Matilda is Six
Vendor guide · the walled garden
If you are reading only one part
- Caterer
- Read the allergy note below before anything else. One guest, Rufus, age
five, has a severe nut allergy. Then: cake is cut at 3:30, after the treasure hunt —
not before, because the hunt is the thing she has been planning.
- Florist / garden
- The palette, and one rule: everything on the paper is
watercolour, so nothing you bring should be flat or plastic. The garden already supplies
the reference — espaliered pears, long grass paths, a working greenhouse. Strawberries are the
motif and they are the garden's own.
- Stylist / set-up
- Tea on trestles in the strawberry corner. Please keep it to the honey
stone and the greenery — no balloon arches, no confetti bursts, no foil. The brief is a
Beatrix Potter tea party, not a party-supply catalogue.
- Photographer
- The stationery list is the shot list. Worth a frame: the envelope being
opened by a child, the favour tags tied onto the jam jars, and Jam the rabbit — he is hidden
somewhere on every single piece and finding him is half the point.
The event
- Date
- Saturday, 12 September 2026
- From
- Two o'clock · cake at half past three
- Where
- The Walled Garden at Foxcote House
Chipping Campden
- The garden
- An eighteenth-century Cotswold walled kitchen garden — honey-coloured stone,
espaliered pear trees, long grass paths and a working greenhouse. It belongs to Matilda's
grandparents; she has picked strawberries there every summer of her life.
- Guests
- 38
- Dress
- Garden party
- Replies by
- 14 August 2026
The visual identity at a glance
Typefaces: Fraunces for the name and the age, Lora for everything else.
Buttercream is the paper and the ground of everything; Bracken Ink is every word. The leaf, the
strawberry and the buttercup are painted, never printed flat — they are watercolour, so they
vary across a piece, and that variation is the point rather than a fault to correct.
Match to the printed piece, not to these squares. These are screen values, and a watercolour
never has one value anyway — a strawberry is three or four reds across its own width. If you are
matching ribbon, cloth or icing, hold the real card, and match to the middle of the colour rather than
to the number.
Stationery arriving
| Piece | Trim | Quantity |
|---|
| Invitation | A5 portrait, corner-rounded | one per child |
| Envelope + liner | to envelope size | as invitations |
| Welcome signage | 24 × 36″ | 1 |
| Menu card | 4 × 9″ | 42 |
| Place cards | 2 × 3.5″ folded | 42 |
| Favour tags | small tag | 42 — one per jam jar |
| Thank you card | 4.25 × 5.5″ | one per household |
Counts are 38 guests plus a proofing
margin. The invitation is addressed to the child, by name, not to the parents — Matilda insists,
and the envelope count follows the children rather than the households.
Day-of notes
Allergy — read this first. One guest, Rufus, age 5, has a severe nut allergy. The jam
biscuits are to be plated separately, and the menu card marks nut items clearly. If anything
is added to the table that is not on the printed menu, it must be checked and marked before it goes
out.
- Jam the rabbit
- Jam appears somewhere on every single piece — a paw print, a
silhouette, him stealing a strawberry. He is hidden rather than announced, and finding him is part
of the gift. Please do not enlarge him, move him to the front of anything, or leave him off a piece
you produce.
- The invitation
- Goes to the children by name, not to their parents. Matilda was
specific and she is right — it is the reason the envelope is worth opening.
- The treasure hunt
- Runs before the cake. Cake is cut at 3:30, after it. The hunt is
the part she planned herself, so please do not compress it to keep to a schedule.
- Favour tags
- Tie onto small jars of strawberry jam made from the garden's own fruit. The
tags are sized for a jar neck, not for a bag handle.
- Material
- Digital offset on uncoated natural stock, corner-rounded, with a printed
envelope liner. Nothing laminated and nothing that shines — the watercolour has to sit into the
paper the way paint does.
Please do not
- No licensed cartoon characters of any kind.
- No neon or primary-crayon colour schemes.
- No balloon-arch or confetti-burst motifs.
- No glitter textures or metallic party foil.
- No rounded bubble fonts.
- Nothing that could appear on a supermarket party plate.
The family's own list. The standard they gave us:
“a Beatrix Potter tea party art-directed by Luke Edward Hall — joy with proper manners”, and
the test — the children squeal when the envelope arrives, and the grandmothers keep the invitation on
the mantelpiece afterwards.
Questions about anything on this sheet
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