Husband making an afternoon tea - light-hearted

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Dh asked me what I wanted for valentines day and I asked him for a proper afternoon tea. He's got the Internet, ingredients and an M&S at the bottom of the street. It's for 4 (us and kids) and for around 4.i have prosecco in the fridge and I'm veggie.
What do you think I'll get?

cucumber sandwiches, egg and cress sandwiches and scones!

I think you'll get a really lovely afternoon with your family 😁

I think it sounds a wonderful idea. i am about to go and look at what we have in to see if we can do something similar!

Percy Pigs? M&S have some lovely little macarons in pretty colours and flavours so hopefully those.

The meal deal for two and all four of you share. I only want to see what happens

Going from experience, probably something with beans and oven chips

What a superb idea.

Now in my dreams, I would be getting a home-made cake, with billowing clouds of whipped cream, tiny wild strawberries (in Feb?!) and a dusting of icing sugar. There would be elegant savoury pastry things, hot out of the oven and melt in the mouth. Champagne would be chilled and there would be tea in a big, beautiful china teapot because I like that too!

Reality would probably be some individual pork pies, a packet of scones with spread and a squirty cream and an instant coffee. However, as it is the thought that counts and it would be done with love, that would be just fine

We're doing the same but we're all chipping in, DD has made cheese scones and is doing sweet ones later, DH has made brownies, I'm doing sandwiches and mini Victoria sponges with DS. Rest of it we've bought from iceland!

I'm loving these and sharing with dh. He's not bad in kitchen but is worried about getting it wrong. No cakes will be homemade as I'm the Baker, but he'll try and it will be a nice family activity, something different. I've put on a new bra and proper top and jeans as well!

He's come home with rainbow tulips, baklava, mini fruit merangines, and seed bread. I know we've got scones so he's got a great start :-)

I wonder if he will go finger sandwiches or triangles. Always a dilemma.
Will you post a pic of the final product?

OK he made it for lunch, not tea but that's OK. We had finger sandwiches (egg, brie and ham for the meat eaters), sausage rolls, cheese and onion rolls, scones, little merangines cakes and baklava. Prosecco for me and pop for everyone else. The dining room table was cleared of school stuff so we could be civilised. 10/10

Also there's crusts and ends left over so I'll be making bread and butter pudding.

Oh how lovely! DH has his birthday in a few weeks and im ordering a delivery for afternoon tea. Cant wait!

Ooh that's lovely!

How lovely.
My (adult) dc made me one for Mothers Day last year. It was lovely.

I'm hankering after an afternoon tea now.

sounds immense we're doing a tesco meal deal type thing. forgot how faffy they are with timings. looks nice though.

I had an afternoon tea delivered for me and my daughters today. Was lovely.

I did one yesterday - mostly from M&S. Scones with jam and cream, victoria sponge sandwich, mini Quiche, heart shaped mini chocolates etc.

That sounds lovely. Very thoughtful and he put a decent bit of effort in.

That sounds absolutely lovely OP.

Very nice OP! We had afternoon tea takeaway today from the hotel we should have been staying at this weekend (rolled over from our December anniversary, now rolled over until god knows when).

It made a nice change and now we're laying on the sofa like 2 little pigs wrapped in a blanket.

Lovely.