Tea Etiquette

"I wanted to thank you for participating in our "tea" event ….WOW what fun!"
- Donna

No doubt about it: there seems to be a crisis in manners - or a lack thereof. Gail Christensen, founder of GC Millinery & Tea in Lake Mills, has developed her business based on the current need for manners education. She gives millinery tea parties – and not just for children – complete with a "tea etiquette" lecture and elegant hats for the tea goers to wear (which may be purchased at her trunk shows), while sipping their tea.

"If children can be in a place where they're nicely dressed. . . they have something to eat, there are manners presented, and they see people being kind, and speaking softly to each other, this can give them the sense of a place to find peace in themselves, and to gain their own confidence in the world."

Junior Girl Scout Troop 306 of Mt Horeb Wisc. put together a true tea party event to help 50 Brownies who attended earn their "Manners Try-It", and receive a tea party patch.

GC Millinery provides a tea etiquette lecture – a light talk on how to behave at a tea - and the hats, which range from the outrageous to the elegant and can be worn according to taste.

"I see manners as an impeccable kind of strength and power. Kids that have manners and know that they have them…are always comfortable wherever they are."
Text courtesy of Sarah Steed, Wisc. State Journal – Quotes from Gail Christensen

For further details on booking Gail for tea etiquette events please call 920-648-5476 or email: [email protected].