BEX IN COLOUR

A Rainbow Birthday Afternoon Tea (for grown ups)

Bex
on
17 October 2025
Rainbow Macarons on a white dish on a colourful table of birthday treats.

For my 41st birthday I decided I wanted a very pretty rainbow themed afternoon tea. So I made it happen in my dining room.

Of course it was a good excuse to buy a cute rainbow teapot and use all my platters too!

Rainbow Macarons on a white dish on a colourful table of birthday treats.

I got some delicious macarons from Crow Kitchen in all the colours of the rainbow, spent hours making rainbow jellies, baked salted caramel cupcakes to decorate with rainbows and sprinkles, created a rainbow fruit platter and enlisted my MIL to make scones and sausage rolls.

To brighten up the whole table I created a rainbow centrepiece with mini vases of different coloured flowers. I had collected all the vases for our wedding and also used them for our parents’ joint Ruby wedding anniversary so it was nice to use them all together again.

(The Christmas decorations were still up as my birthday is before New Year!)

About Bex

Hi, I’m Bex, I'm a photographer, dentist and mum of twins living in Sussex, England. I'm obsessed with colour and have far too many hobbies - including writing, hence this blog!

A happy white woman with brown hair is posing in front of a yellow backdrop and smiling, She is wearing a rainbow striped strappy dress and yellow earrings and has her hands in her pockets.