping them at a respectful distance from the food.
Ah, the food.
Spread out over red gingham covered tables - platter after delectable platter of pasties, mixed foraged leaf salads, baked ham hock, poached salmon, Jemima Puddleduck eggs with saffron and lemon mayonnaise, English jellies and trifles, mini meringues and scones with strawberry jams, rhubarb Victoria sponges…
Guests and members of the Bedruthan team gathered together to watch the screening of the ceremony, sipping our specially mixed Bedruthan Royal Wedding tipple and waving their Union Jacks.
Once the ceremony was over, the newly weds were safely back at Buckingham Palace and the balcony kiss had taken place, we all made our way outside for our Bedruthan style street party, winding our way along a path made up of beach windbreakers. Hotel director Debbie Wakefield snipped the red ribbon and some good old fashioned British marching band music got the party started.
After the traditional British and Cornish fayre it was time for some traditional British fun - games of skittles on the lawn, tug-of-war and face painting.
The guests carried on the party while the Bedruthan team went back to work - after a sneaky peak at replays of the balcony kiss.
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